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FM WorldFM and Procurement Departments: How cost reductions are causing them to work together differently
Supplies and Demands
With so much focus on cutting costs procurement departments in many organisations become more powerful. But moves to enforce existing contracts and drive expenditure reductions can put them at odds with FM departments.
The global recession, and its subsequent focus on cutting costs, has seen procurement departments in many organisations become more powerful.
Boosted by the greater attention paid to the profession by senior management, procurement has been only too keen to take advantage of the opportunity to get more spend categories under management, as well as enforcing existing...
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