CASE QUESTIONS: Roger Haskett, p. 73

1. What are the goals of the purchasing department?

The purchasing department is held accountable for the acquiring of the total amount of all goods and services for the university. The following items are outside of the purchasing powers will to control. The first of these items would be a construction contract. This would pertain to a legal type of document that would consist of cretin details of a building and or demolition project. This contract would most likely consist of three basic factors. This factors would include a license number, a statement of the expected work outcome or quality accompanied by specification modifications, an outline for the overall project; “any allowances; a contraction timetable, including starting ad completion dates; a fixed price for the work, or a time-and-materials formula; a payment schedule; a written warranty; and a clause that outlines the methods for resolving ay disputes that arise.” (InterNACHI)[1].

Another item that would be considered outside of the purchasing departments will to control would be reading materials offered by the library system. This would include anything electronically and or physically provided by the library. With this, they purchasing department will also not involve themselves in the items offered for resale by the campus bookstore. This would include any and all current materials that could be rented by or re-purchased back by the bookstore to be reusable toward the upcoming year. Last, the purchasing department stays clear of the food services department. This is probably due to reduce the confusion and depth of dealing with a assortment of segmented purchasing decisions in dealing with feeding over 31,000 mouths.

As one of the goals of the purchasing department is to stay clear of the ladder information given, the other goals of the