Youve received your directive from the Vice President of Procurement: Provide a recommendation for a local provider of island Knight cologne. A reasonably quick recommendation would be to your credit. You have not had much experience working with this particular product line. However, a potential local supplier for this cologne does immediately come to mind. You recall that your roommate from college manages a scented soap factory in northem Ohio that has been running under capacity. What is the best first step for your decision-making process? Call upon more experienced managers who work with similar products and formulate a list of potential vendors. Send the VP of Procurement a memo requesting more specic information about any issues with the current provider and the company is looking for in a vendor. Take advantage of your networks and call your college roommate, Carl, to see if his factory would be able to produce the cologne at th cost vou need