PIMA's Professional Specialist Group for Purchasing and Affiliates has been in operation for 12 years.  One of our main functions is to plan a high-quality, purchasing-focused Specialist Group session for each year's International Management Conference.   We also provide our members with a forum for keeping up with trends, ideas, and practices related to purchasing issues, the procurement function, and the constantly changing mill/supplier relationship, all within the pulp and paper industry environment.   We meet two or three times each year; meetings include an educational activity, such as a mill or plant tour. 

We also serve as a resource for National PIMA for purposes of additional conference session planning, speaker contact, or to review proposals, directives, or membership issues relating to the purchasing arena.  Group members have  contributed editorial content to PIMA's Papermaker magazine.  All of our activity is conducted within the guidelines of PIMA's antitrust statement and code of compliance.

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