Tom Mills, author of Procure Bites, recently gave us 8 signs you were meant for Procurement, which left some of you, in organizations where Purchasing is still treated as an old school function, and run by old-school die-hards who still think its the (19)80s, wondering where it came from because that’s NOT the personality profile you’re used to seeing.

Although Tom’s profile is the profile you want to see in Procurement, if your Procurement organization is still the Island of Misfit Toys, that’s not the profile you have. This post is for you and describes your Purchasing department where everyone there was put there because they didn’t belong (or want to be) anywhere else, and for one reason or another the organization can’t (or won’t) get rid of them just yet.

Enjoy!