This is the website of the International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association. IPSERA is a multi-disciplinary network of academics and practitioners dedicated to the development of knowledge concerning Purchasing and Supply Management.
Attendance at the annual conference guarantees exposure to some of the most recent research developments in this field. The conference welcomes contributions from academics in any field or discipline that has a contribution to make to understanding of Purchasing and Supply phenomena.
Membership of IPSERA offers consultants and practitioners contact with a global network of experts on a range of issues relating to Purchasing and Supply concepts.
Its certified Academic Centres of Excellence and 'Regional Nodes', offer decentralised regional platforms for academic exchange and diffusion of new ideas and concepts across the world.
You will find general information, details about membership and an application form. You have free access to our Library which contains over 1200 purchasing related papers. The 'Members-Only' part of this web site enables access to a library with more papers, a range of forums, overviews of vacancies posted and access to other members.
IPSERA is digitising old pre-1994 volumes of proceedings and they will be uploaded to the library. The 1994 up to 2008 conference papers are in the library. The 2009 and 2010 proceedings are not yet available through the search engine but can be downloaded as total proceedings by using the following links.
Proceedings Wiesbaden 2009 Part 1 pages 1-510
Proceedings Wiesbaden 2009 Part 2 pages 511-1023
Proceedings Wiesbaden2009 Part 3 pages 1024-1571