Re: Is ERP dead?

[boothm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Jumping ship?  to where? were there any trends mentioned?

<rant> 

Why do sellers get caught up in price bidding?  This is a focused and 
clear way for sellers to subsidize a spiteful group of buyers that feel 
that beating up vendors is a legitimate way to make profits.  Almost every 
bid of any size has several bids that can be categorized as: 

A: bids in the middle, all about the same price, and representative of the 
proper price for the product. 

B: the bids that are obviously way out of line and too high.  Those guys 
made a mistake but its OK, they won't get the bid anyway. 

C: Then there's the last pitifully small group of bidders that made a 
mistake on the bid and priced the goods and/or services too low.  One of 
these mistakes will be the winner of the bid.  Either the bidder will 
honor the bid and subsidize the buyer yet again, or the bidder has made a 
lot of bad bids and is on the skids and will soon disappear.  In any event 
the correct and legitimate bidders won't get this business. 

The moral is that if you are a successful bidder then you probably have 
made a bad mistake.  Your competitors know what the item is worth.

</rant>

_______________________
Booth Martin
booth@martinvt.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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"Jim Franz" <franz400@triad.rr.com>
Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
05/30/2000 07:14 PM
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        Subject:        Re: Is ERP dead?

There is an article in the current issue of eCompany (one of the new, full
of ads & hype) magazine about the death of ERP. It is an interesting read,
article call Binge and Purge (who killed ERP). Apparently some of the "big
guys" in ERP have been jumping ship for a while.  The other interesting
article is about your customers calling you up and forcing you to e-bid 
with
the rest of the world to keep their business (Dear Supplier).
Jim Franz


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