Which of the following are prepared at the request of external parties?
A) Sales proposals
B) Solicited proposals
C) Unsolicited proposals
D) Internal proposals
E) External proposals
Answer: B
Explanation: B) The most significant factor in planning a proposal is whether the recipient has asked you to submit a proposal. Solicited proposals are generally prepared at the request of external parties that require a product or a service, but they may also be requested by such internal sources as management or the board of directors.
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a. true b. false
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 requisition¾goods 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.
