Purchasing - February 5, 2004

Four years ago Lockheed Martin decided that it was time to make some major changes to its largely decentralized organization. The $26.6 billion defense contractor had grown and changed through a series of acquisitions and divestitures and the five individual business units were functioning as, well, individual business units.

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