12:08:50 From Bill Verner to Everyone: How many orders could display at a time? Is there a maximum that could be selected at once to create the invoice? 12:13:43 From Bill Verner to Everyone: great, thanks 12:16:00 From Bill Verner to Everyone: That could present a problem if not every POL is represented on the invoice. 12:16:01 From Peter Sbrzesny to Everyone: Will it be possible to add another order to the invoice in case you have forgotten one in the first place? 12:16:29 From Scott Perry to Everyone: For those of us with one pol per po this would be very helpful. 12:17:33 From Bill Verner to Everyone: +1 Scott 12:21:48 From Lisa Smith - Mich State to Everyone: I can see it working for both single and multi-line invoices, as long as we are paying the invoice for each line. 12:22:21 From Bill Verner to Everyone: I can see doing both, depending on the invoice. 12:24:15 From Scott Perry to Everyone: This is a big improvement and saves many clicks for 1 po/1 pol institutions. 12:24:33 From Bill Verner to Everyone: This seems seriously advantageous to me. 12:24:34 From Dung-Lan Chen to Everyone: Yes, +1 Scott 12:24:35 From Lisa Smith - Mich State to Everyone: Our invoice payer checks the POL before paying the invoice, so it would be helpful for to create from the PO. 12:25:30 From Virginia Martin to Everyone: for many of us with many vendors, electronic invoicing is not an option, Ann-Marie 12:25:59 From Peter Sbrzesny to Everyone: +1 to Virginia 12:26:16 From Bill Verner to Everyone: But, once again, having a system that makes it easy to work with vendors that can invoice electronically and difficult to work with those that don't is discriminatory on any number of levels. 12:27:04 From Ann-Marie Breaux to Everyone: I totally get that for your long tail of small vendors, Virginia. Hopefully for your top 10-ish vendors, who maybe fulfill 70-80%-ish of your POLs/Invoice lines, you would be able to get electronic invoices. 12:28:03 From Virginia Martin to Everyone: Ann-Marie - yes, one hopes. however, when you have a very large volume of orders, even 20-30% of invoices not coming in electronically is a very large number requiring a lot of staff time. 12:29:18 From Bill Verner to Everyone: Also, the fact that these may not represent the largest percentage of actual billing does not mean that they don't represent an equal volume of actual invoicing work\ 12:30:31 From Ann-Marie Breaux to Everyone: For the record - I'm absolutely not saying that FOLIO should discriminate if you have to key in manual invoices. It's the same situation with cataloging records. Hopefully a high percentage can be handled in a non-manual way, but there is definitely a long tail of work that will have to be done manually, and a library needs as efficient way as possible for staff to do that work. 12:30:43 From Bill Verner to Everyone: And it is these types of vendors that in many ways are most critical to an ARL seeking to represent the broadest spectrum of voices and cultures in its collection. FOLIO runs the risk of making it too burdensome to deal with this at scale. 12:32:02 From Bill Verner to Everyone: Which is why even the smallest gain in efficiency is critical. 12:32:10 From Ann-Marie Breaux to Everyone: I totally agree that the goal is not "either/or" when it comes to automated/manual, but rather "both and" 12:35:58 From Ann-Marie Breaux to Everyone: For comparison, in one warehouse where I worked, the 10-15% that had to be manually unboxed, processed, and invoiced required the same level of work/staffing as the 85-90% that was automated. Not because the computer system was inefficient, but the overall small shipment/invoice handling is inherently inefficient. Every supplier that could be flipped from manual to automated workflow represented a significant savings. 12:42:09 From Lisa Smith - Mich State to Everyone: MSU uses mainly single-line POs, but we do use multi-line POs for approvals. 12:42:36 From Ann Crowley to Everyone: Cornell uses multi line PO's also, but does have some single line PO's 12:54:45 From Virginia Martin to Everyone: +1 Dung-Lan 12:55:15 From Lisa Smith - Mich State to Everyone: I would like this; my preference would be to have the option in the action button. 12:56:36 From Peter Sbrzesny to Everyone: I would prefer to keep it separate because mostly we will pay against the current fiscal year. Payment against the old year will be an exception. 12:59:45 From Lisa Smith - Mich State to Everyone: Sometimes our University Purchasing Dept pays a service invoice from our account, but we didn't see/get the June 30th invoice until July 1st. 13:00:00 From Scott Perry to Everyone: For us this would be used mostly for reconciling transactions (difference between the actual exchange rate used by the bank and the estimated amount entered in FOLIO originally as one example). 13:00:46 From Dung-Lan Chen to Everyone: +1 to Lisa and Scott 13:02:25 From Virginia Martin to Everyone: encumbering against future fiscal years - that would be nice! 13:02:25 From Lisa Smith - Mich State to Everyone: Mich State holds invoices for future FYs; I can't imagine paying for future FYs!