Identifying the most reliable and cost-effective supplier of internet services.

Buying all of the resources that a business needs to function.

Ensuring that quality products are produced and delivered to the customer.

Determines how much to produce now and in the future, so as to ensure sufficient availability of stock.

Determines what type of equipment should be bought to produce goods, and how it should be laid out.

Buying the inputs needed to produce the product.

Determines what to produce, how to produce it, and what to produce it with.

Pays for products and services using either cash or on credit.

Ensures that goods purchased are of the correct quality and quantity, and that they are received at the correct time.

Calculating the quantities of inputs that are required to be purchased in order for production to take place.