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In this edition of our newsletter, we provide you with a broad range of information
about what is going on in our company, plans for the future – in addition to informa-
tion regarding the software enhancements delivered in the second patch of this year.
Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. I look forward in anticipation
to answering your questions.
Integrated reporting ........................ 2 and BI with Klopotek
Building bridges between Bari ...... 3 and Berlin... INTERVIEW
Chapter-based Business ................... 4
Peter Lang “invests in ..................... 5 a new global enterprise software”: Klopotek
Many new customers for ................ 7 Klopotek North America Save the Date: Publishers‘ .............. 8 Forum from 28-29 April 2016
New perspectives – did you miss out?
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TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S
We presented new products and our plans
for the future at this year’s Frankfurt Book
Fair and at the User Group Germany. In case
you didn’t manage to visit us or you have
additional questions, please get in touch
with us. If you have a good knowledge of
German, you can also check out the videos of
this year’s User Group in the ‘Events’ section
of our website (‘User Group Deutschland’ –
please make sure to select ‘Deutsch’ as your
website language). Some videos, such as the
presentation of the Web App ‘Rights, Licens-
es and Permissions Manager’ are in English.
Detailed information on all of our new apps,
which run on the cloud-centric technology
platform Klopotek STREAM and can be used
on computers and portables, is available in
the ‘STREAM’ section of our website.
Dear reader,
Yours, George Logan
The Classification Manager enables editorial, sales, and marketing users to identify the relevant categories easily and to classify their products.
Meetings at the Klopotek stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015. If you didn’t manage to meet us: information on our new products is available online.
George Logan, Senior VP, Klopotek North America
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Dr. Frank Sambeth, CEO of Verlagsgruppe
Random House, said of the cooperation
between Klopotek and VLB-Services: “This
creates an opportunity for us to classify our
title data and add key words at a very high
level. As a result, we will be able to provide
booksellers with the best possible informa-
tion and also to do our bit in the overall
goal of the industry to quickly improve the
quality of the data.” The process of getting
the entire backlist of all imprints (about
17,000 titles) categorized by the two partners
has already been started by Verlagsgruppe
Random House.
Contract-related processes made easy: Web App Contract Workflow Manager
Another product which runs on the STREAM
platform will make your life easier: The
Klopotek Contract Workflow Manager
enables you to easily create and manage
contract documents and ensures the trans-
parency and manageability of the signature
process. With this web app, it is possible to
manage the creation, approval and signing
of a contract document in an overarching
process.
In the ‚Contract Workflow Manager‘, it is
always clear which phase a contract work-
flow is in and whether the related tasks will
be completed on schedule. You can actively
intervene in the workflow from within the
‚Contract Workflow Manager‘, for example,
by sending e-mail reminders to the people
responsible for certain tasks. Find out more
on our website in the ‘STREAM’ section.
Integrated reporting and BI with Klopotek
Klopotek and Pentaho, the commercial open-
source alternative for business intelligence
(BI), have reached an OEM agreement which
will allow Klopotek to embed and distribute
Pentaho‘s open-source business intelligence
capabilities within their ERP suite for publish-
ing.
By embedding open-source BI modules from
Pentaho, Klopotek will enable its customers
to extract even more strategic and analyti-
cal value from the information they store
and manage within the Klopotek publishing
solution. The breadth and modularity of
Pentaho‘s offering will facilitate everything
from embedded operational reporting on
day-to-day operations to extracting and inte-
grating Klopotek ERP data with information
from other systems for advanced data ware-
housing and OLAP analysis. The integrated
products will be delivered by Klopotek early
2016.
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‘thema’ standard: Verlagsgruppe Random House opts for the service to categorize entire backlist – web app Classification Manager
Classifying books, e-books, and other prod-
ucts is a key factor in product marketing and
sales. Products that are tagged with a high-
quality subject classification profit from in-
creased visibility in different markets, whilst
becoming more discoverable by potential
buyers and intended target audiences.
