A method of submitting orders for products includes a customer preparing
an order for submission to a supplier server. When the order is submitted
to the supplier server, the supplier server determines whether the
customer submitting the order is authorized to submit the order to the
supplier. If not, the supplier server forwards the order to another
customer who is authorized to submit the order. After forwarding the
order, the order may be consolidated with other orders for resubmission
to the supplier server.