In my experience, the procurement process is very straight forward but can sometimes be expensive. There have been several occasions where I have found a given product for a relatively cheap price but because it’s not on the approved vendor list for my company, I’m forced to place a PO from a more pricey vendor. We have an office administrator that we run all of our PO’s by. Often times, we just email our Office Administrator a link of the product we’re looking for and she’ll find it from one of the approved vendors and process the PO for us.