Apparatus for employing a procurement system to automatically procure printing orders
OwnerCory Klatt, Brent Kruminventors
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Abstract
Information stored in a corporate database is monitored and used to determine when certain business-related events have occurred. Event information is transmitted over the Internet to a print production facility, where it is used to fire one or more event rules, which in turn automatically generate print requisitions or print production orders. In one variation, print requisitions are routed through an existing and commercially available procurement system before a print production order is generated. The system can monitor and handle events from multiple corporations, each having its own business-related event rules, and each potentially having its own procurement approval system.
Claims13
A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing steps comprising:
- receiving an event message from a procurement system of a client;
- in response to the event message, executing an event rule to obtain previously designated data from an enterprise resource planning system of the client;
- preparing a print order for printing on a medium, such that the print order includes at least the previously designated data;
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- arranging for printing of the print order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.