On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:34 -0300, "Gerhard Fiedler" wrote:
> William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
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> > "you can't put engineering stock into the Production part chain."
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> I think this has at least also something to do with the way USA-style=20
> sales tax works (as opposed to Europe-style VAT). When you buy a part in=
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> the USA, you buy it as engineering part or as a production part, and I=20
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> two. (This distinction doesn't exist with Europe-style VAT.)

No, companies do whatever they want with parts. Bill is talking about
Cisco, they are huge, and stuffy, and have procedures for everything. If
it was a small company they'd do whatever they pleased, but Cisco is a
huge bureaucracy like most big companies. Things like that are just not
done, there isn't a procedure for it in their ISO9000 paperwork, so it
doesn't happen.

If I wanted to use engineering parts in a production piece, I could do
it and either ignore the accounting or make a note of it. It's
insignificant and inconsequential. If it saves me a few thousand
dollars, I'd do it. Cisco wouldn't stop to pick up that amount of money.

Cheers,

Bob


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