Procurement is one component of the broader concept of sourcing and acquisition. Procurement is a component of the broader concept of sourcing and acquisition. Distributor companies are experts in sourcing creative promotional products. Sourcing and engineering locations were also chosen by suppliers. LCCS falls under a broad category of procurement efforts called global sourcing. Strategic vendor partnerships is another strategy the company is using in the sourcing process. Increasingly, companies are sourcing their human resource requirement globally. The sourcing plan is the result of all planning efforts on strategic sourcing. Primary Investment - Sourcing, bidding for and winning greenfield infrastructure projects. The team took full responsibility for design, sourcing, marketing and financing. Firms have begun to apply governance mechanisms to avoid adverse effects of conflict mineral sourcing. Amazon was sourcing and selling items without properly determining if they are genuine. Initially, Wal-Mart relied on intermediaries in the sourcing process. The salad bar chain, started on the premise of sourcing food as locally as possible. Starbucks set a goal of ethically sourcing 100% of its coffee beans by 2015.