摘要：Too often purchasing is seen as just an improved operational task. Due to this a lot of possibilities to use purchasing as a strategic tool for the organization are simply ignored. This article will show that purchasing could be more. The famous and well known portfolio model of Peter Kraljic will be used as starting position but the core will be to show current developments to turn this model into a strategic tool for purchasing. Also the use for this model in virtual organizations and for extended enterprises will be discussed and we will show that these organizations will profit from using this model for making decisions concerning make or buy decisions and long term relations with suppliers
关键词：purchasing; Kraljic-matrix; purchasing strategies; new concepts based on Kraljic-matrix; logistics; competencies of buyers