National and international industry stan-
dards bodies such as EDItEUR, BISG, or BIC
have been working on classification schemas
as a service and tool for the book industry’s
supply chain for many years. Classification
schemes such as ‘thema’, BISAC and BIC are
large category trees that are designed to
cover all relevant subject areas or classifica-
tion needs.
The Klopotek Classification Manager is a
STREAM product designed to complement
the Klopotek publishing suite. The Web App
links directly to Klopotek’s product pool and
offers a selection of features that support the
classification of products with an optimum
number of relevant industry categories while
maintaining its focus on the overall classifica-
tion workflow.
You can also make use of a service provided
by our partner: VLB-Services which helps to
improve the quality of your metadata and
the discoverability of your titles by creat-
ing ‘thema’ subjects and qualifiers, and key
words. It is also possible to get their help
for checking the quality of existing ‘thema’
subjects, qualifiers, and key words.
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“We chose Pentaho because of their exten-
sive functionality and expertise in the area of
business intelligence, from simple reporting
tools to providing for highly sophisticated
business intelligence needs. The ease with
which we’re able to embed their features
into both the Classic Line of our publishing
solution and our cloud-centric STREAM plat-
form convinced us to incorporate Pentaho as
a component of our technological transition.
We recognized a strong demand for the
latest state-of-the-art business intelligence
capabilities and an integrated solution that
brings our popular technologies together
in a way that creates significant additional
customer value in a commercial open-source
delivery model,“ explained Peter Karwowski,
CTO of Klopotek.
Building bridges between Berlin and Bari
Interview with Klaus Köhler, Software Architect, Klopotek Software & Tech-nology Services GmbH
Klaus, you will move from Berlin, where Klopotek Software & Technology Services GmbH is located, to Gioia del Colle near Bari to the newly established office of Klopotek Software & Technology Services Italia S.r.l. at the beginning of January 2016. Why?In Bari we’re putting a focus on developing
applications which run on the new cloud-
centric platform Klopotek STREAM. One of
my main tasks will be to ensure that these
new apps have all the functionality of our
Classic Line software solution and use the
same data model.
Why have you been chosen for this role?
Well, I have 20 years experience of working
in Berlin, so I can add 20 years of working
in Bari to this (Klaus laughs). No – for one
thing, I have extensive experience in the area
of Contracts, Rights & Royalties, which is the
main area of development we’re focusing
on in Bari. Plus, I’ve always had two roles:
Software Developer and Product Manager.
As a domain expert and a technician I can
easily switch between these two worlds and
build bridges.
Why is this so important?
In Bari we’ve established a new, young team
of about 15 staff. If your software develop-
ment processes are agile – and this is the case
for all developers in the Klopotek Group,
just as it is for this newly established team –
which means that you’re constantly switch-
ing and rotating between user stories and
implementing – you need domain experts
in your office who’ll always be available for
exchange of information. If you don’t have
that you don’t have smooth communica-
tion between the different offices where
software is being developed. My colleague
Zivojin Lazarevic, who will also move to Italy,
will be in an almost similar position of build-
ing bridges between Bari and Berlin.
What do you think about your new role?I look forward to working with my new
colleagues and to mastering the challenge
of connecting the ‘STREAM world’ with the
Klopotek Classic Line. Plus, this will not be
a job done in one or two months; I’ll be on
a new contract with the same terms as my
colleagues in Italy. I could stay there for quite
some time. The moment for making this
change is ideal for me, as my kids have just
finished school. And Bari and
its surroundings are ideal for
riding my motorbike, which
is something I love to do in
my free time.
Make life easier: Klopotek software as a Hosted Software Solution
If you wish to use the Klopotek publish-
ing solution, but don’t want to operate an
in-house installation, we would be happy to
provide you with secure, reliable hosting in
a modern data center. You save IT resources
and the cost of a software implementation
installation project, have your expenses
under control thanks to fixed, monthly costs,
and receive high-speed, high-availability
access to the Klopotek software around the
clock – just like you would with an in-house
installation.
Whether you’re in the office, on the move, or
working from home, with an
Internet connection to our
data center, you have access
to every business process
that you want to support
using the Klopotek solu-
tion. Our range of hosting
services covers not only our
rich-client solution, it also
includes the web apps that
run on Klopotek STREAM.
