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  • Crosby, Philip

    An American quality guru who rose to international fame as a management consultant. Crosby is best known for his zero defects standard and popularizing many slogans, such as “Do it right the first time.” (Martin & Miller, 2006)

  • Cross-Docking

    A distribution system in which freight moves in and out of a distribution center or point without ever being stored there. (ISM, 2000)

  • Cross-Functional Team

    A group of employees from different departments who work together to accomplish a specific task. The team may be permanent or ad hoc, and may include suppliers and customers, as appropriate. Examples of procurement specific teams may include Commodity Procurement Strategy Team, Sourcing Team, Supplier Performance Evaluation Team, Supplier Certification Team.

  • Cross-Organizational Synergies

    Proactive activities by supply management to identify opportunities to share best practices or coordinate sourcing programs to reduce costs, usually accomplished through cross-functional teams.

  • Crowdsourcing (otherwise known as Cyberspace Outsourcing)

    A form of institutional outsourcing that solicits a large group of people who are not directly employed by, or who lack a contract with the originating institution. Solicitations are typically put out in the form of a wide call on the Internet, and the chosen work-product may or may not yield compensation. Crowdsourcing is an innovative way to leverage distributed knowledge on the Internet so that highly intractable problems can be solved in a low-cost manner, typically by shifting time costs to the experts who are interested in helping to the solve the quandary. This frees up institutional employees to focus on core competencies.

  • Crown Property

    CANADA Property to which title is vested in the Crown, i.e., federal, territorial, and provincial governments.

  • Crowson Decision

    City of Richmond v. J.A. Crowson Co. was a legal case in 1989 in which the United States Supreme Court held that the City of Richmond Virginia’s minority set-aside program, giving preference to minority business enterprises (MBE) in the awarding of municipal contracts, was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. This court case prompted public sector agencies to move toward using the term “contract goals” in its construction projects in seeking a good faith effort on the part of the prime contractor to have a certain level of minority subcontracting participation in the project.

  • CSG


    See Also: Council of State Governments (CSG)

  • CSIG


    See Also: United Nations’ Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)

  • Cultural Diversity

    Ethnic, gender, racial, and socioeconomic variety in a situation, institution, or group; the coexistence of different ethnic, gender, racial, and socioeconomic groups within one social unit. (Dictionary, 2015)