But the subsidiary buys nonstrategic products for Siemens, and will sell its procurement expertise to outsiders.
Strong procurement leaders need an unusual mix of skills: they must have technical procurement expertise but they also need to control and support suppliers and staff, as well as having a talent for reputation management and internal relations.
Executives at Liz Claiborne say they think the Liz brand will thrive thanks to J. C. Penney's procurement expertise, its marketing resources and its reputation as a value-priced chain.
Finally, UNICEF regularly provides technical procurement advice, expertise and consultations as part of its mission to increase country-level procurement self-sufficiency.
In the emails, Jason Skill, in the procurement centre for expertise, discusses the motivation of the written question by Thomas, saying: "There is probably an employment and taxation angle to this question though it might not be in the mind of Mr Thomas.
If you build a cluster, you share expertise, costs, procurement and can move teachers around.
Hay Group figures show the extent of the problem for the beginning of the senior civil service, a level where lots of major projects are run and substantial procurement, technical and commercial expertise is needed.
They have expertise in procurement, contracting, logistics, freight handling, pharmacology, health product technology, quality control, financial services, logistics, engineering, human resources, construction, education and communications.
Anglo should also be able to save on central costs and procurement, and share more mining expertise.
She attributed the success of the procurement to having the right expertise and information, but says that there is a lack of information about procurement across the health service.
He has proposed a more centralised procurement process to pull together expertise across Whitehall, a college of procurement to teach such skills to the public sector (which is due to open next year), and a greater expectation that civil service project managers stay to see a project through rather than being transferred every six months.
