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Building a Procurement Team

Building a Procurement Team

Procurement teams are similar to other teams. They differ in exactly the same way as other teams from informal teams an…

Communications in Procurement

Communications in Procurement

Procurement is a communications business. A procurement professional needs to both give and receive communications from…

Supplier Performance Measurement

Supplier Performance Measurement

Supplier performance measurement can be costly to implement if it is applied to all procurement unless there are sound …

Managing Suppliers and Contractors

Managing Suppliers and Contractors

The extent to which suppliers and contractors are managed depends on the type of relationship. Purchaser-supplier relat…

Procurement Supplier Management

Procurement Supplier Management

Dealing with supplier approaches: Suppliers can and do approach all parts of an organisation and yet most members of …

Procurement Negotiation

Procurement Negotiation

Many people see negotiation as a form of adversarial contest in which one side wins and the other side either loses or …

Managing Cost and Price

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…

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