Indirect procurement requires a different balance of disciplined processes and technology, engagement with stakeholders and diverse expertise across a range of suppliers. Overall: Within the indirect supply market there are hundreds of categories, all of which require deep knowledge to procure effectively.
Sociologists use the term social stratification to describe the system of social standing. Social stratification refers to a societyâs categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power. You may remember the word âstratificationâ from geology class.
Social stratification is not necessarily universal, per se...but it does directly correspond to the presence of limited resources which must satiate a larger population of whom most want more than there is to go around, and this is the case in most places these days in the postindustrial world.