Smart-Purchasing.com: Best Practices:Management

Best Practices: Process Management
Proactively Develop Staff

Traditional	Best Practice
"Born, work, and die in purchasing" career path Specific functional training only	Rotate staff (senior and junior level through purchasing) Periodic business management and functional skills training Written career plan for each staff member Documented performance evaluations

Rationale
Good purchasing decision making requires broad business knowledge Rotation brings new ideas to purchasing and exports purchasing knowledge to rest of company
Details
The following numbers can be used as benchmarks: 50 percent of staff less than five years in purchasing 75 percent of staff with internal customer department experience Annual performance reviews and career paths

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