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In lugnet.market.theory, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
> 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.
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,
invoices, etc... the idea being that if everyone accepted a common
electronic format, less paper.
It even sort of works. Just lots of interconnections to build.
Mercator, the firm I work for as a system architect, is a pretty significant
(but not the only) player in interconnecting EDI and proprietary systems and
such like.
++Lar
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