ISCOM 361 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Organizational Design at Caterpillar

Learning Team Assignment Organizational Design at Caterpillar

Resource: pp. 148149 of Purchasing & Supply Chain Management

Write an 1100-word paper addressing the topics below.

Consider how the organizational design in the example affects purchasing. Please remember to use headers for each requirement clearly identifying your responses.

What personnel duties and responsibilities make this relationship possible?

How were organizational decisions made and communicated?

Is Caterpillars purchasing authority centralized or decentralized?

What are advantages of this type of authority?

How may Caterpillar continue to ensure their organizational structure meets future needs?

How does Caterpillars organizational structure compare to that of your current organization, or one you worked for in the past? If you have no organization to compare to, chose one you are interested in off the internet and use its organizational structure for comparison purposes.

Use a minimum of one reference and APA guidelines apply. Use headings for each bulleted requirement.