1 Hundreds of different companies have plated items with silver for hundreds of years, usually using different amounts of silver. 2  You could own silver-plated flatware or holloware that was manufactured 200 years ago, 100 years ago, or 10 years ago.
Direct procurement refers to third party services and goods that are part of-, or used in the manufacturing, of the organizationâs products and or services. Indirect procurement refers to categories of goods and services that are supporting the organizationâs business processes.
Sustainable procurement (or Green procurement) is a spending and investment process typically associated with public policy, although it is equally applicable to the private sector.n doing so they must incorporate extrinsic cost considerations into decisions alongside the conventional procurement criteria of price and quality, although in practice the sustainable impacts of a potential supplier's approach are often assessed as a form of quality consideration.