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Thoughts on Crowd Sourcing

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Instead of wasting 30 minutes chasing down an RMA for a 20-dollar pair of gloves, I could collaborate with my internal customers on the essential components we need to purchase for the plant. Anyone can write a simple PO for inventory consumables without even being on-site to see the products they are purchasing.

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Opportunity Assessment and Sourcing Project Flow

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Sourcing is a process that involves finding, selecting, evaluating, and managing suppliers for day-to-day and long-term purposes for goods and services needed in the organization/company. Sourcing involves four significant steps Assess , Analyze , Execute and Evaluate. . learn more. .