Consider any recent purchase you made at a department store such as Target, Walmart, or Kmart. A business process that occurred was the sale of a product to you. However, to make that sale, the department store had to engage in many other processes that support that sales process, or result from that sales process. These other processes may precede or occur after that sales process.

Required:
a. Describe any necessary supporting processes that precede the sale of a product to you.
b. Describe any necessary supporting processes that occur after a sale to you.