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will purchase parts based primarily on their familiarity with the part or vendor rather than aggressively looking for the lowest cost at the highest quality .
“ We are witnessing a change in the integration of procurement with design ,” he says . “ Whereas before it would be a case of sourcing parts to an individual engineer ’ s familiarity , or just looking at supply chain optimization , the challenge was that the supplier relationship was owned by the company or by the procurement team not necessarily engineering .
“ Now , it is much more individual and much more owned and dictated by the joint efforts of engineering and procurement .
“ The lifecycle of products is much shorter today and so change management revolves primarily
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