Below Is a Narrative of the "Determine Requirements" Portion (Bubble

question 119

Essay

Below is a narrative of the "Determine Requirements" portion (bubble 1.0) of the purchasing process described in Chapter 12.
Narrative Description
Bubble 1.1 receives and stores the requests received from the inventory-management process (inventory's purchase requisition) and various departments (purchase requisition-goods and services).
At predetermined intervals, bubble 1.2 accesses the accumulated requests held in the purchase requisition data; sorts the requests, perhaps by vendor or product type; and combines that data with the inventory master data to determine what purchases need to be made.
Required:
From the DFD (TB Figure 12.1) and the narrative description above, explode bubble 1.0 into a lower-level diagram showing the details of that process.

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Definitions:

Tacit Knowledge

Tacit Knowledge is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by writing it down or verbalizing it, often gained through personal experience.

Direct Experiences

Experiences gained through firsthand involvement or activity, without intermediaries.

Evidence-Based Management Model

A method of decision-making that involves gathering, evaluating, and using the best available evidence from multiple sources to increase the likelihood of a favorable outcome.

Intuition

The ability to understand or know something immediately based on a feeling rather than conscious reasoning.