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Why must service providers and buyers be able to negotiate?

Dr Beverley Waugh and Dr Myles Wakeham Service providers/suppliers must understand their customers, their customers’ procurement management, and negotiation! The main goal of the logistics services and procurement function is to ensure the provision of these services as required! In general, services and products that are purchased or ordered and obtained, for external and internal customers respectively, should comply with the quality requirements. The internal customers are other functions such as the finance department, human resource department in the organisation that the purchasers purchase products or services for. It is important to realise that no matter who the customers are…

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Why must service providers understand procurement?

Dr Myles Wakeham and Dr Beverley Waugh Service providers/suppliers must understand selection processes, evaluation criteria, relationship management that their customer organisations/procurement managers pursue to decide to select them or to decide to reject them! The main goal of the logistics services and procurement function is to ensure the provision of these services as required! This must support the uninterrupted flow of goods and services in order to supply what is required by the end customer – received on-time and in good quality. The interaction between the procurement/supply function and other organisational functions thus also largely determines the success of…

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