Completer / finisher sees the task through to the end.

A scarce resource, in my experience...

Specifying the need and checking the invoice would come from the buyer's side.

The other two options would be carried out by the seller.

All three of them.

CIPS appears to have excluded these three possible candidates for inclusion, concentrating instead

on quantity, quality, price, place, time.

Or QQPPT.

It's a 'silo effect'. Essentially this is about 'walls' being unintentionally created between functions of

the organisation. Silos in the original sense are used for storing grain (tall thin buildings, common in

the American mid-West); more recently for storing military missiles.

In the organisation this lack of ease in communicating can dent the performance of the organisation.

The other answers offered are irrelevant with Oreo being a type of 'much loved' American biscuit.

So anyway, 'silo'.

This is a reference to the idea that by thinking positively, one can achieve more - by having a 'can do'

attitude.

The other answers are puns on the word 'positivity'. More or less.

This a description of Revolution.

The other answers shown may be the subject of other questions in this test.

Cost reduction is often seen as being not only the primary role, but sometimes the only role, of the

procurement function.

The other answer options give an indication of what activities can sometimes be more significant.

Being aware of one's own strengths and weaknesses, one's effect on others, etc - self-awareness.

It is in your own self-interest to drive carefully, as well as being in the interests of other road-users.

The people who become CIPS members self-select through their application to the Institute for

membership, and through their studies.

Kaizen - continuous improvement.

Small changes.

The other answers are essentially unrelated and facetious.

Segregation or separation of duties - making different people / line managers responsible for differ-

ent stages of the process, making it less likely that fraud can occur.