need to manage inventory & fax to multiple dealers

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Bruce

Hello, I have a client who deals in loose stones and needs to manage an
inventory of 500 to 600 diamonds and fax the list to 400 to 500 dealers
across the country on a regular basis. Any suggestions ot the best method we
can use would be greatly appreciated. It seems like a server setup would be
overkill here. Personally I'm leaning towards OUtlook for ius faxing wiht the
built in fax of XP and an ecell sheet for his inventory? But nto sure XP's
built in fax can manage this kind of setup.

thanks for your help,
Bruce
 
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Shaunmal

Faxing is a very slow a tedious system to deal with compared to moder
day computing systems. I think if you take a look at the physica
conditions you need to deal with I am sure you think you are going t
need a server and more

1100 Faxes a day = 1 Fax every 1 minute 15 second

Let's get more realistic...you will receive most of your faxes withi
a 10 hour period which means you will receive a fax a minute with
peak during 11am-2pm period which could bring a fax once every 3
seconds. Then you will need to intripolate the data and create a fa
to send out to 500 different fax machines. Assuming you can send
fax a minute, it will take you over 8 hours to send all faxe

So what you are going to need is to get your self a fax board wher
you can send and receive multiple faxes at one time. I found thi
one on E-bay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3309&item=5749295093&rd=
You will also need about 4 phone lines and the software to go wit
it. Though, it might com with some. Probably the most functiona
software would be the OCR software which the server can do when i
receives the fax. Once the fax is OCR'ed You can easily intripolat
th data into a big document or database. This is a significan
business system and you should spend some good time researching th
design
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Faxes are practically obsolete - who are you directing this email to?

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Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Shaunmal asked:

| Faxing is a very slow a tedious system to deal with compared to modern
| day computing systems. I think if you take a look at the physical
| conditions you need to deal with I am sure you think you are going to
| need a server and more.
|
| 1100 Faxes a day = 1 Fax every 1 minute 15 seconds
|
| Let's get more realistic...you will receive most of your faxes within
| a 10 hour period which means you will receive a fax a minute with a
| peak during 11am-2pm period which could bring a fax once every 30
| seconds. Then you will need to intripolate the data and create a fax
| to send out to 500 different fax machines. Assuming you can send 1
| fax a minute, it will take you over 8 hours to send all faxes
|
| So what you are going to need is to get your self a fax board where
| you can send and receive multiple faxes at one time. I found this
| one on E-bay:
|
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3309&item=5749295093&rd=1
| You will also need about 4 phone lines and the software to go with
| it. Though, it might com with some. Probably the most functional
| software would be the OCR software which the server can do when it
| receives the fax. Once the fax is OCR'ed You can easily intripolate
| th data into a big document or database. This is a significant
| business system and you should spend some good time researching the
| design.
 
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