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Managing, Motivating and Rewarding Procurement Professionals
Various studies have been conducted to identify the competencies which procurement professionals require. They are not vastly different to t...
Building a Procurement Team
Procurement teams are similar to other teams. They differ in exactly the same way as other teams from informal teams and they need to satisf...
Communications in Procurement
Procurement is a communications business. A procurement professional needs to both give and receive communications from the organisation'...
Marketing Procurement to Internal Customers
Many organisations do not have a corporate policy which requires all departments to use the services of procurement professionals for their ...
Supplier Performance Measurement
Supplier performance measurement can be costly to implement if it is applied to all procurement unless there are sound IT systems which can ...
Managing Suppliers and Contractors
The extent to which suppliers and contractors are managed depends on the type of relationship. Purchaser-supplier relationships exist on a c...
Procurement Supplier Management
Dealing with supplier approaches: Suppliers can and do approach all parts of an organisation and yet most members of staff have no trainin...
Checking Suppliers' Terms and Conditions
Despite good intentions and the widespread availability of terms and conditions for purchasing organisations, an enormous amount of goods an...
Buying on the telephone - not without risk!
A huge amount of procurement of goods and services is done over the telephone, sometimes but not always with a confirmatory order or letter ...
Procurement Negotiation
Many people see negotiation as a form of adversarial contest in which one side wins and the other side either loses or does not win as much....
Managing Cost and Price
Whole Life Costing: Whole life costs apply to goods and to services. For goods, the whole life cost is the total of what it costs now to...
Commercial Failure - avoiding procurement roulette
A good starting point is to look at the causes of commercial failure from the procurement point of view. This has two advantages, it helps t...
Knowledge Management in Procurement
Procurement is fundamentally a knowledge based activity. There is need to identify and systematically record knowledge associated with proc...
Mapping Procurement to Corporate Strategy
The first step in mapping procurement to corporate strategy is to determine what constitutes the corporate strategy. Corporate strategy is n...
Procurement Checklists
Procurement checklists are essential for staff who do procurement as a part of their work and can be useful for professional procurement st...
Improving Procurement Management Techniques
In our private lives, we all buy goods and services almost every day. We do so usually but not always without any problems. If there are pro...
Stress Management in Procurement
The causes of stress in procurement are much the same as the causes of stress in other activities. What is new is that those engaged in pro...
Quality Manual - PURCHASING
Purpose a) To establish and maintain documented procedures in order to ensure that the purchased product conforms to the specified r...
PROCUREMENT CYCLE CHECKLIST
Internal Control of Procurement Cycle Write down below mentioned all Procurement Checklist Cycle points into a table having title Topics ...
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