{"id":30,"date":"2026-07-15T21:32:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkandoman.ir\/2026\/07\/15\/sourcing-brief-en\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:32:45","slug":"sourcing-brief-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkandoman.ir\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Where does a qualified sourcing mandate begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unclear request generates unclear responses. Before approaching the market, the item, specification, quantity, application and timing should be defined.<\/p>\n<h2>Minimum brief<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Product name and application<\/li>\n<li>Specification, model or grade<\/li>\n<li>Quantity and unit<\/li>\n<li>Required timing<\/li>\n<li>Preferred origin and destination<\/li>\n<li>Documents and acceptance criteria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Assumptions should be separated from facts so proposals are not compared on hidden guesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourcing does not begin with searching for suppliers. It begins with requirement, specification, quantity, timing and acceptance criteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkandoman.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkandoman.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkandoman.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkandoman.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arkandoman.ir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkandoman.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkandoman.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkandoman.ir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}