Northern Province Authority (NPA) seeks to use market dialogue to improve the contract specification for a new procurement tender of a domestic waste collection contract. Which of the following topics would be appropriate for dialogue with potential suppliers?

As part of a tender, which of the following are advantages that a purchasing organisation would expect to achieve by specifying that suppliers hold certification to an international environmental management standard, such as ISO 14001?
* It provides assurance that bidders have achieved a common standard of practice
* It provides a guarantee that any polluting suppliers will be unable to tender
* The standard is recognisable to local and international bidders
* It removes the need to conduct internal environmental training

Which of the following departments would be both internal customers and internal suppliers of an organisational procurement function? Select all that apply.

Thinking of the cultural web (Johnson and Scholes), which of the following refers to the idea that past events will be recurringly discussed and kept alive by current employees telling newcomers, reinforcing certain aspects of culture?

Within the overall philosophy of just-in-time production, a signalling system to indicate when the next stage of the production process needs output from the previous stage, is called: