Road Map for Delivering XMLP Documents from Oracle EBS: A Guide to the Automated Delivery of Oracle E-Business Suite Documents via Email and Fax: White Paper

This paper is intended to educate users, developers, managers, and executives of companies using Oracle E-Business Suite to automate and maintain the distribution of business documents. Business documents (purchase orders, invoices, statements, packing slips, etc.) tend to be well-defined, printed and distributed to intended recipients. Some companies cling to the use of printing these documents on preprinted, multi-part forms. More progressive companies have purchased "forms packages," replacing the preprinted form with an electronic form which distributes to several printers dispersed throughout the company infrastructure.

Unfortunately, many companies overlook automating business communications by failing to improve the delivery of these critical business documents. They continue to use postal delivery, courier delivery, or manual faxing. All three of these methods include wasted material costs, human intervention, and delivery costs. Fortunately, this inefficiency may be significantly reduced or completely eliminated by using an automated document delivery solution.