When the ERP has a 9 figures sales order
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Our internal ERP system is configured to send an email when we have orders that cross a certain threshold. For obvious reasons, I like knowing when a big deal has closed. For the most part, for large orders, there is a back and forth process with the customer, so we know to expect the order. In most cases, the process involves talking to legal, purchasing agents and varying degrees of bureaucracy.

Sometimes we have a customer that come out of the blue, place a large order and never even talk to a person throughout the whole thing. I love those cases, as you can imagine, because it means that there was no friction anywhere that we needed to deal with.

Today, I got notified about an order with a large enough sum that I had to stop and count the number of zeroes. I was quite happy with the number, but was somewhat concerned that I would have to pay enough taxes to close down the national debt. I checked a bit further with the accounting department what was going on there.

Sadly, we won’t be able to purchase a large island from pocket change. This was a manual order and instead of putting the amount of the order, they put in the invoice id.

Cue sad trombone sound.

If you need me, I’m currently busy trying to cancel my tickets to the moon.

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