HFP Einkaufsleiter key terms
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- Category strategy
A justified plan linking actual demand and supply-market evidence to sourcing levers, ownership and intended outcomes, rather than one universal mandatory procurement recipe.
- Supply risk
The relevant uncertainty and consequences of obtaining the required input under actual conditions, distinct from purchase value alone.
- Sole source
A stated market condition in which only one viable source is available, distinct from choosing one supplier despite qualified alternatives.
- Supplier account attractiveness
How relevant business and relationship factors make a buyer’s account valuable to a supplier, which can differ from the buyer’s own dependence on that supplier.
- Total cost boundary
The explicitly included purchase, operating, logistics, quality, financing and disposition costs over a comparable period, requiring consistent assumptions and no double counting.
- Reservation point
A negotiated boundary beyond which a party would prefer its relevant alternative under stated authority, distinct from an ambitious opening target.
- Simple annualization
Scaling a periodic cost or rate using a stated time convention without compounding, which differs from an effective annual compounded rate.
- Price markup
A profit amount expressed relative to the cost base in the supplied calculation, distinct from a margin expressed relative to selling price.
- Decoupling point
The boundary where relevant work transitions from forecast-driven preparation to customer-order-driven activity in the stated operating model.
- Postponement
Delaying a relevant product or process differentiation until better demand information is available, within actual capacity, timing and compliance constraints.
- Center-of-gravity approximation
A weighted coordinate calculation used as a simplified location aid, which does not establish all road-network, fixed-cost, feasibility or service constraints.
- End-to-end tradeoff
An effect across multiple supply-chain activities or organizations where optimizing one local measure can worsen the intended overall outcome.
- Joint service metric
A measure of records satisfying several defined conditions together, which is not generally identified by multiplying separate marginal percentages.
- Bullwhip ratio
A supplied comparison of upstream order variability with downstream demand variability under consistent definitions, not a universal proof of one root cause.
- Shared upstream dependency
A common source or resource relied on by nominally different suppliers or routes, which can make their disruption risks correlated.
- Master-data control
Accountable maintenance of meaningful identifiers and definitions across systems, whose absence can propagate errors despite technically successful integration.
- Benefit ownership
Accountable responsibility for tracking whether an intended business outcome is realized and maintained, distinct from merely delivering a technical project milestone.
- Portfolio priority
A justified relative allocation of resources across initiatives based on value, risk, dependencies and constraints, not simply funding the most visible local request.
- Continuing capability
The people, process, data, resources and ownership needed to sustain a useful operating result after a project or training event ends.
- Decision authority
The actual permitted scope for approving an action or accepting relevant consequences, which a label, dashboard or recommendation does not confer by itself.