The purchasing function of The Body Shop in Sweden is situated in Stockholm where there are three people working who is in command of product assortment decisions. The purchasing function also handles contract agreements with the suppliers and together with the marketing function they decide upon a market plan that bring up aspects such as when the products will be launched When the assortment and the contract is decided the purchasing function hands over the responsibility to the logistics function. Their first activity is to do the call- off at the supplier