Firm Orders

More than one budget head can be used to acquire an item. All orders are accumulated into a batch,
e.g., to be printed on the 1st and 15th of a month. A daemon process takes care of the printing or other
method of transmission of the order on the prescribed dates (a setup parameter) in the Acquisitions module.

An important addition to NewGenLib in later versions will be the use of Web Services interfaces to vendors
such as Amazon.com.

Many routine tasks in NewGenLib will be Deamon processes. For instance, batched orders will be produced
on specified days when the server is relatively free, e.g., when it is late in the night.

Background work and data required in acquisitions, e.g., defining of budgets and vendors, specifying batch
process dates, defining names and other details of approving authorities is done as part of the Setup
processes of NewGenLib. (see the System configuration section for more information).