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The corporate art of buying things slowly enough to need its own department.
means The formal process of finding, vetting, and purchasing goods or services for an organization, usually with rules attached.
from From Latin procurare, to take care of or manage on another's behalf — literally caring for someone else's affairs, which became caring for someone else's budget.
Not shoppingBuying with rules, approvals, and audit trails.
P2PProcure-to-pay: the full buy-then-pay lifecycle.
Spend powerOften controls the largest slice of company cash.