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Make Your Purchasing Manager a Rock Star: How Reinvention Drives Growth

Some distributors treat purchasing and procurement roles as administrators tasked with buying what the company needs to function. But you can unlock profits by rethinking purchasing and treating your purchasing manager like a rock star.

January 9, 2024

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In wholesale distribution, purchasing managers buy the products the company will stock and sell. Some think of this work as merely administrative, reduced to processing and reconciling purchase orders. It may be time now for wholesale distributors to change that thinking. Distributors should consider rethinking how to design purchasing manager roles, and recognize and reward their talent for adding value as

rockstars

in asset management. It may be time to shift from thinking of purchasing managers as “expediters” and reimagine their job description as

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