{"id":2837,"date":"2010-03-04T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/03\/04\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T13:00:45","slug":"how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"How Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a few interesting differences between how a small-to-midsize business handles procurement and how a large business handles procurement. One of them is that large business procurement middle managers tend to be a little more paranoid about selecting small, less expensive suppliers.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement & Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of political pressure on a procurement middle manager in a large company. If they take a risk on a small supplier and it doesn\u2019t work out, many of that manager\u2019s peers will think \u201cHow could s\/he have been dumb enough to go with that small, unknown supplier when we could have gone with the big boys?\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this mindset prevents big companies from achieving all of the cost savings that are available to them. It reminds me of an old expression that produces that nails-on-the-chalkboard reaction from me: \u201cNobody ever was fired for buying IBM\u201d or something like that. (Ambien<\/a>) <\/p>\n

Celebrity fashion has a parallel, believe it or not. Celebrities feel so much pressure to buy expensive clothes due to the fear of embarrasment that would overcome them if they were spotted in clothes that the rest of us wear (gasp!).<\/p>\n

That being said, I was pleasantly surprised to come across the below video showing celebrities wearing some threads that are available in the malls that \u201cthe rest of us\u201d shop at.<\/p>\n

If celebrities can get over their fear of embarrassment by opening themselves up to a wider variety of sources (yet still making smart decisions), don\u2019t ya think that procurement middle managers can do the same?<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a few interesting differences between how a small-to-midsize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"\nHow Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are a few interesting differences between how a small-to-midsize […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-03-04T21:33:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-03T13:00:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/nlpa-images-057.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"939\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Galo Matagay\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa\"},\"headline\":\"How Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion?\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-03-04T21:33:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-03T13:00:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/\"},\"wordCount\":281,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Procurement\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/\",\"name\":\"How Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-03-04T21:33:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-03T13:00:45+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/\",\"name\":\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\",\"description\":\"The Next Level Purchasing Association\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/NLPA-logo-small-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/NLPA-logo-small-1.png\",\"width\":149,\"height\":50,\"caption\":\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/next-level-purchasing-association\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCrNZYjcLcaNA4xMKQHEGamw\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nextlevelpurch\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa\",\"name\":\"Galo Matagay\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34d4be7be9c43eeb480e7e32739c2f3f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34d4be7be9c43eeb480e7e32739c2f3f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Galo Matagay\"},\"description\":\"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean consequat rutrum ipsum quis iaculis. Duis non porta purus, tincidunt tristique mi. Cras eleifend tincidunt mollis. Aliquam egestas velit vitae interdum egestas. Aliquam vel lorem egestas lectus porttitor volutpat nec sit amet enim. Nullam bibendum vestibulum imperdiet.\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)","og_description":"There are a few interesting differences between how a small-to-midsize […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/","og_site_name":"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/","article_published_time":"2010-03-04T21:33:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-03T13:00:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":939,"url":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/nlpa-images-057.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Galo Matagay","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@nextlevelpurch","twitter_site":"@nextlevelpurch","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Galo Matagay","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/"},"author":{"name":"Galo Matagay","@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa"},"headline":"How Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion?","datePublished":"2010-03-04T21:33:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-03T13:00:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/"},"wordCount":281,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Procurement"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/","url":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/","name":"How Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-03-04T21:33:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-03T13:00:45+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/how-could-there-possibly-be-a-parallel-between-procurement-celebrity-fashion\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How Could There Possibly Be A Parallel Between Procurement & Celebrity Fashion?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/","name":"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)","description":"The Next Level Purchasing Association","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#organization","name":"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)","url":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/NLPA-logo-small-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/08\/NLPA-logo-small-1.png","width":149,"height":50,"caption":"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/next-level-purchasing-association\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCrNZYjcLcaNA4xMKQHEGamw","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/nextlevelpurch"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa","name":"Galo Matagay","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34d4be7be9c43eeb480e7e32739c2f3f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34d4be7be9c43eeb480e7e32739c2f3f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Galo Matagay"},"description":"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean consequat rutrum ipsum quis iaculis. Duis non porta purus, tincidunt tristique mi. Cras eleifend tincidunt mollis. Aliquam egestas velit vitae interdum egestas. Aliquam vel lorem egestas lectus porttitor volutpat nec sit amet enim. Nullam bibendum vestibulum imperdiet."}]}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18370,"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/18370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}