International Purchasing and Global Sourcing ‐ What are the Differences?
区分国际采购与全球采购，指出多数企业尚未建立完善的全球采购策略，并强调通过研究而非传闻来理解全球采购，以帮助供应经理实现从基础国际采购向整合全球采购的转变。
SUMMARY As organizations think about the best way to respond to competitive demands, the development of global strategies and approaches, including global sourcing strategies, will become an increasingly attractive option. Since most organizations do not have in place well‐developed global sourcing strategies, improvement opportunities are indeed attractive and largely unrealized. Realizing these opportunities requires a detailed understanding of global sourcing. Achieving this understanding demands replacing anecdotal perceptions and accounts of global sourcing with research‐based findings. These findings will help supply managers better understand what it takes to shift from basic international purchasing to integrated global sourcing strategies and approaches.