The president of our IT vendor passed along an article that mentioned a new IT purchasing standard that has been developed by General Motors and Carnegie Mellon University. Reading the article, left me a little curious: could a purchasing standard written from an IT point of view really achieve adoption among purchasing professionals?

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I would love to read the standard, but…

IT IS FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN PAGES LONG!

I did some searching in the standard, and it did surprisingly seem to address things that are near and dear to purchasing’s heart like procurement negotiation and supplier performance issues. Hmmm…

If you have more time than I, you can read the report here.

I’d love to hear a purchasing person’s opinion on this thing!

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