Service and Delivery
Knowledge Element: External procurement
Definition of Knowledge Element:
Know the external procurement procedure, how to use procurement tools and understand the process and function of procurement in the company.
A very brief summary of the Knowledge:
Non provided.
A summary of expert opinion:
The knowledge named 'External procurement' is considered to be very important.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be slightly difficult to replace, it is mostly learned by study, 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 4.0, 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 2.472 (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:
| Procurement | |
| External procurement | |
|---|---|
| Preferred suppliers | Purchasing |
Postrequisite knowledge implies that External 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 External procurement is possible.
Each of the 2 prerequisite knowledge elements shown in the table is a leaf node. That means that each element has no further prerequisites.
Parameters assigned for External procurement.
| Identifier | Name | Value | Clarifier | Weight | Study Mean |
P1 |
Importance |
7.0 |
very important |
1.0 |
6.34 |
P2 |
Recovery |
2.0 |
slightly difficult to replace |
1.0 |
3.38 |
P3 |
Study-Exp |
1.0 |
mostly learned by study |
1.0 |
3.46 |
P4 |
Known By |
2.0 |
Between 7% and 30% of Group are Experts |
-1.0 |
2.80 |
P6 |
Specialised |
2.0 |
knowledge mostly used generally |
1.0 |
5.05 |
P7 |
Stability |
6.0 |
quite stable knowledge |
-0.7 |
6.41 |
People Involved with External procurement:
| Person | Expert | Capable | Responsible | E N Roberts | Yes |
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Yes |
|---|
Computed Similarity
The most similar nodes to External procurement are Access and search fault log and Completing service request.
The most dissimilar node to External procurement is Service Evaluation.