Soyfoods: Purchasing Decisions for Unconventional Products

Verónica León Bravo; Elisa Medina; Antonella Moretto

doi:10.1007/978-3-032-12235-3_2

Soyfoods: Purchasing Decisions for Unconventional Products

Verónica León Bravo^*
, Elisa Medina
, Antonella Moretto

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The SoyFoods case describes a set of situations related to the main purchasing and supply management (PSM) decisions. It is based on real company data, anonymized, and it presents the genuine challenges encountered by an Italian food company operating in the vegetable alternatives sector, where the supply market presents several criticalities. The case is structured in three parts for three learning sessions to cover the main PSM concepts, i.e., financial impact of procurement, make-or-buy decisions, spend analysis and classification, and supplier performance evaluation. Thus, the case can be applied in a modular way encompassing various PSM concepts, according to the teacher/ class needs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Pedagogical Case Studies in Purchasing and Supply Management
Editors	Morgane Fritz, Laurence Viale, Stephen Kelly, Vikas Kumar
Publisher	Springer Nature
Chapter	2
Pages	23-46
Number of pages	23
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-032-12235-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-032-12234-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12235-3_2
Publication status	Published - 2026
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Food industry
Make or buy
Spend analysis
Spend classification
Supplier performance evaluation

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