The Swedish car producer Volvo is known by most people, but only a few knows that it is InterForm that takes care of the daily handling and formatting of the company’s laser printed forms all coming from their IBM i™.
InterForm handles the full paper flow at Volvo
Today every document used when importing and selling a Volvo or Renault in Denmark is printed via InterForm.
Easy and efficient
Actually every Volvo and Renault owner in Denmark have had one or several documents in their hand that was printed through InterForm. This includes documents such as invoice, customs documents, warranty papers, and certificate of conformity.
Originally the installation of an electronic forms system on Volvo’s IBM i™ was only meant as replacement for a number of matrix printers, that were handling printout from the invoice system. The purpose was to obtain a saving on the pre-printed forms, and to ease the routines in connection with the difficult handling of the matrix-printers.
However it soon became clear that InterForm was able to handle far more than originally considered. InterForm's comprehensive import function allowed e.g. customs official forms, designed on a Macintosh, to be imported and used directly on the IBM i™ through InterForm. Today any changes to existing forms are downloaded from a diskette or from the Internet, easy and efficient.
InterForm grew with the assignments
The Danish Volvo importer is not the only one to obtain advantages with InterForm. The importers in Sweden, Norway and Finland also use the system. An official Certificate of Conformity is send from the main office in Sweden to the other Scandinavian countries, where it is printed in the required language and includes Volvo/Renault-logo and the signature of the responsible product manager.
InterForm has brought cost-savings and increased efficiency. This has given a great response in the entire company.
Peter Thomsen, Department Manager
Smooth transition with InterForm
In the future more and more pre printed forms will be replaced by electronic ones, because as Peter Thomsen says:
The change to electronic forms is not apparent when you use InterForm. InterForm forms use the original print, which means that the matrix printers still can be used while implementing a new electronic form.
The next assignment for InterForm, is to print the electronic forms directly at the 48 Danish Volvo resellers via TCP/IP connected laser printers on their AIX-platform – this will mean savings that can be seen on the financial results!
Intelligent document handling gives results. InterForm is a forms software program for IBM i ™ (AS/400) without external hardware that gives the company total freedom to design, save, print, e-mail and all reports as electronic forms.
Digital Signature & Security. InterForm meets the high security demands in Danish and European law relating to the transmission of electronic documents - such as electronic invoices.
Zebra & Intermec Labels. It is in InterForm just as simple to set up a label for a thermotransfer printer, as to set up a delivery note for a laser printer.
Advanced text processing directly on the IBM i™. InterWord combines the flexible layout of the PC document with the vast amounts of data IBM i™.
InterExcel - convert your reports into Excel format. InterExcel improves Corporate Communication and Branding!
WinPrint – the flexible choice. WinPrint allows you to connect almost all types of printers in your network - this includes label printers and even inkjet printers.
InterForm is total freedom in designing, handling and distributing print and e-mails
All our software solutions are especially developed for the IBM hardware platforms; AS/400, iSeries, i5, System i and Power Systems.
The supported operating systems are; OS/400, i5/OS and IBM i.