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ReprintControl

ReprintControl

ReprintControl

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Overview: The document describes the features and functionalities of the mailFactory® ReprintControl, a software solution by Kern AG designed to manage and optimize mail production processes across multiple sites and vendor-independent environments.
Features:
  • Mailpiece Search: Allows users to find and display distributed mail pieces and their historical processing information.
  • Ensure Job Completeness: Reconciles production results from every inserter environment to ensure job completeness.
  • Reprint Handling: Facilitates reprints by generating index lists for incomplete mail pieces, with a GUI for visualizing production runs and reprints.
  • Different Environments: Offers flexible control by allocating jobs to required inserter environments and moving jobs or reprints between them.
  • Business Rules: Automates the production workflow through predefined business rules.
  • Open Interface: Provides an open XML interface for delivering production jobs, with customizable interfaces based on customer demand.
Services:
  • Consulting for optimal integration of mailFactory® ReprintControl in mailroom environments.
  • Project management services for integration.
  • Customizable software interfaces and solutions.
  • On-site training for employees.
Workflow: The workflow involves several steps:
  • Initial job control file reception.
  • Reprint index generation.
  • Production environment allocation.
  • Job production run and reconciliation.
  • Reprint production or manual handling.
Data is stored at the mail piece level, and business rules assign jobs to appropriate inserter environments. The system reconciles processing results and generates reprint files as needed, repeating the process until all mail pieces are correctly processed.
Function Description: The ReprintControl service imports job data in a predefined format, preferably XML, and stores it in a database. Business rules guide the assignment of jobs to inserter environments. After production runs, updated control files are reconciled, and new reprint files are generated and sent to inserter environments. The system supports mixed reprints to optimize resource use.
Contact Information: Kern AG, 3510 Konolfingen, Switzerland. Phone: +41 31 790 35 35. Email: [email protected]. Website: www.kernworld.com
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ReprintControl kern SoftwareKern Software Solution mailFactory ® ReprintControl guarantees the complete dispatch of your production jobs, vendor independent and across multiple production sites. mailFactory ® ReprintControl as a service within mailFactory ® Manager Sphera provides the complete distribution of the production at multiple sites, independent of vendors. As an optional feature, Mailpiece Search is used to find and display already distributed mail pieces and shows their historical processing information. Our Services ■ We help to analyze the mail production process and offer consulting to optimally integrate the mailFactory® ReprintControl in your mailroom environment ■ Project management services over the entire integration ■ Customizable software interfaces, components and solutions The entire production workflow can be conducted manually or automatically with the corresponding business rules. The management system receives the initial production jobs and saves them on mail piece level. After a production run the application generates the reprint data and therewith controls the data flow until the job is completely processed (closed loop). The production jobs can be decentralized and sent to vendor independent inserter environments. The service offers various interfaces to different preparation and inserter systems. Features Ensure Job Completeness ■ Reconciliation of production results about mail pieces from every inserter environment involved, to guarantee the completeness of the production job. Reprint Handling ■ Invoke reprints by generating index lists for reproduction of incomplete mail pieces. The GUI visualizes details of all covered production runs and reprints. ■ On-site training for your employees Different Environments ■ Flexible control of the production by allocating the jobs to the required inserter environment and moving jobs or reprints between the inserter environments. Bu siness Rul es ■ Business rules help you to manage and automate the production workflow. Open Interface ■ Open XML interface to deliver the production jobs. Other interfaces can be realized based on customers demand. Your technology partner I

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Function Description ReprintControl  With this step the processing results in the database are reconciled and the system expects new paper for the reprint run only. In the meantime the new reprint file is generated and sent to the defined inserter environment, according to the business rules. These steps are repeated until all the mail pieces are processed correctly. The processed production information is archived for future tracking by a quality responsible member. Job data is sent in a predefined format by a preparation system and then imported by the mailFactory ® Reprint Control service....

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