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The MRO Procurement Complexity Trap

October 19 Phillip Slater

Subject Area: MRO Procurement Complexity

mro procurement complexityDo you wonder why MRO is such a hard category for procurement management? Do you find that your company constantly goes through cycles of adding and reducing MRO procurement resources?

When companies manage indirect and MRO procurement in the same way that they manage direct procurement they run the risk of falling into the MRO procurement complexity trap.

In this short video from the Something to Think About series, Phillip Slater explains the MRO procurement complexity trap and what you can do to avoid it.

 
 
 
 


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