Procurement & Supply Chain / Sourcing
Procurement Savings ~ (aliases: hard savings, soft savings, cost avoidance, cost reduction, negotiated savings)
The money procurement claims it saved, which may or may not ever show up in the budget.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
The most contested number in the department.
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: ISM