It's amazing how much time can be wasted with routine corporate purchases. Numerous ways abound, of course, for purchasing agents or ordinary employees to automate the buying process. You can make requests through management approval, from accounting to transmission to the vendor. Most of those ways, however, are complex and expensive to implement.
Employees access the server to submit a purchase request.
The request is then funneled to a manager, who approves it. Once approved, the order can be transmitted electronically to a vendor using the XML protocol. Finally, when the employee receives the goods, he logs back into the Buying Chain Web site to complete the transaction. Com, FatBrain and Office Depot. Although the first part of the application ran successfully, the second part crashed on us again and again, giving numerous Dr. Watson errors.