TY - CHAP A1 - Liebetruth, Thomas A1 - Melneck, Walther A1 - Pilsl, Alexander ED - Bogaschewsky, Ronald ED - Eßig, Michael ED - Lasch, Rainer ED - Stölzle, Wolfgang T1 - Process maturity-assessments in strategic procurement – guideline for developing an advanced methodology T2 - Supply Management Research. Advanced Studies in Supply Management N2 - Purchasing is an important and at the same time critical function in multinational enterprises. Challenges are besides the growing purchasing volume the widespread distribution of organizational units and often a lack of coherence in those processes involving various organizational units. This becomes most evident in strategic procurement. Maturity assessments are a vital tool to create coherence in processes. In this contribution we provide a framework for the development of maturity assessments in strategic procurement for multinational enterprises. This framework covers all important aspects and topics to consider when developing a new procurement maturity assessment program for multinational corporations. From our company-background we also provide some casespecific examples how the framework can be brought to live. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-658-08808-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08809-5_12 VL - 20 SP - 273 EP - 291 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ER -