Strategic Sourcing Basics — Assessment

To make supplier decisions from category strategy, performance, risk, and long-term supply needs To bypass supplier and approval controls To hide buying decisions from audit history To duplicate purchase records across branches

Category spend, concentration, lead time, reliability, pricing, risk, and terms Only the supplier logo Only the newest dashboard number Nothing if the requester is senior

It shows why a supplier strategy was chosen and how it will be reviewed It replaces supplier records It makes approvals unnecessary It lets users ignore receiving

Reactive buying that ignores category risk and supplier performance Clearer supplier accountability Better audit readiness More useful procurement reports

The sourcing decision should include rationale and review cadence The source record should be deleted The supplier decision should stay informal The next owner should guess the context