Comments on: Change can be good http://blogs.inovis.com/2008/07/01/change-can-be-good/ Power Profitable Business Communities™ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Craig Dunham http://blogs.inovis.com/2008/07/01/change-can-be-good/#comment-1426 Craig Dunham Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:42:47 +0000 http://inovis.wordpress.com/?p=629#comment-1426 Hmmm.... I can't bring Myself to endorse a single solution for our vendors - big OR small...! I've found too many times, supplier ABC uses "brand X" for EDI and, as mentioned above, I can't force them to choose just one - even if it's just for the cost effects Meg mentions above. I actually do have a fairly streamlined way of dealing with our suppliers - any of the 3rd party providers they use (whether Inovis or the competition) must have tested against our specs through our testing program (ironically, Inovis's Compliance Link) before becoming "approved". This helps our suppliers - which are quite a few of those SMBs (Small to Medium Businesses) - aka Mom n Pop shops - choose the best solution for their needs - whether based on cost, options, simplicity, or whatever - and makes all of use happy. Hmmm…. I can’t bring Myself to endorse a single solution for our vendors – big OR small…! I’ve found too many times, supplier ABC uses “brand X” for EDI and, as mentioned above, I can’t force them to choose just one – even if it’s just for the cost effects Meg mentions above.

I actually do have a fairly streamlined way of dealing with our suppliers – any of the 3rd party providers they use (whether Inovis or the competition) must have tested against our specs through our testing program (ironically, Inovis’s Compliance Link) before becoming “approved”.

This helps our suppliers – which are quite a few of those SMBs (Small to Medium Businesses) – aka Mom n Pop shops – choose the best solution for their needs – whether based on cost, options, simplicity, or whatever – and makes all of use happy.

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