Kyle Grant is a procurement director at ATSS Ltd and has introduced a new policy within the procurement function. The policy requires the procurement function to obtain quotations from multiple suppliers if a contract is worth over £10,000. What is the primary aim of this policy?
In the 1990s a company spent a lot of time and money developing a device that you could carry around that could play CDs. The product spent a long time in development but when it was released the sales figures were very disappointing. This was in part due to the fact another product was released at a similar time which had much more developed technology and could play music without the cumbersome size of a portable CD player. Which of the following did the company not consider when developing the product?
The executive board of a manufacturing company is requesting support from the procurement team because the company needs to improve its levels of profitability. After segmenting the overall spend by value and risk of supply, the senior buyer for the company is planning to undertake a cost modelling activity. This will be undertaken with a cross-organisational team of internal stakeholders and key strategic suppliers. What would be the buyer's initial objective from the cost modelling activity?
Cigarettes and alcohol are often described as having an ‘inelastic price’. What does this mean?
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