Reality gap over extent of purchasing influence_2
19 July 2012
Senior purchasers often overestimate how centralised their company’s purchasing operations are, new research has shown, writes Mark Whitehead.
In a survey by consultancy Market Focus Research, Strategic Purchaser Review 2000, purchasers in over 90 per cent of the companies questioned considered their purchasing processes, including defining strategy and policy, preparing tenders and evaluating proposals for non-core products and services, to be centralised.
But survey analysis of the processes in...