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Volume 3, Issue 1
1 January 1999
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Review Article| January 01 1999

Procurement moves centre stage

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-8057
Print ISSN: 1368-3047
© MCB UP Limited
1999
Measuring Business Excellence (1999) 3 (1): 40–44.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb025565

Market conditions are undermining the commonly held view of the procurement function as a service‐providing cost centre. A benchmarking consortium of leading companies guided by Juran Institute has been exploring best practice in a strategic context.

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