(a) Your company is going through an external performance audit. As the procurement and supply manager, you are required to conduct self-evaluation within your department before the visit of the external auditor. What are the common questions in evaluating your own department's performance? Provide FIVE (5) questions.

[15 marks]

b) In a project kick-off meeting between your company and Yamazaki Corporation from Japan, you are given an expensive-looking gift. The person who presented this to you said that it is customary in their country to present their business partners gifts. You could:

Thank them and decline. (ii) Thank them and accept.

Which would you think would be the most appropriate response? Explain your choice.

[5 marks]