Discuss how the Acquisition Manager acts as a gatekeeper.

[Svetlana Terentyeva]

Acquisition manager plays a key role in collecting requests, making sure that the needs can be satisfied efficiently

[Adam Feuerstein]

Ensuring approved/standard models and applications are purchased. Utilizing preferred vendors to take advantage of special pricing.

[Eliza Budhathoki]

The acquisition manager’s role is to manage the flow of incoming IT assets within the company. They must ensure they align with the company’s strategic objectives and criteria. They should be careful in the first phase to evaluate and filter, conducting due diligence to assess their feasibility, potential risks, and benefits. Being a gatekeeper, the acquisition manager helps protect the company from harmful deals while facilitating the identification and purchase of IT Assets. They proceed further and in-depth with the evaluation process first by setting the acquisition standards.

[Bridgette Stuart]

The Acquisition Manager acts as a gatekeeper by ensuring that all the IT goods being purchased/acquisitioned meet the organizational needs, requirements and standards. If it doesn’t meet the needs, requirements and standards, the acquisition manager doesn’t approve and stop the acquisition.

[Adele Asencio]

by weighing the request with policy and standards to determine if the product or asset will be purchased.

[Elizabeth Neal]

The Acquisition Manager acts as a gatekeeper by reviewing the request against policy and standards to determine if the product or asset will be approved / purchased. They are involved in multiple areas of the ITAM program.

[Kira Bunker]

by being the first to address the policies, standards and lifecycles of new or existing assets.

[Sameer Ullal]

Acts as a gatekeeper in the following way:

Evaluates the business need for acquisition.
Evaluates the ROI and TCO.
Ensure policies and procedure are followed.
Ensure acquisition process is followed.
Ensure T&C meets the organization’s goal.
Keeps records of the acquisition.
Evaluates the suppliers & coordinates for procurement.

[Tyler Stoeger]

They are the person (people) who decide which assets to procure and hot to do it

[Kenneth Simmons]

The Acquisiton Manager has an important role in ITAM and acts as a gatekeeper in a way that he selects criteria, reviews and approves or denies requests by weighing in options. they also work with different teams to identfy standard and non-standard requests. Also have an important role of negotiating contracts. This is seomthing I do alot within my role.

[Shavontae Myers]

Acquisition managers work with the organization to determine the best path forward for acquiring an asset

[Heather Waider]

Acquisition managers provide the gateway through which assets are justified, sourced, financed, acquired, deployed, disposed and documented.

[Sello Leburu]

Acquisition Manager makes professional decision when coming to buying IT assets.

[Kim Williams-Matthews]

Acquisition Manager is a gatekeeper because the process starts with a need and the second part is…can you have the item that you want?

[Ryan Silvano]

The acquisition manager manages the key processes in acquiring assets to the organisation.

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