RE: Overrides on Purchase Orders

Dale,

I suppose you figured I'd check in here.  Of course, JacanaForms is a great
way to create produce the PO in an electronic format, and we can interface
to a number of fax and email applications.

The real question is do you want to configure your Vendors so each could be
identified as fax, email, print or do your buyers want to choose every time
a PO is printed?

I have two suggestions, first, for integrated fax/email/etc, CISTech has
recently built an interface to JacanaForms that can retrieve the fax number
or email address or any additional data and pass it into JacanaForms.  This
is a great way to setup who gets fax/email/print and automate the entire
process.  You can also print local copies for receiving or accounting at the
same time.

The second suggestion is to produce a PDF document that is placed in a
buyer's network folder, or routed directly to his PC (to a popup viewer),
and then the buyer can fax/email/print from their desktop.  A simple and
cheap, if inelegant, solution.

Please contact me off list if you wish to discuss further.

Momentum is the developer of Info WorkPlace (IWP), JacanaForms and inTuator.

Regards,
-Greg

Gregory Novak
Manager North American Technical Services
Momentum Utilities Pty Ltd
(630) 985-1736
gnovak@xxxxxxxxxx
www.jacana.com
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:05 AM
To: mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Overrides on Purchase Orders






Hi group!

Is anyone out there faxing their POs directly from the system?  We use
Cornerstone Communication's Unifier as our fax server (have been since the
early 90's), and want to (finally!) begin faxing POs directly rather than
printing them and manually faxing them.  (Our old Purchasing Manager that
resisted all this "new stuff" has retired, now we can join the 21st
century.)

However, I need to allow our buyers to select print, fax, or e-mail
(Unifier supports all 3) from the Browser Host Print or green screen.
There is only one option available to me that I can see, print.  That means
I have to use the CAS Report Overrides to control printing.  That's
insufficient - I don't want an "all or nothing" approach.

How have you good folk handled this?  Just hoping to get a couple options
before I start reinventing the wheel.  I figure Eric (among others) has
been down this road before.....

Dale Gindlesperger
IT Manager/Special Projects Leader
Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
258 Beacon Street
Somerset, PA  15501