Commentary

Abstract

Guiding the buyers. A Saying containing considerable truth is ‘It's one thing to know what you want but it's just as important to know where to get it’. Time, these days, is a valuable commodity and much of it is wasted in trying to find sources of supply. In industry this may often be of considerable importance and that is the reason why a successful industrial company will, more often than not, be found to have an efficient buying organisation. The job of a buyer in any manufacturing organisation is arduous and specialised: he must be conversant with products covering a variety of industrial fields, of their price ranges, deliveries and dependability.

Citation

(1964), "Commentary", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 13-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb020140