Define or identify the sources that the organization wants to engage with to procure products and/or services.
We assume the organization wants to revise or expand its sourcing base. During this activity the new or changed sourcing
base is described in terms of how this sourcing base can be recognized or identified, approached and engaged in
transactions. The identification or the sourcing base may be straightforward e.g. through a list of named suppliers or it
can be generic e.g. through a supplier profile. Included in the definition should be the way in which the organization
wants to carry out transactions with the supplier base. It may even be that the sourcing base stays unchanged but that the
way in which the organization trades is different from before. For instance an organization may decide that rather than
buying specified products it may want to acquire production capacity from suppliers and decide later what exact product to
buy using this production capacity.
Typically on this level one can see the effects of out-sourcing and in-sourcing initiatives that the organization may
undertake.
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