6.1 - Automatic drawing generation for Purchase Orders

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Has anyone successfully set up an automatic drawing printing system for
when a purchase order is raised?

The scenario is this, if we send a purchase order to a supplier, for one
or more components, we should send our current manufacturing drawing/s
for those components, so the supplier knows the current revision they
should be making. It is very time consuming for our purchasing staff to
print out these drawings, and then associate them with the purchase
order, and then fax them off. It is nearly impossible for them to do if
they wish to email the purchase order.

I believe there must be a way of having vantage or crystal check there
is a drawing at a specified location, and if there is, associate a PDF
or other format page of the drawing which can be attached to the
purchase order report, before or when it is printed. The printer would
then be ready to print the purchase order , followed by pages for each
drawing.



Has anyone set up such a system, or can anyone envisage how we should go
about this?



Any help or discussion would be gladly welcomed.



Cheers



Stuart Noble
Thompson Meat Machinery




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