1. As an employer, I realize that there if I have a professional purchasing manager, I could create significant savings. Explain the 4 savings opportunities for your upstream and downstream supply chain (4+4).In each of the eight areas define major stakeholders who need to participate collaboratively in these savings projects and why.

2. Your purchasing policies will be introduced, implemented, barely sustained, and ultimately forgotten if you do not find ways to keep the stakeholders engaged and educated on the changes. Think about how you can create systems to manager these processes. Develop a system for rapid identification of issues, quick changes, and immediate visibility, and change management. Explain the major steps your system.

3. List the steps in the P2P process. Elaborate on the procedures in each process, listing step by step how each procedure will be executed, measured, and evaluated.