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> 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 / it
by rad_gruchalski 4y ago
> 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.
- ghaff 4y agoAnd 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.