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The others may be stakeholders, but the answer is 'stakeholders' - those who have a legitimate inter-est in what is going on.

Value analysis.

This is simply a distinction between VA and VE.

There are different views of 'lead time'; in part depending on where you are standing. The QUESTION NO : refers to total lead time, sometimes referred to as 'true' lead time.

The other lead times all exist, in the eyes of the various parties to any particular transaction.

One should note that the internal lead time (ie within the buying organisation) is often much longer than the external lead time. The idea that 'procurement' or suppliers take a long time to process a re-quirement can be illusory.

This is the notion that the way people behave (and are treated) inside the organisation is likely to reflect the way they behave to others outside the organisation.

Suppliers entertain to retain or generate business - there is a cost to this, which is recovered from customers - the antithesis of value for money. Late bids are sometimes related to inflated prices and instances of malpractice. A late bid is extremely unlikely to increase value for money in the long term and is a serious breach of organisational procedure.

Quality, like most things in business, is ultimately about the customer.

Early buyer involvement