Shortfacts - November 2016

Large attachments

Many purchasers of technical goods are familiar with the problem: Sending an order by email is ideal for sending orders as quickly and easily as possible while at the same time checking that they have been received by the supplier. However, very large files such as technical drawings, CAD data exchange files (DXF, STEP) and other documents often have to be attached to an order. This quickly exceeds the permissible size of an e-mail to the supplier. The manual splitting of a purchase order into several individual emails is time-consuming and error-prone. With the "Purchase+" software integration, this is now much easier and faster: after an order is triggered via SAP, the program not only adds the necessary files to an order, but also automatically splits the order into several related emails. In the subject line, the sequential number of the e-mail and the total number of documents are also automatically inserted so that the supplier can see at a glance how the e-mails are related.