1. Purchasing maturity levels

Your role as a buyer is traditionally to ensure the supply of the inputs required for the company's activity, at the lowest possible cost. The last ten years have seen Purchasing take on greater importance to maintain the competitive advantage of "cost": the concentration of companies on their "core business" has resulted in an increase in the share of external supplies and services, often reaching over 60% of sales in industry (source: IRIA 2010 study by Cdaf and AgileBuyer). With the globalization of trade, the purchasing profession has become spectacularly professionalized. But this trend is not uniform: depending on the sector, the country, the size of the company... the maturity of Purchasing varies widely.

No matter how professional you are, there are few who cannot innovate by reaching a higher level in each of the following dimensions:

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