Purchasing Blues

Editor’s Note: This is a reprise of “Summertime Blues“, which was originally posted on July 7, 2007.

Well, it’s time to raise a fuss

  and it’s time to raise a holler

About diminishing returns

  from the corporate dollar

I just heard from my boss

  who governs me

If I don’t save the cash

  he’s gonna fire me

Sometimes I wonder

What I’m gonna do

If there ain’t no cure

For the purchasing blues

My CFO he told me to

  go beat on the supplier

That his margins must be high

  while ours are under water

So I talked to the supplier

  he said costs were elevated

He was losing all his money

  at the rates we had created

Sometimes I wonder

What I’m gonna do

If there ain’t no cure

For the purchasing blues

So I found a consultant

  told her about my problems

And she went and discovered that

  the supplier was just stalling

Material costs were falling

  and the exchange rate was fair

I had wasted all my time

  just pulling out all my hair

Next time I have a problem

  I’ll find me a solution

I’ll find a sourcing expert

  and get my retribution

No more will I wonder

  What I’m gonna do

I’ll find me a cure

  For the purchasing blues