Procurement had been a paper-based, labor-intensive, and inefficient process for large corporations.

It's a tedious, inefficient process that may soon become unnecessary thanks to content-recognition software.

Inspectors originally traveled to where the vehicle was, making for a slow, inefficient process.

A more straightforward example is where a technically inefficient process is being used.

To a thinking machine, the topic was not sensitive at all, a mere biological curiosity, an inefficient and messy natural process.

In contemporary speech, the expression "a snail's pace" is often used to describe a slow, inefficient process.

American firms should be able to hire foreign workers "without having to go through a cumbersome and inefficient process."

When factoring in the cost of labor and working space, manual data entry is a very inefficient process.

"It's an inefficient and expensive process, but we have to do that because the taste of the beef is our whole raison d'etre."

A fax document usually has to be retyped into the computer if the user wants to edit the text, an inefficient process.