Supply management

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…