[Execution] A purchase was made outside process and now procurement has to clean it up. What do you do?

I would first stabilize the situation. I need to know what was bought, what has already been committed, what commercial terms are now in play, and what risk the business is carrying because the process was bypassed. The immediate goal is to stop the exposure from getting worse.

After that, I would make the consequence visible internally. Off-process buying usually feels fast in the moment and expensive later. If procurement...