International Purchasing Staffing Service has assisted many fine companies through good times and bad. The reasons for the calls or the situations may be different, but the results of calling IPS are amazingly similar. IPS provides professional staffing quickly and leaves the client satisfied with a job well done. The scenarios below have been provided to give an example of what IPS can do for you when you call our number.

Midwest Based Defense Contractor

Prior to Desert Storm, a mobile field operating room was developed for the army. Upon receipt of an accelerated contract from the Department of Defense, IPS was asked to provide support for purchasing services and other procurement related activities. As many as seven of our temporary buyers and contract administrators were on-site to complete the contract on time and under budget.

Large Tier One Automotive Supplier

The procurement cycle is involved with the point of initial engineering design, through the PPAP stage (when the supplier submits sample parts), to the PO contract being placed into the system, until the program's parts are into production on a routine basis. The purchasing department employees were not effectively performing the work responsibilities of the Senior Buyer position, which required the purchasing of all stampings, all fastener types, and wire harnesses for multiple plant operation. IPS supplied a Senior Buyer who turned the overall situation into an effective program and trained the client's full-time employees.

Winery and Vineyards

Grapes of Wealth Vineyards needed a MRO Buyer, during the wine making season, who could locate parts quickly to keep the machinery going. Unreliable rural delivery from their small town was draining the wine's production flow. Enter the IPS staffer, Betty, who needed temporary work while she cared for an ill spouse at home. She used her nationwide contacts, and IPS computer set-up, to uncork the bottleneck in parts delivery. She did this all from her SOHO (small office home office). Betty, despite the vineyard's limited computer resources, was able to negotiate the best price and delivery with her contacts. She also detailed a purchasing history, allowing the more efficient ordering of parts in the future, thus saving time and money. The client was so pleased that they hired Betty for the next year as well.

Manufacturer of Electronic Instruments

The company was interested in exploring using international sourcing for some of its manufacturing operations. IPS sent a C.P.M.(certified in Purchasing Management) with 15 years of experience. Tim also had many contacts in the far east. His job was to create international sources of supply. Of particular interest, was a part that seemed to lend itself to the high volume, low cost expertise of several companies, located on an island half way around the world. Tim knew the company wasn't ready to set up an island office complete with staff and equipment at that time. The mobile purchasing office concept was designed to support the temporary purchaser in these kind of situations. Before Tim left for the Far East, he made certain his notebook computer had all the necessary software for purchasing applications and worldwide communications. Tim was able to fly to the island, use innovative means to perform his duties successfully, and return with a job well done, within a month.

Regional Health/Hospital System

A major health systems corporation had an urgent need for a large number of experienced buyers due to an enormous backlog of requisitions, and increased demand. IPS provided six "hands-on" buyers within one week, and four more one month later.  After nine months of documented "production" increases, the backlog was all but eliminated, and four buyers left the project.   However, due to the high output level of the IPS buyers, six of them remained on the clients' staff six months longer and three of them recieved "permanent" job offers.