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Klaus Köhler, pictured in front of the Berlin office, will move to Bari (with his motorbike).
Bundling: Klopotek’s broad range of capabilities?
Did you know that in Klopotek O2C (Order
to Cash), you can manage a huge variety
of product bundles and components: print
and online versions of subscription products,
physical and digital one-off products, sets,
and bundled subscription products (bundle in
bundle)? Bundling is a great way of making
combined offers and of giving your custom-
ers incentives to purchase more.
The traditional, simplest and most com-
monly employed business model in this area
is Top-down Bundling: the customer orders
a bundle for a fixed price. Klopotek also
supports more complex Bottom-up Bundling,
which has the advantage that your attrac-
tive offer tempts the customer to buy more
products than originally planned – namely as
components of a bundle which is assembled
or expanded during the sales process.
Whether Top-down or Bottom-up – changes
made to the order in the web shop are trans-
ferred directly to the backend – your Klopo-
tek system – without manual intervention.
When implementing new business models and product forms, different contents are flexibly
combined to offer a wide range of different product versions. For example, the hardcover ver-
sion of a title can contain three chapters while the e-book version contains the same chapters
plus a video which is also separately sold at the same time.
E-publishing makes it necessary for us to think about products as well as plan and manage them
in a fundamentally different way. Assets to be managed and put together flexibly can be texts
for chapters and sub-chapters or audio and video files. In some situations, these elements of con-
tent can even be further broken down into smaller units/components (‘chunks’), such as specific
text segments in a chapter. Within the context of the so called ‘chapter-based business’, these
components have to be planned and the respective rights managed so that the components
can be sold ensuring that the revenues created are linked to the correct contracts and royalty
accounts. As of version 11.0 of our software, we have the solution for you – which, in a nutshell,
means to replace the ‘product’ with the ‘work’ for each step of the process:
Your planning process starts off with a ‘work’ and not immediately at the level of the sales prod-
uct. The ‘work’ serves as the top-level frame for the individual manifestations of a product. Start-
ing with the ‘work’, you first plan all of your contents independent of the concrete products.
At the level of the ‘work’, you create a hierarchical structure which is made up of the individual
components (including originators and metadata). Following this, you assign the components to
the versions planned for your products.
Contract management enables you to flexibly manage rights by assigning contracts to individual
components. In the case of component contracts, you can automatically create contract units for
the individual components and copy the essential planning data in the same step. You can define
general rules for rights and royalties which can be modified for each contract unit that belongs
to a component. The contract documents are created and managed for each component in the
Klopotek Web App ‘Contract Workflow Manager’, which runs on the STREAM platform.
To sell and export the relevant elements of content, you can plan different sales products and as-
sign them to the components. Once you have completed planning, you can transfer the planned
products and components to the ‘Products’ module to make them available there as the basis for
all further processes. (The functions for sales are not a part of the current ‘chapter-based busi-
ness’ version.)
Just jump into it: single sign-on – jump-in
In the daily routine of working at a publishing house, there are always applications Klopotek
should be connected with, such as a content editing or a financial system. Now, as of version
10.8, Klopotek provides a single sign-on option and generic jump-ins, which enable seamless con-
nections between the individual applications without having to re-enter the login information.
E-variants of products: finally the waiting has come to an end
An agreement you’ve waited a long time for: The publishing industry has now taken the decision
to use one ISBN per product variant, so there is less administration work, especially in you use
our system: As of version 11.0, our ‘E-Variants of Products’ functionality enables you to create
the ISBN for the respective format – also MOBI, PDF, E-PUB, … – and having done that you just
create the respective data record below the edition which is associated – done.
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The individual parts of a product can be more than the entire product itself: chapter-based business
Patch-News Fall 2015
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Peter Lang “invests in a new global enter-prise software”: Klopotek
The international academic publishing group
Peter Lang has opted for Klopotek as their
new system. “By investing in a new publish-
ing software from leading provider Klopotek,
information on the production and distri-
bution of more than 55,000 available titles
and yearly approximately 1,800 new titles is
available in a global, standardized system for
the first time,” the company stated in a press
release.
