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Bigger Isn't Always Better - Don’t Overestimate Economies of Scale
In this excerpt from A Procurement Compendium - a collection of articles written by Peter Smith spanning his years writing advisory, current affairs and procurement commentary while at Spend Matters - Peter explains the misconceptions procurement sometimes hold over economies of scale. “… assuming that economies of scale apply uniformly, or that the bigger buyer will always do better than the smaller, is lazy thinking. We have to look at each category and product on its own merits,” he says. Read the whole article here.
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