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To: craig crawford who wrote (511)	11/17/1999 12:34:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	of 1094

I think the problem with Harmon on this b2b topic is that he doesn't have any direct experience with automation of this type. The difficulty of automating purchasing in somebody's supply chain is too great to justify for a lot of goods... and issues even exist for the high volume items... if you have a purchasing schedule that comes from your ERP that says you need 10,000 SKU WB123456 from Intel, and Intel changes the SKU to WB123456a (which they do all the time to deal with their own inventory) - you're screwed. There is a company dealing with this issue (agil) but these are things that need to be chipped away for now, Commerce and Ariba are doing that, "chipping". Even an About.com in a particular industry (which is what Harmon says vert is) is a huge improvement over what is there now... basically nothing. And there are always going to be those things you choose not to automate, Vert can take those. I do agree with Harmon that C1 is the innovation leader, however (vs Ariba - I think he believes that).

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