{"id":2499,"date":"2020-11-17T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2008\/07\/17\/soliciting-donations-from-suppliers-your-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:09:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T15:09:17","slug":"soliciting-donations-from-suppliers-your-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/soliciting-donations-from-suppliers-your-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Soliciting Donations From Suppliers &#8211; Your Thoughts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I received a request from one of our suppliers for a donation. It was for a good cause, so I obliged.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>And that got me thinking\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen a lot of instances where purchasing professionals solicit donations from their suppliers. Educational institutions asking for supplier donations to scholarship funds. Professional association members asking for supplier donations to their golf outings. Individual purchasers asking for supplier donations to their walk-a-thons.<\/p>\n<p>I have opinions on this topic, but am interested to know what you think about the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is supplier donation solicitation truly professional practice?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a breach of courtesy or even ethics?<\/li>\n<li>Does it put undue pressure on suppliers to part with their money?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a covert \u201cor else\u201d implied when soliciting donations?<\/li>\n<li>Can this lead to higher costs for goods and services for your organization if the supplier notices a pattern?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That comment link is right down there.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m waiting to hear from you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And, oh, if you\u2019re in the vendor community, I\u2019d like to hear from you, too, regarding how you feel about getting solicited for donations by buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I received a request from one of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Soliciting Donations From Suppliers \u2013 Your Thoughts?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u2019ve seen a lot of instances where purchasing professionals solicit donations from their suppliers. 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