Reducing waste by incorporating used materials into production can cut costs and decrease the price of procurement: less to be procured from the outside and more to be re-utilized from the inside.

通过将使用材料投入生产来减少浪费可以降低成本、减少采购花费：不从外部采购，更多从内部再利用。

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"When you have industrial production of this scale, you have to have a procurement system for food and water," Levy continues.

“如此规模的工业生产必须得有一个负责食物和水的采购系统，”莱维继续说。

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More recently, both the procurement and the production of lower-priced generic products have been made more difficult by yet another trend: the globalization of patent protection.

最近，受到“专利保护全球化”这一潮流的影响，低价非专利产品的采购和生产变得举步维艰。

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Roughly two-thirds of the members of Ceres Company Network have in place targets to reduce GHG emissions, increase renewable energy production and procurement or both.

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