The use of organizational design features in purchasing and supply management.

Of the myriad ways organizations give chase to competitive advantage in their endow management efforts, the most for the use of all are outsourcing, supplier development or strategic alliances and partnerships. Rarely mentioned, however, is the more mundane topic of organizational design. omit for cross-functional teaming, organizational design has received limited attention from store management researchers.

Organizational design is a broad conception referring to the process of assessing and selecting the arrangement and formal system of communication, division of labor, coordination, superintendence authority and responsibility required to achieve an organization's goals (Hamel and Pralahad 1994) individual way to think about an organization's design is as