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Soddy, you do Procurement dont you?

I've got a hidden special tactic for this Thursday. It has never been used in this league and only Jose Mourinho has used it.

I do procurement, yes, ZZZ.

Olly wrote:

sodhat wrote:Course I did, some real good action there.

Barring the Chargers and Bungles game.

I'm pretty happy to be facing Indy in the next round, I like how we matchup with them.

Gotta fancy the 49ers to come out of the NFC for me. Great defence

Nah, I think Seattle match them and beat them in the NFC. I'm almost certain they'll be at the super bowl this time around barring one hell of a Saints or Niners performance in Seattle.

Indy and the Pats could be mirror images. Flawed teams with great QBs elevating them. If Brady plays mistake free then I pick the Pats to win.

VivaPaulScholes wrote:I've got a hidden special tactic for this Thursday. It has never been used in this league and only Jose Mourinho has used it.

How intriguing.................the suspense is killing me!!

sodhat wrote:I do procurement, yes, ZZZ.

You in a management role? Does sales exp help in procurement?
Ive been made aware of a procurement role but as my background is sales I dont see it as something for me. Read a bit more into the job description & kinda seems certain attributes I have I could use in the role but obviously I have no previous exp in procurement.
Tbf the person pushing me to apply doesnt do procurement so they wouldnt know, hence why im asking you.

Well, you could paint it that you're effectively the other side of the fence to procurement. You're experienced in dealing with transactions and commodities. I'm assuming you have at least some knowledge of contracts and terms and conditions (as well as statutory law such as the Sale of Goods Act 1979). It helps to have good relationship building qualities and the ability to communicate with people.

The biggest difference is in attitude. Procurement people think of paperwork and formality. Their aim is to save money from the bottom line and to secure key supply chains and suppliers and have contingencies in place if something goes wrong. Very focussed on risk management and ensuring that a supplier failure won't happen...and if it does that you can recover the situation without having the business suffer.

You can get qualified if it's a career path, maybe mention that to your company and say you'd take on the learning with the role and grow into it with them. Can't hurt.

You can't buy that kind of advice

Wait, he isn't paying?

Ill send you a Mars bar as payment Soddy.
Cheers fella. T's & C's etc im fine with.
I did think its the a bit the reverse to what I do. Im able to build a rapport with my clients/customer. I sell, negotiate prices with specific accounts where as procurement dont you try get the best price to buy at?
Securing key supply chains and suppliers I dont a problem, Ive secured top sports clubs/stadiums as accounts so id just apply that in a different manner.
Paperwork.....how much paperwork is envolved?

As I said, I dont think its for me but a mate seems to think it is & the job ive been made aware off is for a big company/organisation. Thats the only reason im exploring if its something I could do & would want to do.

I never told you Soddy did I the day when my head of year compared me to Julian Dicks (who was a former pupil)

Well it can't hurt to take a look at it and ponder it.

It varies sector to sector and company to company as to what a procurement manager/purchasing manager does. It may mean buying high priced capital items or it may be smaller items that come through a complicated supply chain. It may not include buying anything at all, and it may focus on procurement strategy and largely doing clerical and paper based work. Administrative work on purchases for example sending standard terms, collating contracts, advising colleagues on purchasing practice.

If it's that last one, you'll need to be MCIPS qualified really. The first two you can probably get by without it if you have other skills.

I do a lot of paperwork and spend a lot of time tendering work or drafting contracts. It can get tedious. I'm a funny one though because I'm essentially my own department within a department and I chose to add the paperwork myself. It would depend on the company's procedures.

Also try not to think that procurement/purchasers are solely focussed on the cheapest price. It's always described as the "best value" and so it includes quality and risk in there. If you just went around getting the lowest price for everything you'll either end up with unhappy and half-arsed suppliers and service, or the quality won't be good enough and you'll wind up in trouble.

VivaPaulScholes wrote:I never told you Soddy did I the day when my head of year compared me to Julian Dicks (who was a former pupil)

Are you absolutely sure he wasn't just using his surname to insult you?

First team CB for the  A team, Cm and captain for B team, part of the most successful team in our schools history, 4 league titles, 3 cups and one super cup. Yes we surpassed the Ian taylors zlee hendries etc. I doubt it very much he was insulting me.

I bet you heard:

"You're such a Dicks!"

Whereas you're going to need to take the capital letter from that noun and take away the S too before you get what he really said.

Three defenders injured

What would be best do you guys reckon. Play Medel at CB and play Diame in midfield, or sell Diame to lawyers and sign a new CB?

Medel plays CB for Chile doesnt he?

He does and pretty impressively.

I wouldn't rate Medel lower at CB than I would at DM

Does anyone want to match my lawyer offers for this week? I like both players I am just thinking of perhaps raising some funds.

Marky I can loan you one of my defenders if you like for free? Ogbonna, Arbeloa, Santon and Bartra are going to most likely be in my team this week and Bruma is injured so I can't really loan them out.

You can loan one or 2 of the other defenders though if you like?

No loaning in league anymore Miky

Rossi crippled his knee yet again & Di Natale retiring

Oh sorry, I didn't realise. Thanks Fernando.

I just tweeted Julian Dicks asking if he remembers a teacher from our school. Instead of replying back to me normally he sent me a private message saying "yes I remember the name". That's strange.

Is it stranger than receiving a tweet from a randomer asking if you remember a teacher from your school days?

I didn't know he had twitter though. I'll follow him and asks if he remembers taking a photo with me in a local Essex department store in 1997.

