[750] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Accounting Requirements & Tasks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Tue Dec 5 13:12:25 2000
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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 13:13:20 -0500
To: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.Edu>,
Enterprise Printing Delivery Project Team <printdel@MIT.EDU>
From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
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At 11:36 AM 12/5/00 -0500, David F Lambert wrote:
>Team,
>
>I tried to gather the accounting requirements in one place and expand
>on previous discussions and email. You'll also find an expanded list
>of accounting tasks to be completed from yesterday's meeting.
>
>Please review this list carefully for accuracy and completeness. I'd
>like these lists to be our complete detailed breakdown of accounting
>work. So, please look this over carefully and respond to the list
>with corrections & additions.
> -Dave
>
>Accounting Related Requirements
> -No cost break for multiple copies
> -Enduser can change cost object as needed
> -Automated monthly upload to SAP; should contain a single entry
> for each cost object used during the accounting period with
> the total monthly charge
> -Users are authorized to use cost objects via the Roles DB;
> cost object can be changed via Web interface
> -Submitted jobs must be authenticated via KLPR or browser SSL
I know this is a requirement, but we need to keep in mind that the windows
KLPR has not yet been released.
> -Charge by physical sheets of paper not logical pages
Not possible at this time. We are only getting count of logical pages.
> -Ability to charge two rates for customer vs IS provided stock
Not possible at this time the accounting records do not reflect media/stock
used.
> -Provide means to not charge ASOP users
> -Monthly management report to include:
> 1) total pages/lines printed for all printers
> 2) total pages/lines printed for each printer
> -Detail accounting reports should be available on demand by cost
> object or username; detailed report would contain:
Where are these reports available from? SAP? or the web interface to IPM?
> 1) username
> 2) cost object
> 3) submitting IP address and/or domain name would be better
> 4) destination printer
> 5) pages printed
> 6) date & time print job finished
> 7) simplex duplex
Not in the accounting records at this time
> 8) logical destination (or whatever is needed to indicate what
> paper stock was used)
Not in the accounting records at this time
> 9) number of copies
Not in the accounting records at this time
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Accounting Tasks to be Completed:
> 1) test IPDS & PS printing behavior (done)
> 2) determine what the current MF accounting does for restarted/
> interrupted jobs
Rocklyn is sending mail, but at this time the flag for interruptions is
ignored in the accounting
> 3) define what we would like IPM to do for restarted/interrupted jobs
> 4) build rate table
> 5) build web interface for changing cost object
> 6) identify a list of accounting requirement changes we want IBM
> to implement in the future
Sent my bulleted list to MEB this morning to be cleaned up and put on the web.
> 7) submit the above requirements list to Boulder
> 8) build automated process to upload accounting data to SAP monthly
> 9) build automated monthly management report generation process
>10) build tool to produce on demand detail usage reports
>11) update our project web pages with accounting requirements
>12) test everything
Lynne E. Durland
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