Kelly Shergill, CEO Peter Lang AG, added:
“The digital transformation has profoundly
changed publishing in general and scientific
publishing in particular. With the implemen-
tation of the Klopotek publishing software
we can address these changes and serve the
growing needs of a scientific community for
content that is up-to-date, flexible and easily
accessible. Peter Lang thus positions itself
as a pioneer in an industry that is rapidly
changing.”
Simon & Schuster UK selects Klopotek for handling complex royalty arrangements
After a careful review of available solutions
in the marketplace, Simon & Schuster – with
offices in Australia, India, Canada and the
United States – has opted for Klopotek as
their new solution due to its proven ability
to handle complex royalty arrangements for
both print and digital.
The implementation which has already
started will include migrating all contracts
and historic data from the old system, estab-
lishing a nightly import of book sales from
Simon & Schuster’s distributor Harper Collins
and building interfaces to Simon & Schuster’s
financial system.
ONIX codes for product variants: As of version 11.0, you can now use our ‘XML Export in
ONIX 3.0 Format’ interface, which exports new, modified, and deleted data records from the
‘Products’ module so they can be forwarded to various recipients (e.g. Books in Print). In the
export, product variants are output as individual products which differ by variant type.
Global companies need global software
Has your company been establishing additional
offices in Europe or around the world? Do you
want to use and manage data and systems
centrally in various languages? Do you want to
minimize the use of interfaces, ensure that all
data of all local applications is identical, and to
provide your partners around the globe with
product data, sales and distribution informa-
tion, and statistics? Is it vital that the stocks of
all of your distribution centers, the inter-compa-
ny processing procedures, and the handling of
the various tax systems are linked in a continu-
ous cycle? If the answer is ‘yes’, then you should
opt for the ‘Global Sales System’ as an enhance-
ment to Klopotek O2C (Order to Cash), available as of version 11.0: a single system, seven
languages, local tax systems, all data in a single instance and managed centrally.
The ‘Global Sales System’ makes it possible to operate diverse distribution locations on a cen-
tral installation and perform specific invoicing runs for each country. The increased versatility
in the invoicing system provides e.g. the option to sell one-off and subscription products of
independent companies under a single proprietor.
For you as a publishing group with subsidiaries in multiple countries and corresponding
country-specific legal entities, the homogenization of operational processes across coun-
try and company boundaries is a significant competitive advantage. The transparency and
comparability of workflows with a minimum of data redundancy both make a significant
contribution toward increasing efficiency in your company.
With the ‘Global Sales System’, you centralize management and control of your operational
processes, while still executing these processes where it is most efficient to do so and al-
lowing for the peculiarities of the individual legal entities within the group. From editorial,
contracts and production to sales, marketing and distribution – every department in your
company can profit from homogenization and centralization.
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UK Finance Director Mark Ollard of Simon &
Schuster UK explains the reasons for switch-
ing to Klopotek: “One feature of the exciting
modern publishing industry is that there are
more and more complexities and variables on
rights and contract design. As one of the UK’s
largest publishers we absolutely want to lead
on this and be flexible enough to meet and
exceed our author and agent expectations.
I have used Klopotek in a previous life and I
am confident that it can handle anything we
choose to throw at it”.
Guid mornin: Klopotek opens second UK office in center of Glasgow
Klopotek is happy to announce the opening
of its second UK office based in the center
of Glasgow, adjacent to Glasgow Central
Station.
John Lawson, Director of Klopotek UK,
commented: “Klopotek UK is positioned for
future growth, and we must be conveniently
located to attract the best people. This sec-
ond office location allows us also to consider
applicants living in the Glasgow area as we
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The Waterloo Chambers office building in the center of Glasgow.
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continue to expand our talent pool to better
service our UK customers. With our London
office situated on the edge of London’s Tech-
City only 30 minutes from London City Air-
port and our Glasgow office just 8 miles – 15
mins – from Glasgow airport, the location is
also super convenient for visiting colleagues
and clients from our European offices.”
