Does anyone out there know of a precedent for the feds simply ordering a company to cough up the dough?
Companies can also eliminate unnecessary inventory by streamlining inter-company ordering, wrote Malcolm Wheatley for Procurement Leaders Executive Network.
As a result of ordering state gas company Naftohaz to sign an import contract with Russia in 2009 she inflicted damages of 1.5bn hrivnas on the company, he added.
For the new ordering system, the company developed the software in house and used hardware from International Business Machines Corp.
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But critics say the government has misused the oil industry, ordering the state oil company PDVSA into food distribution and financing of social programs while neglecting needed investment that has caused production and refining to drop.
OmniVision Technologies (OVTI) reported fiscal second quarter earnings late yesterday, with an outlook that may suggest smartphone makers are ordering fewer parts from the company.
And he says the company has some new ordering technology that will allow people to order their meals over the Web, and then pick them up from any restaurant, at any time, and receive their food hot and fresh within two minutes of arriving.
The brewery company is already committed to ordering another 70 centres to equip pubs from Haverfordwest to Merthyr Tydfil.
Linktone's premise is simple enough: Users send the company a text message, ordering anything from the song "Tong Hua" ("Fairy Tale") to the daily installment of a romance novel.
Those bent on pre-ordering through the Apple Store saw the company's online portal exhaust itself within an hour of the 3:01AM availability -- faster than the iPhone 4 and 4S, and no doubt crushing the hopes of North Americans who value their sleep.
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Doyle explained that online and mobile ordering is a win for consumers and for the company.
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Upon digging deeper into the specifics of a few of these orders, Jane sees that these customers were ordering a product offered by another division of her company.
After Panera posted calorie counts on its menu boards in 2010, the company noticed that 20% of customers began ordering lower-calorie items.
The state would merely have to make sure that its statutory scheme advantaged at least one company that engaged in transactions that cross state lines, such as ordering raw materials from out of state or selling products outside the state.
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As the paper notes, the factories were originally built to serve a PC market driven by corporate customers ordering large volumes of desktop PCs, but they've fast become a drag on the company as growth has shifted towards laptops sold at retail stores.
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The company might create a role for suppliers to allow them to see inventory information and the ordering system.
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Gregory Wasson, president of Walgreens Health Initiatives, which includes his company's mail-order business, insists that you don't get any real bargain ordering by mail.
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