Re: Suggestions wanted on reducing time to assemble month-end invoices

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roger

It's worth asking - I am not sure if there isn't a pre=printed form in 
the mix, either. More to know!

Vern

On 11/2/2017 6:08 PM, Roger Harman wrote:
> I'm somewhat hesitant to suggest this but have you considered a different color paper for the  statement?  Of course, you still have to print everything in the required order but it does eliminate the separator page.
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> Roger Harman
> COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
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> From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2017 3:39 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Suggestions wanted on reducing time to assemble month-end invoices
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> Thanks, Justin - that helps!
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> On 11/2/2017 5:10 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> > The most recent case, we had a *SCS spooled file, a *USERASCII spooled file and a PDF for each order.  We just sent them to the OUTQ with the three for a given order back-to-back.  Originally, the *SCS, *USERASCII and PDF's all came from separate programs,  so we had to change the process to create all the documents for a single order together.
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> > We do not use separator pages.  The documents themselves are distinct enough to server as separators.
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> > In the OUTQ, the spooled files look like this:
> > *SCS-Order#123
> > *USERASCII-Order#123
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> > *SCS-Order#456
> > *USERASCII-Order#456
> > *PDF-Order#456
> > *SCS-Order#789
> > *USERASCII-Order#789
> > *PDF-Order#789
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2017 4:50 PM
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Suggestions wanted on reducing time to assemble month-end invoices
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> > Hi Justin
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> > A little more detail, maybe - do you mean each statement and associated invoices are one document?
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> > And did you include am easily-recognizable separator?
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> > The invoice run precedes the statement run - and there are other processes in between - I don't know yet if those have any bearing on the statement run.
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> > Thanks
> > Vern