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NIST recommends segmenting suppliers into groupings. What is the purpose of that segmentation?

  1. To satisfy a regulatory requirement for a supplier register that records every relationship the organisation holds
  2. To determine which suppliers require a signed agreement
  3. To negotiate volume discounts across supplier categories
  4. To focus attention and assurance effort on the suppliers of greatest strategic or operational importance
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Answer: D. To focus attention and assurance effort on the suppliers of greatest strategic or operational importance

SP 800-161r1 says an assessment might group suppliers into categories such as strategic, mission-critical, sustaining or standard, and that this segmentation helps focus attention and assign priority to critical suppliers of most importance.

Source: NIST SP 800-161 Rev. 1 (NIST) — Sec. 3.1.1 Acquisition in the C-SCRM Strategy

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