V-smart

Speed up the ordering process

The acquisitions module enables control of the ordering process for different types of orders: purchases, gifts, consignments, approvals, external orders, retrospective orders, urgent orders, or a combination of these.

• Order management: Supports pre-defined order patterns for material types, locations, and budgets.
• Budget control: Manage multiple budgetary accounting models with a simple year end processing.
• Invoices management: Manage end-to-end invoicing from pro-forma invoices to credit notes creation.

Electronic data interchange (EDI) is available for electronic exchange of data with vendors through the support of the EDIFACT standard and is supported for orders, quotes, invoices and order responses.

Easy registration of Serials

The serials module facilitates complete control of subscriptions, electronic resources, and circulation. It is linked to the Acquisitions module to manage all financial aspects and benefit from extensive reporting tools.

• Predicts receipt of forthcoming issues, based on daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and any other predictable pattern.
• The library only needs to define the data once and the system will henceforth display all predicted items on a single screen.
• Immediate display of received items in Web Opac.
• Sophisticated claims mechanism to manage non-received items.
• Supports and differentiates free, paid, and membership subscriptions.
• Supports receipt of non-predicted items such as extra or special issues, yearbooks, supplements, and festschrifts.