Job Ticketing in the Electronic Age

Along with e-commerce has come the emergence of procurement-related dotcom companies, reports Andersen, noting that this is the most far-reaching trend to affect the electronic job ticketing market.

E-commerce Interfacing
"Links are being established between the dotcom company's products and the management systems, whereby a buyer can place an order on the Internet and that order will be submitted directly into a management system database. Once an electronic order reaches the management system database in order entry, then the electronic job ticket is populated with the job information and is viewable throughout the shop," explains Andersen. She notes that Micro Ink uses its own Web browser tools for this application, but is currently working with dotcom companies on interfaces to its database engine.