I have to disagree. SWIP is not meaningless.
In my company some functions related to sending a SWIP are automated, but my company has people on staff who know that it is happening and what it means.
And I talk with plenty of other companies that fall into the same boat.
In short I find this one comment below to be argumentive and full of conjecture.
No more argumentative and full of conjecture than your posting. I said that there were SOME companies where SWIP is just a mysterious automated process and nobody on staff fully understands the meaning of it, beyond the fact that it needs to be done to help get approval for that next allocation request. The fact that SOME companies do have a process for managing SWIP as they understand it, does not mean that there are no delinquents. I also find it curious that you claim to have people on staff at your company who know what SWIP means. Perhaps you could ask them to share that information with us since I have never seen this documented anywhere. Do they really know what you claim they know? --Michael Dillon