Acquisitions Automation: import without data going bump in the night

Abstract

The technical aspects for automated import of orders, invoices, and bibliographic records may not sound flashy, yet our methodology allows us to sleep at night. Significantly reducing mundane tasks frees staff for more important work. We enter vendor orders on-line, and within 24 hours data is automatically imported. Staff come into work to find that during the night their data was brought into Aleph. Various staff receive reports, including monitoring of the ongoing flow of data.