Case Study on Futura Foods Ltd

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Abstracts
This paper evaluates the characteristics considered in procurement decisions made by
food industries manufacturers. A case study is developed by qualitative data from a company
dealing with dairy products in the UK and is used to determine the importance of various
procurement characteristics and their results on customer’s procurement mechanism. The paper
also examines the strategic roles that this department plays and what the product procurement
plays within a corporation. It also outlines the concept of supply chain management and shows
how that concept is essential to the academic and business world and establishes a foundation to
understand this rationale. The paper first gives a background of the food industry in the UK;
second, it shows the aims and objectives and lastly shows the structure of the thesis.

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Table of content
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Introduction........................................................................................5
Literature review..................................................................................7
Case study...........................................................................................8
Recommendations..................................................................................14
Conclusions.........................................................................................15
Reference list......................................................................................16