TY  - CHAP
A1  - Delke, Vincent
A1  - Schiele, Holger
A1  - Buchholz, Wolfgang
T1  - Mind the Gap: Identifying Skill Gaps in Purchasing and Supply Management
T2  - Proceedings 29th IPSERA conference
N2  - Nowadays, the human-centric discipline of purchasing and supply management (PSM) is of strategic importance for firms’ success. Within the discipline, scholars address PSM professionals’ skills and provide practitioners with academic insights. Due to changes in the industry environment, changes in the working environment and the task of purchasing professionals are assumed. This paper aims to contribute to the PSM professional skills literature by defining current PSM professionals’ skill gaps as the difference between the acquired skill level and perceived skill importance. Findings show that current PSM professionals feel to be underqualified to abstract the full potential of professional relationships, as buyer-supplier relationships, due to current PSM professionals’ skill gaps.
Y1  - 2020
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
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
ER  -