Purchasing
Elizabethtown College's mission in purchasing is
- To buy at the lowest cost, not lowest price, keeping consistent with required quality and service;
- To minimize the cost of acquisition by improving the efficiency of operations and procedures;
- To achieve a high degree of cooperation and coordination with user departments;
- To develop reliable alternative sources of supply to promote a competitive atmosphere in performance and pricing;
- To develop and maintain good College-supplier relationships;
- To search for effective new products;
- To strive to introduce standardization where possible;
- To maintain complete records.













