Assume that the Green Leaf Tea Company has decided to focus its information system development efforts on its procurement business process. At present, Green Leaf purchases all its tea directly from tea-leaf farms, but soon it has plans to begin purchasing at spot market prices offered on overseas commodity exchanges.

Required

a. Generate a rough sketch of Green Leaf’s procurement process.

b. Indicate changes in the purchasing process that might occur as a result of Green Leaf’s move to purchase in the spot market.

c. Identify at least four sub-processes for the procurement process.