The Various Form of Purchasing in the Partnership Strategies

This article describes the different partnership strategies in the purchasing The paper compares the different customer-supplier relationships from the point of view of purchasing and deals with virtual companies in particular. Also, the contribution traces the architecture of the virtual organisations and analyses their advantages and disadvantages. The world of practice reveals that through the course of time, and in dependency upon the concrete demands, different partnership strategies evolve in logistics networks. These may be classified accordingly. We will examine the consequences, which appear gradually, upon the length and intensity of the cooperation among companies in a logistics network and derive some plausible future scenarios. For the duration and intensity of cooperation within a logistics network, there are various strategies of partnership. The present contribution focuses upon four strategies in particular, namely, the ‘traditional’ customer–supplier relationship, supply management, supply chain management, and virtual organizations.