Sentence examples for procurement functions from inspiring English sources

The councils have jointly appointed Capgemini to implement Oracle R12, which is a single online database that manages HR, finance, payroll and procurement functions.

Nick Petford, our VC has indicated that university's procurement functions can be used to create stable market places where social enterprise can thrive.

The latter was said to be greater where procurement functions lacked 'cultural maturity'.

These companies are thus being driven to improve the integration of the design, manufacturing and procurement functions.

Different views were encountered, but overall the findings suggested that female advancement within procurement is affected by both generic organisational and procurement-specific impediments, including inadequate work design, male-dominated cultures, negative stereotypes, high levels of travel and an aggressive ethos that characterises many procurement functions.

A subsequent GAO investigation found that government personnel abdicated their responsibilities and allowed CACI to perform procurement functions reserved for government personnel.

Whatever the cause, contract transparency that makes it easier to understand when and why something went wrong can help make government procurement function better.

Vera-Cruz believes that as the council becomes smaller and increases its commissioning role the idea of having its procurement function delivered by a number of different, as opposed to one central team becomes less attractive.

Vera-Cruz says: "By consolidating the procurement function across the whole of the organisation into the central team we may be able to find greater efficiencies from that internally and also achieve efficiencies externally as well".

This article considers the development of the purchasing function within a multinational aerospace company and applies Maister's Professional Service Firm model in an operational manner to outline the changing roles and responsibilities of the procurement function.

The impact on the procurement function is the potential change in contract cost and in the agreement between the public authorities and suppliers/service providers (3PL), as product and logistic costs can be seen differently when last mile logistics is done in-house.