In my shop the incentives to procurement are part of the issue
They are measured on how much discount they negotiate, not how keen the price is... Therefore if I try to sell them a $1000 Ethernet cable an they get it down to $100 then they will consider themselves a massive winner, regardless that the cost should have been $4.
I really have a thing about measures that defeat the behaviours that were intended .. grrr...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
