The phrase "a global procurement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the process of acquiring goods or services on a worldwide scale.
Example: "The company has implemented a strategy for a global procurement to streamline its supply chain operations."
Alternatives: "international procurement" or "worldwide sourcing".
Re "How to Distribute AIDS Drugs," by Carol Bellamy (Op-Ed, March 26): Unicef's offer to take the lead in setting up a global procurement and distribution system for AIDS drugs is a significant step in the fight against AIDS.
In this research, the overall subcontracting supply chain of a construction project is considered as a global procurement system and an optimal combination of subcontractors can be obtained within this system.
Wal-Mart Stores already has a global procurement office in Santiago and exports Chilean products to its stores throughout the world.
True to his focus on cost-cutting, Mittal says that the new site (which he calls a "global procurement portal") will make metal trading faster and cheaper by directly linking buyers and sellers across the world.
"This will enable John to take a more active role in global procurement, an area of increasing strategic importance which John assumed in January," the chief executive, H. Lee Scott Jr., said.
Global procurement mechanisms are a major potent force in successful global health programming.
Other senior management changes include the promotion of Paul R. Richardson, an executive vice president for global procurement and Britain, to president of United States operations.
The overhead for global procurement from Washington is a cost shared by dozens of countries and millions of people and would not be altered by the presence or absence of a Myanmar operation, so it is omitted from analysis.
"The reason we have a global public procurement agreement is that we believe in opening our markets up to competition and providing the best services available for the best price," Mr. Gooch said.
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies South Africa (Pty Ltdd, a subsidiary of Veolia Water, has been contracted by a global engineering, procurement and construction management company to design, fabricate and supply a brackish water treatment plant for the second phase of a mine in Mauritania, Northwest Africa.
NuScale is partnered with Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR), a global engineering, procurement, and construction company with a 60-year history in commercial nuclear power.
