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Procurement and Sustainability are Your Yin and Yang!

Supply Chain Game Changer

At their root, these two roles coexist with conflicting purposes, but function stronger together than they do apart, as they are — at times — seemingly contrary forces that actually are complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in any business. Procurement is fundamentally centered around the act of acquisition and/or buying.

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The New Look on Industrial Buying

The Good Spending

T hese routine activities leverage integrated automated systems, enabling supply chain visibility. The relationship-based view of industrial buying assumes three scenarios: Routinized exchange relationships for consistent and predictable demand with a higher degree of interdependence between parties.