We all know that a plan is just a guess, because we don’t have control over the future. So why do we plan? To have an idea of how something will work out in the future, and although things hardly ever work out exactly as planned, when they do we are happy, and when they don’t we are sad cheska-lekarna.com.
With procurement planning it’s similar. We plan procurements for the coming period knowing that it’s just a best case scenario. We try to plan for uncertainties, but when it doesn’t work out it gives us an indication of how we’ve performed and we can use this to improve our future planning exercise. During execution, the closer we get to original plan, the better.
How about you, any thoughts on procurement planning?