3. Selection of services and supplies

3.1 Anticipate and identify needs

A number of factors can lead to a need to buy:

• the strategy defined by management through its Purchasing policy;

• the publication of new standards or the implementation of new tests or calibrations by laboratories;

• recruitment and/or training of personnel ;

• etc.

What's more, frequent technological advances, competition between suppliers and internal policies mean that laboratories regularly identify new opportunities.