When we had to steamline our processes last year, we salespeople have a terrible time with our purchasers. It always takes them too long to do their 'shopping', and therefore it takes our company too long to produce our goods. It really is a disaster!

Veronica Lu - Head of Sales

Cooperation between buyers and salespeople within one company? Never heard of it. Whatever would they need to talk to each other about?

Marcel Le Maigre - Account Manager

Buyers buy. And sales reps sell. So buyers and sellers are 'natural enemies'; they are on opposite sides, have opposing interests and quite a different mentality. Of course they deal with each other in separate companies, but in the same company? No, how could they possibly cooperate?

Emma Wild - Sales Prepresentative

Sales and purchasing are all part of producing and delivering goods or services to a customer. If the two departments don't cooperate well in the process, the company will lose money. It's as simple as that.

Maria Santos - Senior Purchaser

In our company, the people in sales and purchasing departments are experts in various markets and they all try to stay on top of developments. They negotiate about quality, delivery time and, most importantly, about prices. In our company, we learn from each other through regular meetings. It works