CIPS Updated L4M5 Exam Questions and Answers by emaan

According to Paul Steele's 'The Seller's Perspective', customer can be classified into 4 categories as below:

To increase the leverage in negotiation, buyer may increase its attractiveness and/or increase spend value. In this scenario, the buyer is already attractive to supplier as it always pays on-time, but the spend is still low. So to have greater leverage, the buyer has to increase its spend volume by spend concentration. Spend concentration may take many forms as following:

- Vendor base reduction

- Volume pooling

- Volume redistribution

- Volume consolidation across categories

- Standardisation and harmonisation of specifications

- Forming purchasing consortia

LO 1, AC 1.3

Understanding where and with whom your supplier spends their money, or understanding the 'cost breakdowns' or 'price build-up' of the goods and services you purchase from the supplier, will help you know

where and when they can offer price concessions.

Cost information can be expressed with more impact through graphs that can be created using Excel and PowerPoint or other softwares. There are two commonly used models known as 'spend waterfall'

and 'spend tree'. Spend waterfall shows the build-up of costs, while the spend tree shows all the spends that an organisation makes.

There is no graph known as 'spend candlesticks'. Candlestick chart is a style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency.

The aggregate expenditure model is a method of calculating GDP. The aggregate expenditure model focuses on the relationships between production (GDP) and planned spending: GDP = planned

spending = consumption + investment + government purchases + net exports.

Absorption costing is an approach to allocating overheads in which indirect costs are loaded or absorbed into direct costs related to specific jobs, processes or outputs, using an estimated basis of allocation.

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