Purpose

The authors empirically examine purchasing strategy typologies based on strategic intent (i.e. competitive priorities) and practices used to achieve these priorities. The authors further investigate the implementation conditions of such strategies based on perceived uncertainty and strategic purchasing.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors utilize case study data from 11 international service and manufacturing firms with global supply chains. Each company was profiled based on the level of perceived environmental uncertainty, the characteristics of strategic purchasing, the use of relevant purchasing practices and its ability to create value through purchasing.

Findings

The study findings show that four purchasing strategy types exist: Purchasing Rationalization, Supply Base Optimization, Purchasing as a Service and World-Class Supply Base Management. Lower levels of perceived environmental uncertainty favor the adoption of rationalization strategies (i.e. Purchasing Rationalization and Supply Base Optimization), while increased uncertainty leads companies to switch to relationship-focused strategies (i.e. Purchasing as a Service and World-Class Supply Base Management). Further, that specific components of strategic purchasing (i.e. strategic planning, maturity, status and report level) enable the successful implementation of different strategy types.

Originality/value

This research contributes to the existing literature by outlining the different types of purchasing strategies and the external and internal factors that need to be considered to achieve strategic alignment and value creation in purchasing, and by classifying purchasing strategy types at the functional level based on empirical evidence.

中文翻译：

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贵公司正确的采购策略是什么？战略意图、战略采购和感知环境不确定性之间的匹配

目的

作者根据战略意图（即竞争优先事项）和用于实现这些优先事项的做法，对采购战略类型进行了实证检验。作者进一步调查了基于感知不确定性和战略采购的此类战略的实施条件。

设计/方法/途径

作者利用来自 11 家拥有全球供应链的国际服务和制造公司的案例研究数据。根据感知到的环境不确定性水平、战略采购的特征、相关采购实践的使用及其通过采购创造价值的能力，对每家公司进行了分析。

发现

研究结果表明，存在四种采购策略类型：采购合理化、供应基地优化、采购即服务和世界级供应基地管理。较低水平的感知环境不确定性有利于采用合理化战略（即采购合理化和供应基地优化），而增加的不确定性导致公司转向以关系为中心的战略（即采购即服务和世界级供应基地管理）。此外，战略采购的特定组成部分（即战略规划、成熟度、状态和报告级别）能够成功实施不同的战略类型。

原创性/价值

本研究通过概述不同类型的采购策略以及在采购中实现战略调整和价值创造需要考虑的外部和内部因素，并根据实证证据在职能层面对采购策略类型进行分类，从而对现有文献做出贡献.