Specifying roles in purchasing and supply management in the era of Industry 4.0: A Delphi study
- New technologies and systems within the field of purchasing and supply management (PSM) call forth responsibilities and require expertise. Moving towards Industry 4.0 in purchasing, increasing attention on specialization within talent and skills, where human capital is needed to exploit the full potential of technologies. Based on an internet-based real-time Delhi study with 47 experts within the PSM field, six future purchasing roles have been defined and elaborated. These future roles connect to the maturing and emerging technologies within the purchasing field and provide a guideline to further develop towards Industry 4.0 in purchasing based on a human-centered evolutionary approach.
| Author: | Vincent DelkeORCiD, Wolfgang Buchholz, Holger Schiele |
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| Parent Title (English): | 28th EurOMA conference: Managing the “new normal”: The future of Operations and Supply Chain Management in unprecedented times |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/07/05 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/07/05 |
| Provider of the Publication Server: | FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences |
| Release Date: | 2021/09/17 |
| Faculties: | Wirtschaft (MSB) |
| Publication list: | Buchholz, Wolfgang |
| Delke, Vincent | |
| Licence (German): |  Bibliographische Daten |