TY  - CONF
A1  - Delke, Vincent
A1  - Schiele, Holger
A1  - Buchholz, Wolfgang
T1  - Identifying Future Skills Requirements: Differentiating between Direct and Indirect Material Purchasers
T2  - Proceedings 29th IPSERA conference
N2  - The global development towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the so-called Industry 4.0, is steaming forwards. Where cyber-physical systems connect the physical and digital world, allowing for demand identification, without the need for direct human intervention. Further, Artificial Intelligence supports various parts of operative and strategic purchasing. The new purchasing environment forces purchasing professionals to develop new skills. Research is needed to identify appropriate skill sets. Based on a World-Café method with 82 purchasing professionals, a list of 32 essential future skills in purchasing is composed. Further, the identified skills are ranked and assigned to the roles of the direct and indirect material purchasers.
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://www.hb.fh-muenster.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13328
ER  -