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Procurement/Purchasing professionals must have formal training and education in law. Do you agree or disagree?

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Question added by Nadeem Asghar , Supply Chain Consultant/Trainer , Independent Practitioner
Date Posted: 2016/12/10
Heba Fouad Youssef Kamal
by Heba Fouad Youssef Kamal , Online Sales Specialist , Forever Living Products

I think it can be gained during the job by experience and not a must

Elke Woofter
by Elke Woofter , Project Assistant , American Technical Associates

I would have to disagree, however it helps to understand some legal aspects of this profession if you have some education in this field and finance and have no understanding what needs to be done.

Russell Haynes
by Russell Haynes , Managing Director , Metric Global Solutions Pte. Ltd.

Not necessarily if there is a legal support within the framework for contractual development.  Do agree it is a crucial element given the severity / impact of direct / indirect flows, and the fact that your needs impact greatly the capability of others - e.g. what you procure and produce may be a material for your buyers process, hence the procurement / production chain.  

Khalid Abuzaid
by Khalid Abuzaid , Supply Chain Director , National Integrated Industries Complex – Jordan

Sure I agree, because more knowledge in the law this means more secure once you fix the contract with the supplier 

jasmina malnar
by jasmina malnar , Head of Marketing and Indirect Procurement , Hrvatski telekom

Not necessarily formal training but good working knowledge and knack for it, absolutely ;)

Hussain  Alshagrawi
by Hussain Alshagrawi , Freelancer Consultant , Freelancer

In some companies, they have Legal Advisors who will review any contracts or T&Cs for major projects to assure suitability of the T&C with the Scope of work and avoid any Legal implications during  implementation especially if contractor is non resident or in other country. In this case legal training will not be mandatory. However, having such training will certainly increase PPO effectiveness and awareness of expected risks in any contracts and assure  that they are well covered to protect the company from such liabilities or may be import discrepancies/violations in case of Materials/Goods.

Md Fazlur Rahman
by Md Fazlur Rahman , Procurement Specialist , Engineering and Planning Consultants Ltd

Training  is law may be helpful and not a necessity 

Mohamed Eissa
by Mohamed Eissa , Procurement Manager , LG electronics , Egypt

Procurement/Purchasing professionals must have formal training and education in law. Do you agree or disagree?

yes, sure

for example cartel practice, some countries has anti cartel laws & it's very serious if procurement members fall under this practices even he didn't know it's against law, there already some fines some big overseas companies for cartel practice, also there criminal part may expose procurement member to jail.

So, if he got trained on some laws related will be very helpful

The legal aspects of procurement profession can be learned on job  

Ali Akbar Mazumder
by Ali Akbar Mazumder , Deputy Manager (Planning) , Meghna Group of Industries

Purchasing/Procurement and law are two different things. Yes, in some portion of procurement activities, law may be directly or indirectly related but its not necessary that one must have formal education in law. However, in case of learning, sky is the limit. There is no disadvantage of learning..

Not necessary to be involve in laws...should know about work thoroughly thats enough to lead perfectly 

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