We
thought about that a couple of years ago as our vendors started extending direct
web access to our professional buyers. No one wants to order from a
vendor's website and then re-enter the information in the legacy or ERP systems
for accounting.
Doesn't VMI sort of work that way?
If you
are a mid to large corporation and want to drive the purchasing down in the
organization there becomes some compelling reasons to consider an eProcurement
system such as Ariba buyer which can allow you to create a purchase req directly
from a vendor's website catalog and either push the order through your
purchasing system directly or as a carbon copy eliminating the dup
entry.
Robert Paterson
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From: Electronic Data Interchange Issues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steven W. Mahler
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 12:12 PM
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Subject: vendor initiated purchase order
Does anyone know of any companies doing "reverse 850's" in other words having a vendor issue an 855 prior to receiving an 850. The reason behind this question is that we want to allow our employees to select and order items through our trading partner's web site but we do not want to require double data entry.
