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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.