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  2. Purchasing Managers' Index - Wikipedia

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    ISM's Purchasing Managers Index 1948–2012. Purchasing managers' indexes (PMI) are economic indicators derived from monthly surveys of private sector companies.. The three principal producers of PMIs are the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), which originated the manufacturing and non-manufacturing metrics produced for the United States, the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials ...

  3. Purchasing management - Wikipedia

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    Purchasing management is the management of the purchasing process and related aspects in an organization.. A purchasing management department can be formed and operated by one or more employees in order to ensure that all services, goods, supplies, and inventory needed for the organization to operate are ordered and kept in stock, as well as control inventory levels and costs associated with ...

  4. ISM Report On Business - Wikipedia

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    The ISM Report On Business (ROB), also known as the ISM Report, is the collective name for two monthly reports, the Manufacturing ISM Report On Business and the Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business, published by Institute for Supply Management. The ROB is based on a national survey of purchasing managers tracking changes in the ...

  5. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index up 1.1% for March - AOL

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    The Markit Flash U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index bumped up 1.1% to 54.9 for March, according to a Markit report [link opens a PDF] released today. An above-50 reading denotes ...

  6. Category management (purchasing) - Wikipedia

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    Category management is an approach to the organisation of purchasing within a business organisation, also often referred to as procurement.Applying category management to purchasing activity benefits organisations by providing an approach to reduce the cost of buying goods and services, reduce risk in the supply chain, increase overall value from the supply base and gain access to more ...

  7. Institute for Supply Management - Wikipedia

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    Institute for Supply Management ( ISM) is the oldest, and the largest, supply management association in the world. [1] Founded in 1915, the U.S.-based not-for-profit educational association serves professionals and organizations with a keen interest in supply management, providing them education, training, qualifications, publications ...

  8. Procurement - Wikipedia

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    Business administration. Procurement is the process of locating and agreeing to terms and purchasing goods, services, or other works from an external source, often with the use of a tendering or competitive bidding process. [1] The term may also refer to a contractual obligation to "procure", i.e. to "ensure" that something is done.

  9. Ivey Index - Wikipedia

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    The Ivey Purchasing Managers Index ( IPMI) is jointly sponsored by the Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC) and the Richard Ivey School of Business. The Ivey Purchasing Managers Index measures month-to-month changes in dollars of purchases as indicated by a panel of purchasing managers from across Canada .

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