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What is the different between procurement and purchasing?

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Question added by osama muhammad muhammad osman , Supply Chain Manager , Aldora house
Date Posted: 2018/01/29
Zaferullah Sharief, PMP®
by Zaferullah Sharief, PMP® , Project Manager , Huawei Technologies

Procurement is a complete process that needs high skills, modern tools and technics, documentation, analytics, etc. for obtaining the goods or services from the supplier from End to End in professional approach; where as purchasing is the old ways of acquiring goods and services on transational basis.

Irfanur Rahman Md Rashed
by Irfanur Rahman Md Rashed , Factory Manager , Casadevall Bangladesh Ltd.

In a word, Procurement is combination of sourcing, selection of products, services & vendors, negotiation of prices, terms & contracts where Purchasing is a combination of ordering process, payments & delivery of the goods be ordered.

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