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Spotlight on Procurement

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With cost containment in the front row of institutional priorities, procurement takes a leading role on campus.
Melissa Ezarik
University Business, Sept 2011

Bill Cooper didn't mince words when Stanford University officials contacted him about coming on board as their director of purchasing. "I said, 'No, I'm not interested in a fragmented function and I'm not interested in an institution that has just a director of purchasing,'" recalls Cooper, who now has an office at ... Stanford.

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