MANAGING AND SECURING SUPPLIES is a key business function that is responsible for the coordination of planning, sourcing, purchasing, moving, storing and controlling materials in an optimum manner so as to provide a pre-decided service to the customer at a minimum cost. In its process of managing, MANAGING AND SECURING SUPPLIES has such subfields as inventory management, value analysis, receiving, stores, and management of obsolete, slow-moving and nonmoving. MANAGING AND SECURING SUPPLIES scope is vast. Its sub-functions include Materials planning and control, Purchasing, Stores and Inventory Management besides others