The use of cell phones and pagers has increased dramatically in the past few 
years.  As a result the Accounts Payable department has seen a rapid increase 
in the number of invoices and vendors.  With the higher volume, we have 
reviewed our processes in order to continue our rapid payment cycle.

Although we encourage vendors to address their invoices to individual 
employees, they often mail invoices directly to Accounts Payable.  At times 
they fail to list the individual who uses the pager or cell phone.  In these 
cases we return the invoice to the vendor.  If the employee is designated, we 
try to track him/her down and forward the invoice.  The high level of 
employee movement among jobs and locations at Enron has made this 
increasingly challenging.  Either way, we end up doing something less 
productive than paying invoices.

To maintain satisfactory response to our vendors and to reduce time necessary 
for research, we request that employees who have pagers, cell phones, and 
other individually billed items such as licenses, subscriptions, etc., pay 
for them by personal check or charge card (if applicable*payment instructions 
are usually indicated on the invoice) and request reimbursement through 
employee expense reports. 

By submitting these charges on your expense report, you can help us reduce 
the amount of time spent researching and forwarding invoices, the number of 
checks generated by Treasury, the number of vendors in our database, and the 
turnaround time for payment of invoices.