The investigation of purchasing operations in the context of logistic management and the investigation of logistics department administrator's interview with interview method

Purchasing is one of the functions and the applications for enterprises. In particular, purchasing is also an important factor for enterprises to balance their financial structure. That is why the enterprises gave valuable responsibilities to purchasing department. At the same time administrations of enterprises pay attention on this department's advices and approaches with its activities. For a lot of enterprises, purchasing is a necessity with this formation. However, when the issue was evaluated in the context of logistic sector, it is seen that there was the presence of an important communication between purchasing and logistic operations. Logistic sector has been in an important development process. That is why the purchasing is a valuable factor for logistic sector enterprises and for the logistic operation payments of other enterprises. Although purchasing seems like the hegemonic activity, actually there is a direct relationship with logistic. In this study, the interaction between national and international logistic operations with purchasing. In the first chapter of study, there is purchasing function for enterprises; logistic process in second chapter; logistic operations for Turkish and international market in third chapter and an interview and its evaluation, which has been realized with authorities, who had knowledge about the issue, from four different enterprises.