Procurement Overhaul set for Kraft Foods

Purchasing at Kraft Foods is in the midst of an overhaul under the direction of the firm’s senior vice-president of procurement, Julia Brown. Speaking at the 95th annual Institute for Supply Management conference in California this week Brown, who joined the company 18 months ago, said she found a supply chain staffed with people with a mixture of abilities, a vast spread of systems (including 80 for procurement) and no holistic vision that everyone in purchasing could articulate. She said of her transformation plans: “You would assume when you walk into a company such as Kraft that this work would have already been done – and in many ways it had – but the world is changing, it continues to change and procurement needs to anticipate what’s happening in the marketplace and put in place strategies to bring value and mitigate risk.”

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