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Diploma in procurement and supply<br />

4.0 Understand the main processes that can be applied to the sourcing of requirements from<br />

external suppliers<br />

4.1 Assess commonly used sources of information on market data that can impact on the<br />

sourcing of requirements from external suppliers<br />

• The importance of analysing markets<br />

• Compiling data on expenditures on suppliers<br />

• Indices that measure economic data<br />

• Secondary data on markets and suppliers<br />

• Commodity pricing<br />

• Analysing potential sales<br />

4.2 Explain the main processes used for obtaining quotations and tenders<br />

• Advertising requirements<br />

• Requests for information or quotations<br />

• The operation of tendering<br />

• Formalised arrangements for tendering<br />

• Decision criteria for dispensing with tendering<br />

4.3 Evaluate the criteria that can be commonly applied to the assessment of quotations or<br />

tenders<br />

• Assessment of suppliers proposals<br />

• The use of weighted points systems for assessment<br />

• Recommending sources of supply<br />

4.4 Explain how electronic systems can be used to help the sourcing of requirements from<br />

external suppliers<br />

• Erequisitioning and purchase ordering systems<br />

• Ecatalogues on intranets and the internet<br />

• The use of eauctions<br />

• Etendering systems<br />

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