So in case you’d like to visit us in our newly
established office, why not practice a little
bit: http://www.omniglot.com/language/
phrases/scots.php
Many new customers for Klopotek North America
A number of publishers in the USA have cho-
sen Klopotek to support their processes:
Regan Arts, Rowman & Littlefield, Discov-
ery House, and Sounds True. Here’s a list of
reasons:
Our numbers of the year 2014
The year 2015 is coming to an end. We’ll get
our numbers for our performance in 2015
at the beginning / in the spring of 2016. If
you don’t want to wait for that, here are our
numbers of 2014:
Klopotek O2C (Order to
Cash) was used to pro-
cess invoices or royalties
totaling approximately
4.2 billion euros net.
0.6 million authors and
1.5 million contracts and
25 million royalty rules
were handled using
Klopotek CR&R (Con-
tracts, Rights & Royal-
“Because of the dynamic development of
the digital rights sphere, contract creation,
rights sales and acquisitions, and royalty
statements are getting more complex. We
needed a robust and flexible system with
a friendly web interface to handle all of
these aspects, which is why we chose Klo-
potek CR&R to replace our legacy system”.
Nils McCarty, CFO, Sounds True
ties). This resulted in 350,000 royalty docu-
ments and 1.3 million payment transactions.
Klopotek TMP (Title Management & Product
Marketing) supported a total of around 4.4
million products of more than 350 publishers
with more than 4,400 imprints.
“Klopotek will help us to provide complete
and consistent metadata for our print and
multimedia titles and to handle metadata
management and data supply in the stan-
dard ONIX format”. “
Kurt Andrews, Director of Global Sourcing, Supply
Chain, Logistics and Production, Regan Arts
“Managing and exploiting rights efficiently
has become a key element in a publisher
and distributor’s success. Klopotek provides
certainty when selling rights, constant
access to all available rights and sub-rights
and automatic creation of offers and sales
contracts.”
Bob Marsh, COO, Rowman & Littlefield
“After an extensive review of available
solutions in the marketplace our team
decided to opt for the Klopotek Contracts,
Rights and Royalties system, as it is the
best-of-breed solution for handling royalty
payments for multiple types of content.” “
Carol Holquist, VP of Global Publishing, Discovery
House
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New board of supervisors brings additional international experience to Klopotek AG
The annual general meeting of the Klopotek
AG took place in Berlin on 24 August 2015. In
this meeting, Ilhan Aksoycan was re-elected
as Chairman of the Supervisory Board; Dr.
Johann Kempe and Dr. Rüdiger Salat were
elected as new members.
Ilhan Aksoycan, MBA, was
CTO/CIO for Wolters Kluwer
NV worldwide from 2000-
2009. Since 2009 he has been
a strategic consultant and
interim manager in the areas
of publishing, IT, innovation,
mergers & acquisitions, and
investments.
Dr. Johann Kempe has been
Member of the Executive
Board of C.H.BECK in the
areas of technology and
business development since
October 2014. From 2001-14
he was CIO of the Holtz-
brinck Publishing Group
where he was responsible
for various projects in the fields of techno-
logical and digital transformation.
Dr. Rüdiger Salat worked
for many years as Managing
Director of DTV (Deutscher
Taschenbuchverlag) be-
fore joining the Board of
Directors of the Holtzbrinck
Publishing Group until 2013.
Since 2013, he has been
a consultant in the media
industry, and in 2015 he was appointed
Executive Director of Facultas Verlags- und
Buchhandels AG.
Ulrich Klopotek, CEO of
Klopotek AG, said about
the newly elected board of
supervisors: “I am delighted
that Ilhan, who has been
a significant value to the
Klopotek AG since 2010,
Johann, and Rüdiger will
make a contribution to the
strategic development of our company as
experienced and renowned representatives
of the publishing and media industry.”
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Ulrich Klopotek member of the board of supervisors of Greiner
Ulrich Klopotek, CEO Klopotek AG, has been
elected as a Member of the Board of Supervi-
sors of the Greiner Holding AG in June 2015.
“The Greiner Group is one of the leading
companies in the plastic and foam industry.
