Read and answer the following questions. Cite your sources.

1- What is procurement and how does it impact the supply chain? Use an example with your response.

2-Problem 9.4

Explain how to solve the problem and then respond.

'09.4 Roy Creasey Enterprises, a machine shop, is planning to move to a new, larger location. The new building will be 60 feet long by 40 feet wide. Creasey envisions the building as having six distinct production areas, roughly equal in size. He feels strongly about safety and intends to have marked pathways throughout the building to facilitate the movement of people and materials. See the following building schematic. Building Schematic (with work areas 1-6) His foreman has completed a monthlong study of the number of loads of material that have moved from one process to another in the current building. This information is contained in the following ow matrix. Flow Matrix between Production Processes MATERIALS WELDING DRILLS GRINDERS BENDERS - 50 O 0 50 0 20 0 0 Finally, Creasey has developed the following matrix to indicate distances between Materials Welding Drills 25 Lathes 0 Grinders 50 the work areas shown in the building schematic.