Which of the following tasks is not a task of the purchasing department?
Conducting purchasing market-research.
Investigating the financial position of suppliers.
Defining purchasing specifications.
Specification of price and delivery conditions.
Which of the following tasks is not a task of the purchasing department?
Performing a supplier evaluation.
Developing a sourcing strategy.
A make-or-buy decision.
Set up of a contract database.
Which of the following tasks is not considered as a core task for the purchasing function?
The reduction of all purchasing-related spend in the company.
Contribution to product and process innovation.
Reductions of the company’s risk exposure in relation to its supply markets.
Formalizing the purchasing process through uniform procedures.
Which of the following statements, about the primary tasks and responsibilities of purchasing, is not correct?
Core to the purchasing function is facilitating and supporting the role.
Reduction of suppliers is an important goal, as combining purchasing power can result in substantial savings.
The reduction of purchasing spend has two sides: one, purchasers can contribute by reducing the purchasing spend and two, purchasers can contribute by lowering the transaction costs.
The ways of working should be described, preferably in purchasing procedures which are simple to use and easy to communicate.
Which of the following statements, about the primary tasks and responsibilities of purchasing, is not correct?
A purchasing policy needs to be aligned with the policy of other functional areas.
The purchasing policy needs to be focused on improving the company margin.
When making purchasing decisions, the results on other functional areas should be taken into account.
The purchasing policy needs to focus on improving the financial result of purchasing.
In the implementation phase, operational purchasing is one of the important steps. Which of the following aspects is not an aspect of operational purchasing?
Development of efficient order procedures through the introduction of e-procurement solutions.
Shortening of internal and logistical throughput times.
Improvement of supplier reliability.
Control of all purchasing related costs and spend.
Consider the following statements about purchasing: I. Operation purchasing is focused on the optimization of the order procedure and the incoming logistics. II. The most important aspects of operational purchasing are: * Control of internal orders. * Optimization of (size of) orders. * Improvement of supplier performance.
Both statements are correct.
Both statements are incorrect.
Statement I is correct and Statement II is incorrect.
Statement I is incorrect and Statement II is correct.
Some characteristics determine the speed of development of the purchasing and supply function in terms of time. Which of these characteristics is not listed below?
The strategy of a company.
System development.
Product complexity
Leadership.
Which of the statements below is not correct?
During a transaction orientation, the focus is put on the operational purchasing function.
If value creation is done centrally, suppliers are actively involved in the development of improving the value proposition of the internal user.
During the commercial orientation, purchasing is focused on reducing purchasing spend through hard negotiation.
During the coordinated purchasing phase, the purchasing department tries to use the advantages of the collective purchasing needs.
The most important instruments for the execution of a purchasing policy are: the pricing policy, the supply, product and supplier quality, supplier policy and communication policy.
Consider the following statements about the execution of the purchasing policy: I. The quality policy relates to the material specifications. II. Control of supplier reliability is part of the supplier policy.
Both statements are correct.
Both statements are incorrect.
Statement I is correct and Statement II is incorrect.
Statement I is incorrect and Statement II is correct.
Which of the statements, about the development of supply management over time, is not correct?
As purchasing develops, more cross-functional activities are started.
As purchasing develops, more decentral purchases are made and less central purchases.
The purchasing and supply development model can be used as a benchmark tool for industries and individual companies.
External integration is the last phase in the purchasing and supply development model.
Which of the statements, about the development of supply management over time, is not correct?
Cross-functional purchasing is a typical characteristic of value chain integration.
As purchasing develops, less decentral purchases are made and more central purchases.
Large scale academic research has proved that the purchasing and supply development model is valid in every industry.
An orientation on transaction cost is typical for the first step in the purchasing and supply development model.