What are the advantages and disadvantages of procurement planning in the organisation?

Advantages of procurement planning  are: ensures that procurement cycle are followed and each person in the cycle gets to know his or her task in delivering the product, it provides time frame indicating when the procurement process should be initiated; it is also used for soliciting/lobbying for funds for donors.

The disadvantages are: it is bureaucratic and it has been know to be the causes of delays in delivering products and services.