What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)

Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by rad_gruchalski on Friday September 09, 2022 @02:37PM (#32783199)

> purchase order is what I think of when doing something like ordering printer paper, not getting an invoice paid

How can you pay an invoice for a service / item you haven’t purchased? If you buy a service from a supplier, you raise a po, you pay an invoice based on the po. As a supplier, I always ask for a po.

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Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020) by ghaff on Friday September 09, 2022 @06:15PM (#32785534)

And there's often also an approved vendor process as well. Big companies are mostly not OK with just expensing some random new supplier.

And yeah, there's a lot of paperwork but maybe you're hiring this gal because she's your sister. Maybe she's really good. Or maybe you're just funneling some money to a family member. As companies scale up they need controls for a lot of things even if they're legit 95% of the time.

And, again, not a software issue. It's a perhaps necessary bigco process issue.

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