Department · COMAH Report
Commercial
Scope
Procurement and supply chain, contract lifecycle, supplier qualification, JV and partner commercial governance. The function that owns the boundary between the company and the third parties it depends on.
The reframing
"Procurement is not the work — it is one slice of the work. Commercial owns supplier capability assurance (Element 3), contractor risk (Element 5), supplier KPIs (Element 9) and contract assurance (Element 10) just as much as it owns tenders and contracts (Element 7). Treating Commercial as 'the people who buy things' guarantees the supplier base will be a source of risk the management system cannot see."
Footprint across the framework
No mappings yet for Commercial under COMAH Report.
Where Commercial pivots into other departments
→ EngineeringVendor technical assurance, specification compliance
→ Operations & MaintenanceService contracts, contractor performance
→ Finance & LegalSanctions, contract terms, financial assurance of suppliers