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Re: !!!Letter from The Lego Co.!!!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory
Date: 
Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:13:25 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Paul Sinasohn writes:
PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's obvious neither of you has ever had a career in corporate accounting or
finance!  :-)

Here's what happened:

Lego has brought their PURCHASING department - the people who buy office
supplies and raw plastic and cardboard and stuff -- into the 20th century.

I love the part where they basically say "if you don't verify your
records with us and submit your invoices in the format we want
we will not pay you".  Classic.  I think I'll copy that for a quote
I'm writing---my specified format will be Shakespearean written in
Sanskrit.

KDJ
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LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada



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  Re: !!!Letter from The Lego Co.!!!
 
(...) You may not like it, but this is fairly standard practice in the Big Corporate world. :-) In fact that's why EDI was invented, to allow for interchanging all this mundane stuff like purchase orders/confirmations, shipment advice/receipt, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory)

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(...) <<Lots of stuff about a letter>> PEOPLE!!!...!!! It's obvious neither of you has ever had a career in corporate accounting or finance! :-) Here's what happened: Lego has brought their PURCHASING department - the people who buy office supplies (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.theory)

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