Sentence examples for purchasing operation from inspiring English sources

New York's comptroller will now be blocked from pre-auditing contracts for goods by the administration's central purchasing operation.

The remaining SE7 members, which comprise West Sussex, Kent, Hampshire, Medway and Brighton & Hove councils, will be given the opportuninity to join the collaboration once the shared purchasing operation is live.

Analysts noted that cost cuts from a global purchasing operation put in place last year had allowed Wal-Mart to use its size to buy products for less for most of its stores.

But a series of recalls in the United States and Japan over the last two years have tarnished the automaker's reputation for quality, and distressed Mr. Watanabe, who ran the company's research and development and purchasing operations before his promotion to president.

The health of Fiat, by association, affects General Motors, since G.M. owns a 20percentt stake in Fiat Auto and Fiat owns 5.6percentt of G.M. as part of a relationship that extends to sharing power-train and purchasing operations in Europe.

Chrysler officials also said that they aimed to add five more vehicle lines than planned over six years, even as they trimmed annual development costs to $6 billion from $8 billion by continuing to use more common vehicle platforms, and sharing parts and purchasing operations with the company's partners, Mercedes and Mitsubishi.

He scrapped top management, merged all purchasing operations into Cemex's central system, replaced old-fashioned ledger and handwritten accounting systems with computers and linked the operations via satellite and telephone lines to Mexico.

The automakers said they hoped to cut costs and save time by streamlining their purchasing operations and putting them online.

And the difficulty of handling the purchasing operations for toys, analysts said, was the chief reason Amazon chose that route.

Also from England is David W. Thursfield, the chairman of Ford of Europe and Mr. Booth's boss, who oversees Ford's international and purchasing operations.

For 20 years, she ran the purchasing operations at United Technologies in Columbus, Miss., an American-owned company that supplied auto parts to customers like G.M. and Chrysler.