Talk:Procurement

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Contents 1 Origins 2 Merge with Procuring 3 Merging with Supply chain diversification & Supplier relationship management 4 Merging with Supplier diversity

[edit] Origins

Anyone know the origins of this word?

It is latin for 'pygmie'

[edit] Merge with Procuring

I agree, Procuring is a sad example of a stub. --Emana 16:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

On second thought, I disagree to myself. We should move most of the procuring article into the Trafficking in human beings article, then Redirect the empty article here. It's been three weeks, so may I go ahead and do so? If there aren't any more comments within 24 hours, I'll start the process. --Emana 09:38, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Not sure; I think procuring has a specific legal meaning in a number of jurisdictions. Probably better to keep procuring as a law-stub with something like This article is about trafficking in human beings; for the acquisition of goods and services, see Procurement at the top. 193.128.127.33 09:32, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

The word procuring itself is not specific to human trafficking. If put into context, the surrounding statements may point to the procurement of humans, but alone, it may as well mean to procure food and supplies (as in the millitary). As it was pointed out, "procuring" by itself can mean many different things in different regions and situations, I'd say we should make the procuring article more of a disambiguation page that points to human trafficking AND other articles. So all in all, we will disambig these articles instead of merging. --Emana 17:35, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging with Supply chain diversification & Supplier relationship management

I have to say nay to these two - but would be great if those two articles were merged with Supply management and cleaned up. --Emana 16:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

What about strategic sourcing, should that be included into supply chain and then strategic sourcing and procurement are two key components of supply chain?

Thank you Cbayley for your input. Sounds like there's a whole bunch of articles that could possibly be merged... may be even have their own namespace? --Emana 18:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Since it's been three weeks, I'll start merging the two articles stated above first, then try to merge more similar articles together if I have consensus from the contributors on those articles. I'll wait 24 hours for any more comments. --Emana 09:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merging with Supplier diversity

I have to say nay to this one too. As supplier diversity is more about racism, sexism, and culture rather than industrial practices. It's closer to Equal Opportunity Employment than anything else. --Emana 16:39, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

This too has been three weeks. So it has been decided by silent consensus that supplier diversity will not be merged with procurement, but instead improved as it own article.--Emana 09:44, 23 October 2006 (UTC)