I'll try again to chime into this thread...I think my last message was blocked.
I'm going to jump in here and suggest that someone needs to get
familiar with ASN (advanced shipment notificiation) which allows the
libraries to electronically receive their materials rather than having
to check in
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:34:43 -0400, Lori Bowen Ayre
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I'll try again to chime into this thread...I think my last message was
blocked.
I'm going to jump in here and suggest that someone needs to get
familiar with ASN (advanced shipment notificiation) which allows the
On Sunday 27 July 2008 11:19 Mike Rylander wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Bill Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thursday 24 July 2008 8:54 David J. Fiander wrote:
[snip]
The primary field on the receiving screen is an ISBN input field. The
staff scan the ISBN barcode on
On Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:55 PM, David J. Fiander wrote:
The primary field on the receiving screen is an ISBN input field. The staff
scan the ISBN barcode on each item, which pulls up the corresponding JUB.
The system would need some way of dealing with duplicate (reused) ISBNs or
items with
Bryan,
You're absolutely right, and I'd already thought of dealing with items
without ISBNs, at least. But for the initial development, I think we need to
focus on the simplest and most common case of items with unique ISBNs.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Bryan Baldus
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David,
This sounds like a lot of thought has been put into the process. One question
about the invoice #. Many times we only receive a packing list with the
books/media that are being received. Would we then have to wait for an
invoice? If so, that could really slow things down.
As
Carri,
The packing slip doesn't have an invoice # on it? If that's the case,
perhaps MIke's idea about using the PO # is better. I'm a bit concerned
about shipments containing odd mixtures of items from various POs; it seems
more likely that a shipment will match an invoice than that it will
David Fiander [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/28/2008 9:40 AM
Carri,
The packing slip doesn't have an invoice # on it?
--Sometimes, but not always. I do like the idea of tying the receipt to an
invoice. Especially since many of our invoices are electronically downloaded.
Will there be some way of
On Thursday 24 July 2008 8:54 David J. Fiander wrote:
Receiving needs to be efficient, since it's most definitely a
materials handling process above everything else.
Imagine that the staff have opened a box and dug out the packing
slip / invoice.
Once they've checked that against the
I'm going to jump in here and suggest that someone needs to get
familiar with ASN (advanced shipment notificiation) which allows the
libraries to electronically receive their materials rather than having
to check in each item one at a time. Essentially, once the shipment
contents is verified (one
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