Service and Delivery

Knowledge Element: Procurement

Definition of Knowledge Element:

Know how to purchase the best possible items for a job so that items and equipment satisfy the quality and cost requirements set by the company and also match the specification of the job.

A very brief summary of the Knowledge:

A list of preferred suppliers is available for most purchasing needs. However, it is periodically necessary to check out potential new suppliers and it may also be necessary to conduct supplier searches for items not available from preferred suppliers. Items used from internal departmental sources such as the engineering manufacturing group are also considered to be items of procurement. However, these are governed by different procedures to external procurement.

A summary of expert opinion:

The knowledge named 'Procurement' is considered to be absolutely critical.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be slightly difficult to replace, it is learned with a study experience balance, and Between 7% and 30% of Group are Experts.
It is also knowledge mostly used generally, and quite stable knowledge.
See Parameter table below for more detail.

Risk:

This knowledge element has a risk value of 5.4, whilst the average risk for the whole knowledge structure is 4.862. Consult the RISK page for more details.

The average risk of the prerequisite family of this knowledge node is 4.502 (adjusting for nodes with few members of the prerequisite family).

The average normalised prerequisite family risk of the whole map 2.122, whilst the average for the top ten percent family risk is 5.152.

Knowledge linked by learning dependency:

Postrequisite knowledge implies that Procurement must be understood before for a person can gain a full understanding of the knowledge listed in the top row of the Linked Knowledge table.

Prerequisite knowledge (bottom row in the Linked Knowledge table), is knowledge that should be understood before a full understanding of Procurement is possible.

This node has a prerequisite family consiting of 5 nodes, including the direct prerequisite knowledge shown above.

Parameters assigned for Procurement.

People Involved with Procurement:

Computed Similarity

The most similar node to Procurement is Verify resources.

The most dissimilar node to Procurement is Typical system configurations.