0 the process of getting supplies:
a substantial budget for the procurement of military supplies
1 the process by which an organization buys the products or services it needs from other organizations:
As well as considering the extreme theoretical cases he looks at the roles of organization and procurement in practice.
From the tools themselves archaeologists can reconstruct a variety of actions: raw material selectivity and procurement, manufacturing sequences, use, and discard.
This slim volume assesses the coal procurement practices and strategies of the electricity utilities.
There will be training needs, procurement and logistic supply issues to address, and cost issues to work through with producers.
Slight variations in resource procurement and / or paste preparation may be inferred to have caused them to diverge from the reference-group profiles.
For major grain crops such as wheat, rice, jowar, and bajra, the procurement prices funtioned as the minimum support prices.
The sub-committee on manpower was given the task of reviewing the problem of speedy procurement and the maximum utilization for war of the nation's manpower.
These sometimes involved significant changes in the overall grain procurement arrangement but more commonly were frequent 'switch-ons' or 'switch-offs' of, or modifications to, policy measures.