Service and Delivery
Knowledge Element: Purchasing
Definition of Knowledge Element:
Know how to raise a purchase request and link it to a job and how to deal with the records and procedures throughout the purchasing process.
A very brief summary of the Knowledge:
Non provided.
A summary of expert opinion:
The knowledge named 'Purchasing' is considered to be quite important.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be slightly difficult to replace, it is mostly learned by study, and Between 30% and 60% of Group are Experts.
It is also knowledge mostly used generally, and generally stable knowledge.
See Parameter table below for more detail.
Risk:
This knowledge element has a risk value of 2.88, whilst the average risk for the whole knowledge structure is 4.862. Consult the RISK page for more details.
Knowledge linked by learning dependency:
| External procurement | Internal procurement |
| Purchasing | |
|---|---|
Postrequisite knowledge implies that Purchasing 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.
Purchasing has no prerequisite knowledge items and is therefore known as a leaf node. A leaf node is knowledge that has not been investigated further when the map was constructed.
Parameters assigned for Purchasing.
| Identifier | Name | Value | Clarifier | Weight | Study Mean |
P1 |
Importance |
6.0 |
quite important |
1.0 |
6.34 |
P2 |
Recovery |
1.0 |
slightly difficult to replace |
1.0 |
3.38 |
P3 |
Study-Exp |
1.0 |
mostly learned by study |
1.0 |
3.46 |
P4 |
Known By |
5.0 |
Between 30% and 60% of Group are Experts |
-1.0 |
2.80 |
P6 |
Specialised |
2.0 |
knowledge mostly used generally |
1.0 |
5.05 |
P7 |
Stability |
8.0 |
generally stable knowledge |
-0.7 |
6.41 |
People Involved with Purchasing:
| Person | Expert | Capable | Responsible | E N Roberts | Yes |
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Computed Similarity
The most similar node to Purchasing is Job preparation.
The most dissimilar node to Purchasing is Service Evaluation.