Procure Quotes
You need to understand what you are buying, and why, how it will affect your business, and what the potential risks are. That detailed understanding may be beyond the scope of a procurement department.
- Owen Williams

You need time and a forum to find out [the marketing staff's] philosophy and needs. You can get that through the procurement department, but it's better to have it directly from the marketing staff. Any good agency can develop ideas that are on-strategy, but you need to meet the CMO and know what kind of ideas will resonate with him.
- Larry Deutsch

We're working on a couple of bids right now where, in both cases, the procurement cycle has extended beyond what we normally would have thought it would--we're talking months in terms of slippage of this particular type of procurement. There's a lot more checking and double checking, and making sure that all the regulatory issues that we have to be concerned about are properly addressed.
- Howard Mains

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