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Millennium Acquisitions streamlines workflow with point-and-click functionality,
effortless navigation, and seamless integration, making your job both
easier and more efficient. It features the most extensive and widely used
suite of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) products in the industry and
performs all the functions associated with acquiring all types of materials
(books, serials, supplies, etc.) via purchase, gift, and exchange. Millennium
Acquisitions also offers comprehensive statistics and reports, including
up-to-the-minute fund status.
Handles all types of materials including:
- Monographs
- Serials
- All formats including print and electronic
- Standing orders
- Subscriptions
- Blanket Orders
- Approvals
- Depository items
- Memberships
- Gifts and exchanges
- Prepaid items
Full financial accounting, including:
- Comprehensive fund management
- Integrated invoicing
- Detailed audit trials
- Financial statistics
- Complete payment history, including serials
- Interface to outside accounting system
- Currency conversion
- Multi-copy fund ordering; single copy multi-fund ordering
Full integration, including:
- Single record storage
- On-order and In Processing statuses displayed in WebPAC Pro
- Circulation-holds integration
- Creation of circulation records at point of receipt
- Automatic duplicate checking
Electronic Data Interchange
- Z39.50 pre-order searching and record input using external interface
- Electronic orders, electronic invoices, approval plans, firm orders
- Accounting system interface
- Order archiving to tape
Customizable log-in options, including:
- Templates
- Authorization
- Accounting system interface
- Graphics
 External
Accounting System
Vendor
Interfaces
Inventory Express
Quick Click Ordering
BIP
Interface
Extended
Approval Plan Interface
Types
of Materials
Electronic
Data Interchange
Electronic
Invoices
Financial
Accounting
netLibrary
Interface to External Accounting System
The Interface to External Accounting System, an API, is designed to
interface with any system. The system sends invoice information, entered
during the payment process, to facilitate bookkeeping between financial
systems and to reduce the need for re-keying. The data sent are suitable
for entry into the check-writing or accounting system of the library's
parent body.
Vendor Interfaces
Millennium Acquisitions has a reliable and feature-rich interface to
serials and book vendors. Innovative has worked with a large number of
vendors to ensure that the process of purchasing books and serials, processing
electronic invoices, and obtaining MARC records on the Web is efficient
and streamlined. These vendors include Baker & Taylor, Ingram, BWI,
Faxon, netLibraryTM, Swets Blackwell, Yankee Book Peddlar, Harrassowitz,
Bookhouse, Blackwell's Book Services, Hein, and EBSCO.
Inventory Express
Inventory Express uses Web Services, an XML-based technology that lets applications interoperate in real-time on the Web, to create a rapid link between Millennium and multiple vendors without time-consuming batch-loading processes. With a single click, library staff can search multiple vendors for a specific title, check the library catalog for duplicates, download pricing and availability information, make a purchase, and obtain the information necessary to create a database record. Inventory Express currently supports connections to Amazon.com, Baker & Taylor, and BWI with more to follow. This enhancement has been successfully customer-tested and will be included in the Millennium 2005 release.
Quick Click Ordering
Quick Click Ordering streamlines record loading by sending records to Millennium in one step from Baker and Taylor’s Title Source II™ or BWI. An entire batch can be moved into the acquisitions with a simple click of the mouse.
BIP Interface
The Books-In-Print Interface supports the receiving of data into Millennium
from a PC that has the BIP or Global BIP CD-ROM. Millennium receives a
file of "MARC-tagged" data from the PC and loads bibliographic
and order records into the Millennium database.
Extended Approval Plan Interface
The Extended Approval Plan Interface offers a practical, standard, and
open solution for e-commerce. Via electronic transfer, book and invoice
information may be received in enhanced MARC or non-MARC records. New
orders may be created during approvals processing according to the library's
needs. Acquisitions staff processing approvals can easily accept or reject
approval titles based on the recommendation of the approvals selector.
Because Millennium is so flexible, invoice processing is seamlessly integrated
into the approvals process.
Types of Materials
Millennium Acquisitions easily manages monographs and serials, both print
and electronic. In addition to new orders for books (and even library
supplies), Millennium can manage standing orders, subscriptions, blanket
orders, approvals, depository items, memberships, replacements, prepaid
items, desiderata, etc.
Electronic Data Interchange
Innovative has long been at the forefront of interfacing with book and
serials vendors and has pioneered solutions long before standards have
been adapted. This type of leadership in exploring and creating solutions
for libraries will continue as a core part of Innovative's business practice.
Innovative offers book and serials vendors an easier way to conduct business
with Innovative libraries through the Vendor Documentation Web site. Unique
to the library automation industry, the Web site gives vendors information
for and links to the easiest, most efficient ways to communicate with
Innovative libraries and handle transactions. The Millennium system currently
fully supports X.12, proprietary formats, and API. Available with
Release 2001, Millennium will also fully support EDI using EDIFACT. EDI
is integrated into the Acquisitions system as part of the ordering process
by allowing electronic orders to be sent to participating vendors, and
as part of the receiving process, both in receiving bibliographic/order
data for approval shipments and receiving invoice data for both serial
and firm orders.
Electronic Invoices
Electronic invoices are processed through Millennium's Extended Approval
Plan and Serials Invoice interfaces. Electronic data transfer may be done
either via FTP or local network disk. Electronic invoicing allows the
library to accept, reject, and only pay for what the library retains.
The function also allows the library to update vendor, title, and subscription
number for serials whose vendor changes ID annually. The Extended Approval
Plan Interface supports the capability to receive the vendor's MARC records
with invoice data. Vendors who provide this data include Academic Book
Center, Baker and Taylor, Blackwell, The Book House, Coutts, Harrasowitz,
Majors, Midwest, and Yankee Book Peddler. The Serials Invoice Interface
provides the capability for the library to receive invoices from serials
vendors. Serials vendors with this capability include Swets, Blackwell,
EBSCO, Faxon, Harrasowitz, W.S. Hein & Co., Majors, McGregor, Readmore,
Rothman, and others.
Financial Accounting
Millennium's Acquisitions module offers full financial accounting capabilities
including:
- Comprehensive fund management
- Integrated invoicing
- Detailed audit trails
- Financial statistics
- Complete payment history, including serials
- Interface to outside accounting systems
- Currency conversion
- Multi-copy fund ordering; single copy multi-fund ordering
netLibrary™
Innovative's integration of netLibrary eBooks is now available at no
cost to its libraries. Innovative is the only ILS vendor that currently
provides enhanced access to netLibrary's collection. Full MARC records
can be downloaded into the library's catalog with complete access to the
eBook. The netLibrary record loading process is fully integrated into
Innovative's Acquisitions EDI system. In addition, Innovative has developed
many other new features that integrate netLibrary's collection into the
library's online catalog, including search limits, previews, and check-out. |
