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If you are a buyer or purchasing manager for business, which of the following ways do you buy MRO items (maintenance, repair, and operating supplies)?

Buy only when immediately needed.
Buy expected amount needed for a month or two.
Buy amount depending on cost and price breaks.
Allow suppliers to estimate our needs and buy and store that amount.
Have supplier store amount for us that we use in a reasonable time.
Store amount by item category depending on cost and usage.

How to Improve Purchasing

Date: 12/26/2017

Author: H.E. Hough

Improving purchasing operations involves looking at and analyzing the data from past activities as well as forcasting how various changes will affect the operation.




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Tony Tapia - Feb 07 2018 12:00 AM

Data is increasingly becoming the focal point of purchasing. With that being said in order to inmprove our operations I believe as buyers, we need to include the end users as much as possible as they will be the key to making sure our proposed improvements will actualy have an impact.