Michael J Morrison

US Patent:

55702910, Oct 29, 1996

Filed:

Aug 31, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/298274

Inventors:

James Dudle - Homewood IL
Michael Leatherman - Tinley Park IL
Michael Morrison - Highland Park IL
Waldo Schnell - Prospect Heights IL

Assignee:

Wallace Computer Services, Inc. - Hillside IL

International Classification:

G06F 1900

US Classification:

36446801

Abstract:

A system and method for generating estimates and orders for the manufacture of custom items such as business forms is provided which stores estimate data at a central location, e. g. , a corporate office, for access by sales representatives at remote sales sites. A sales representative creates an item specification for a form to be manufactured and electronically transmits it to the corporate office for estimate data. Data relating to the cost and list price to produce the form based on the item specification is transmitted to the sales representative. The sales representative determines a sell price from the pricing data, and generates a production order using the item specification and the estimate data, among other data. The production order is transmitted to a manufacturing plant for job execution. The system manages a centralized repository of item specification, estimate and customer contract data, among other types of data, for analysis and reporting which can be accessed by computers at different manufacturing plants and sales sites.