"If you don't smell each other's body odor, you don't get purchase order," he quips in clipped English.
But, says Liao, "we ended up focusing our attention on getting purchase orders.
We'd get these purchase orders, and it was my job to pull out the yellow ones, put 'em in a stack, and fill out the carbon paper.
When the economy is in a recession, however -- as it is now -- the government needs to spend in order to get purchasing power into the hands of the people.
"The most tricky part of the North American market is you have to have a plant there in order to get a purchase order," says Markus Gebhardt.
For the following three UC Berkeley plans, there is no need to get a purchase order (PO) to pay for a site hosted on Pantheon!
And Xerox, to its great credit, had a PARC — a place where, a continent away from the top managers, an engineer could sit and dream, and get every purchase order approved, and fire a laser across the Foothill Expressway if he was so inclined.
To get a purchase order through a department in a tough environment, it's good if you can show a hard ROI, which we can.
"I've got your purchase order and I'll be booking the flights today".
My dad used to say, "We're leaving money on the table if we don't follow up with every buyer who comes into our showroom, whether we got a purchase order or not". In those days he owned a jewelry manufacturing company on 36th Street in New York City.
