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Article: Sourcing teams may benefit from 12-step SET process. (Sourcing Effectiveness Team)
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- May 5, 1994
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Editors note: This is the second in a three-part series on sourcing team effectiveness. Part I looked at potential benefits and obstacles to establishing effective multi-functional sourcing teams (PUR: Mar. 17 '94; p.23); Part II looks at a proven process for establishing sourcing teams used by Integrated Strategies Inc. of East Lansing, Mich.
At companies around the nation, multifunctional sourcing teams routinely log breakthrough advances in sourcing performance. Still--as many companies have discovered--converting team theory to practice is never simple.
What is the team goal? Who will participate on a team? How will the team accomplish its goal? How will ...