Preferred ISBN/UPC on PO Creation
When constructing an order, the latest ISBN from the bib record is used. It would be helpful if instead, the vendor could put the preferred ISBN/UPC into the 970 and when the PO was built, that PO number could be pulled from the 970 for the library rather than displaying a red exclamation and requiring the staff to manually check the PO to make sure Polaris selected the proper ISBN/UPC from the order record.
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Lucinda Stroud commented
This has been an ongoing issue for at least a decade if not longer. The last ISBN listed in the 020 tags of a bibliographic record always populates the purchase order line item when the titles are moved from the record set which was created from a list/cart in a vendor website and then downloaded and imported into Polaris for purchasing purposes. I was told a very long time ago it was a bug in Polaris. You are less likely to come across this issue with newly published titles, however, if you are ordering additional copies of existing titles in your catalog, this occurs very frequently.
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Barth, Christine commented
This is especially helpful in a consortium as multiple people add ISBNs for ordering. We have had occasional issues with the wrong things being ordered, or items not being ordered, because of the way it currently works.
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Ted Frahm commented
This would VERY helpful as staff in our consortium end up deleting these duplicate ISBN added to bib records in the 020 field as part of 9xx/EDI ordering. Having it instead be added to the other order data in the 970 would be more efficient on many levels. Great idea!
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Trish Pelletier commented
This would solve a long-time problem with POs and save a tremendous amount of time!
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Rex Helwig commented
This would resolve the numerous exclamation marks saving time and eliminating/reducing ordering mistakes.
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Amy Mihelich commented
This would definitely save our acquisitions folks a lot of time - both in having to double check orders before they are sent and in resolving errors.
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Beth Lane commented
We are in a consortium and see a lot of red exclamation marks. This would save us a lot of time.
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AdminSamantha Quell (Admin, Innovative) commented
This was a previous Idea Lab challenge winner that was not migrated to Idea Exchange. I'm adding it now to support voting for the new enhancement process.