In a recent note, Ted MacNEIL said: > Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:45:18 +0000 > > PS: the crack about the accounts payable department was a cheap shot; it > didn't add anything to the discussion. > But it may have come from the shooter's own experience, not gratuitously.
Have you ever been caught in the middle between a vendor who believes that an automated expiry warning from the product is all that's needed to cause a payment, and an Accounts Payable department that won't cut a check without an invoice? The user must pay attention to the warning; ask Accounts Payable to send a check; wait for A-P to reply, "No invoice; no check"; plead with the vendor to send an invoice; wait for the vendor to generate an invoice outside standard process; check alternately with vendor and A-P whether invoice has been sent and/or received; plead with vendor for temporary key when latencies add up to more than warning interval. Etc. Suppose further that the vendor has only one competitor, and that competitor has announced end-of-marketing of its product. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
