Large Hospitals Purchase More Than 15,000 Individual Products on a Routine

Multiple Choice

Large hospitals purchase more than 15,000 individual products on a routine basis. One challenge for a hospital's purchasing department is that the various hospital departments use different product descriptions and classifications for the same item. One purchasing manager plans to institute a hospital-wide purchasing policy that gives a specific code to each item. In doing so,what is the purchasing manager engaging in?

A) consistency planning  
B) organizational autonomy  
C) standardization  
D) problem empowerment