The purchasing process is different in both cases and the following is a list of key differences between them.

The report also said the district's health benefits plan had been mismanaged and its purchasing process poorly coordinated.

I went through the whole purchasing process to verify that the shipping was free.

Due to the ease of the purchasing process, there is no excuse to not support this worthy cause.

Marketers obtain permission before advancing to the next step in the purchasing process.

And they were still secure through the whole purchasing process.

Many large companies have policies that all purchases above a certain value must be performed through a purchasing process.

The calls happen relatively far along the click chain and, in some cases, they even speed up the purchasing process.

Include environmental and social measures in your purchasing process.

In this case, they might be stripped of their direction over the purchasing process, or at least face a shake up within the ranks.