{"id":2186,"date":"2006-07-12T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2006\/07\/12\/the-purchasing-agents-10-commandments\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:51:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:51:04","slug":"the-purchasing-agents-10-commandments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/the-purchasing-agents-10-commandments\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purchasing Agent&#8217;s 10 Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last post, I speculated about the popularity of the article \u201cThe Purchasing Agent\u2019s 10 Commandments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>I was tracking the visits to the Web-based version of the article throughout the day and it seemed like it was going to rack up one of the highest first-day hit totals of all my purchasing articles. 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