June 2021
Intermediate to advanced
144 pages
3h 17m
English
Understanding and Challenging Specifications
Creating, developing, and challenging specifications are key areas within procurement.
Ensuring that specifications are ethical and sustainably compliant is something that is becoming ever important within industry.
Types of Specifications
Specifications can be performance or conformance. Performance specifications are also known as output based, and conformance input based.
When selecting to use a performance specification, the procurement professional will gain higher levels of competition and innovation. Performance specifications allow suppliers to react to the scope of the document and devise their own solutions to meet the need.
When opting to use a conformance specification, there ...