A large international retailer has sourcing agents worldwide to search out suppliers of products according the best quality/price ratio for products that it sells in its stores in the United States. The retailer has a total of 131 sourcing agents internationally. Of these 51 specialize in textiles, 32 in footwear, and 17 in both textiles and footwear. The remainder are general sourcing agents with no particular specialization. All the sourcing agents are in a general database with a common E-mail address. When a purchasing manager from any of the retail stores needs information on its sourced products they send an E-mail to the general database address. Anyone of the 131 sourcing agents is able to respond to the E-mail.