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3.2 The role of procurement
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Procurement, logistics and the supply chain

Procurement, logistics and the supply chain

A bakery supply chain with suppliers, production, storage, delivery vans and retail shop, showing procurement at the buying stage, logistics across transport and storage, and supply chain management coordinating the whole chain Procurement means finding, choosing and buying the goods and services a business needs from suppliers. Logistics means organising the transport and storage of those goods so the business can keep operating.

3.2 The role of procurement Lesson

  1. GCSE
  2. /Business
  3. /3.2 The role of procurement

Step-by-step lessons on AQA GCSE Business 3.2 The role of procurement, covering 3.2.1 Just in time and just in case, 3.2.1b Costs and benefits of stock management, 3.2.2 Factors affecting choice of suppliers, 3.2.3 Procurement and logistics, and 3.2.4 Effective supply chain management. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start by mastering business terminology and the functional areas (marketing, finance, operations, HR) before moving on to the extended, evaluation-heavy questions that carry the most marks.