strategic purchasing definition
Strategic purchasing is the process of planning, implementing, evaluating, and controlling strategic and operating purchasing decisions for directing all activities of the purchasing function toward opportunities consistent with the firm's capabilities to achieve its long-term goals (Carr and Smeltzer, 1997).actical purchasing is typically a subset of activities and processes within the strategic purchasing approach. It focuses on operational purchasing requirements based on information from a limited environmental scan (Lysons and Farrington, 2006).