It is also imperative that, if the system does not provide for immediate printing at the time of shipment, that some facility for batch printing exists. This would automatically print MSDSs for all products that have shipped out that day. The system also needs to provide a way to publish the MSDSs documents on the Internet. EDI would be a secondary issue. Documents may be output in any user-definable format.
Output is suitable for mailing and for a fax on-demand type of service.
We would suggest users consider Adobe Acrobat for web publishing since the PDF format will not allow someone to modify the document. Currently the system is outputting files in SGML which is compliant with EDI, and we have other EDI modules under development. But surprisingly, we have had no requests for other standard formats. Queries There needs to be some query capability. The system has the capability to create SQL Queries.