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Other than the types of things purchased, how does purchasing in a firm that manufacturer pianos and has annual gross income of $15,000,000 differ from purchasing in a firm that provides house-washing services and has annual gross income of $15,000?

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110 words on how purchasing in a firm differs when that firm makes a thousand times as much income as another.

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In a big manufacturing firm purchase function is organized to carefully choose vendors based on their history and quality of supplies and price of their goods. The ...

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