Morning.

Viva, maybe he didnt want the twitter world to knowing he went to the same school as you

Nando wrote:Rossi crippled

By a scoundrel!!

Holymiky wrote:Does anyone want to match my lawyer offers for this week? I like both players I am just thinking of perhaps raising some funds.

Marky I can loan you one of my defenders if you like for free? Ogbonna, Arbeloa, Santon and Bartra are going to most likely be in my team this week and Bruma is injured so I can't really loan them out.

You can loan one or 2 of the other defenders though if you like?

I appreciate the offer Miky, although as already said loaning isn't allowed, plus I do already have enough defenders I just didn't want to play a relatively unknown at CB

Well, we're saved:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25625534

  

Morning all,

No problem Marky and oh right fair enough.

So who does everyone think that their club will sign in this transfer window then?

 He'll turn up to training drunk mate

Pretty sure Roger Johnson got relegated from the Premier League with Blackburn.
The following season he got relegated from the Premier League with Wolves.
The following season (last season) he got relegated from the Championship with Wolves.
This season, he's moved to West Ham

Best of luck Sodhat

 way Marky puts it hes more of a curse.

Just catching up with everything properly as I'm on a laptop and not on phone.

No outstanding bonuses, the last fixture before Xmas was the rescheduled Week 3 game with no bonuses as it wasn't a real week (if that makes sense). Week 6 is this week, all tactics sent to me except for the game between me and Zebs, which will need to be sent to someone else who can post the match on Friday.

Marky wrote:Pretty sure Roger Johnson got relegated from the Premier League with Blackburn.
The following season he got relegated from the Premier League with Wolves.
The following season (last season) he got relegated from the Championship with Wolves.
This season, he's moved to West Ham

Best of luck Sodhat

We had this before with Nigel Quashie and we broke his hoodoo. Because we stopped playing him. Because he was terrible.

We probably have to play Johnson a bit because we're out of other centre backs. And we will probably get relegated. Because he's terrible.

Holymiky wrote:So who does everyone think that their club will sign in this transfer window then?

Crawley re-signed Matt Tubbs from Bournemouth on loan, think that's us for January

Holymiky wrote:Morning all,

No problem Marky and oh right fair enough.

So who does everyone think that their club will sign in this transfer window then?

Probably Heitinga on loan and that's it   

Olly wrote:

Holymiky wrote:Morning all,

No problem Marky and oh right fair enough.

So who does everyone think that their club will sign in this transfer window then?

Probably Heitinga on loan and that's it   

Down with the Hammers, you're going down with the Hammers, down with the Haaaaammmers.

No offence Sodhat, but it would be hilarious if West Ham opened the Olympic Stadium in the same division as Leyton Orient

I'd be laughing because it's a big ol' stadium on the taxpayers dime, and Barry Hearn would have a meltdown. The dumb cnut.

Morning all.

Took me a while to realise that Julian Dicks was a footballer, thought he was just some randomer you'd found Viva

As for Roger Johnson, I remember him being rated really highly but only if he was paired with Scott Dann at centre back, think they were at Milan or one of the biggies in the Euro leagues

onlytreblewinners wrote:Morning all.

Took me a while to realise that Julian Dicks was a footballer, thought he was just some randomer you'd found Viva

As for Roger Johnson, I remember him being rated really highly but only if he was paired with Scott Dann at centre back, think they were at Milan or one of the biggies in the Euro leagues

A footballer?

The footballer.

The best left back England have ever produced. And he wouldn't have missed in a penalty shoot out. And he was double hard.

No outstanding bonuses, the last fixture before Xmas was the rescheduled Week 3 game with no bonuses as it wasn't a real week (if that makes sense). Week 6 is this week, all tactics sent to me except for the game between me and Zebs, which will need to be sent to someone else who can post the match on Friday.

How about GW5 tho? before mine & fans reschduled match?
Poop I play you, I need to make some signing & sort my starting Xi out.

Looking for a CM if anyone is selling.

Week 5 has already been done, I think. Everyone who submitted tactics and votes on time is allowed to add their Week 5 bonus. I already added mine

Morning 

Mighty he was a Footballer nothing special like Soddy makes him out to be. Between us my head of year said Dicks had a fight with Ian Taylor (Played for Aston Villa) and made him cry that hardman image was just an act.

#betterthanEvra

sodhat wrote:#betterthanEvra

That's not difficult   

Zebs I'm up for a deal. Willing to sell any of my CMs except toure.

Ha better than Evra, yeah right. I love Evra he may not be the same player he used to be but he is United through and through. I loved it when he said playing against Arsenal was like men vs boys and then they tried to kick him following match.

*Reels Viva in and puts him in the box that was too easy   

onlytreblewinners wrote:Zebs I'm up for a deal. Willing to sell any of my CMs except toure.

I only want Yaya so I can the do the Kolo/Yaya song at Zwag Atleti FC.
Oh and Adnan

Fernando wrote:*Reels Viva in and puts him in the box :diva:that was too easy

Be honest Nando, you expected me to bite didnt ya

Zinedine_Ze_Zebra wrote:

Fernando wrote:*Reels Viva in and puts him in the box :diva:that was too easy  

Be honest Nando, you expected me to bite didnt ya

i was expecting Trebs then you then Viva tbh

#CaughtTheBigFish   

Haha the Arsenal boys getting a little brave this season. 

Really sad to see Walcott out, I like him takes far too much stick he is a good player.