Diversification, innovation and internation-
alization characterize the success of the
Group in the Austrian plastic industry,” is
a description of the company published at
www.greiner.at/
en/group/. The
Greiner Group
has more than
8,000 employees.
Together, the
divisions of the
company operate
more than 130
locations (produc-
tion and sales
sites) around the
world. The rev-
enue generated
by the company in
2014 is more than
1.3 billion Euro.
“Products for daily life”
“Even if they would not be recognized as
such at a glance, products from Greiner are
indispensable for our daily life – whether it
is the yogurt pot at breakfast, the rear shelf
in the car on the way to work or the foam
mattresses that we sleep on.” To cater for
this wide range of products, Greiner Hold-
ing AG is divided into areas of competence:
“Greiner Packaging International produces
plastic packaging for the food and non-food
sectors. Greiner Bio-One International is one
of the world’s leading companies in the fields
of preanalytics, life sciences and diagnostics.
Greiner Foam International produces foams
for many wide-ranging applications. Greiner
Perfoam produces visible parts for the interi-
or and trunk, as well as acoustic components,
especially for premium vehicle manufactur-
ers. Greiner Tool.Tec is the world market
leader in tools for the extrusion of window
profiles. In addition to the five operative
divisions, Greiner Holding AG also includes
Greiner Real Estate, Greiner Technology &
Innovation and the Greiner crèche.”
Klopotek donates computers
Klopotek donated 20 desktop computers
from Dell to the OSZ IMT in Berlin (Ober-
stufenzentrum Informations- und Mediz-
intechnik – Berlin College of Further Educa-
tion for Information Technology and Medical
Equipment Technology). “The OSZ IMT is a
type of school at upper secondary level that
is comprised of various vocational schools of-
fering courses in both general and vocational
education subjects at grades 11 to 13. Infor-
mation technology or medical equipment
technology is part of all courses.” (Source:
http://www.oszimt.de/index.php?id=88)
We’re happy to be able to support this school
for the second time. Other schools and edu-
cational institutions also received desktop
computers, laptops and computer monitors
from us.
Klaus Seidel, Vice Headmaster of OSZ IMT, on the right, to-gether with Roger Schwarze, Head of IT Services, Klopotek, left, pictured while collecting the donated computers.
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© Klopotek 2015
Save the Date: Publishers’ Forum from 28-29 April 2016
The motto for the 2016 event is: “All that
publishing!”: “How the business of books is
expanding, converging and fragmenting – all
at the same time.”
Rüdiger Wischenbart, Head of the Forum,
will focus on four themes: “The new com-
plexity: core business versus exploration”,
“New thinking, new practices: close-ups of
new actors and concepts in publishing busi-
ness”, “Managing contradictory require-
ments with IT: extending the value chain and
organizing complex processes”, and “Think-
ing beyond the page: mobile, cross-media,
and social media-driven.”
In addition to a new, fantastic venue (dbb fo-
rum berlin), the Publishers’ Forum 2016 will
feature a sharper distinction between the
two conference days, with Thursday focusing
on the big overarching questions defining
the current transformation of the industry,
while Friday will highlight lessons learned for
the daily business in the organization.
Register now at www.publishers-forum.com:
our attractive early bird rate is available until
31 January 2016.
“20 full work days saved”: HCCP notes regarding enhancement for statement printing by due date terms
Thomas Nelson Publishers (now a part of
HarperCollins Christian Publishing - HCCP)
has been using Klopotek for royalties since
2008. It is fairly typical in the publishing
industry for a company’s contracts to have
standard reporting and payment terms for all
authors.
However, our contracts have always had a
wide range of terms – covering monthly,
quarterly, semi-annual, and annual periods
and, from there, terms of 30, 45, 50, 60, 90,
etc. days to report.
As we made further changes and integrated
with HarperCollins’ systems, it became ap-
parent that we needed a way to not only be
able to issue payments according to specific
terms (inherent in Klopotek’s system), but
also to manage printing of statements the
same way.
We approached Klopotek with this request
and, after discussion to understand our need
and its benefits, they set to work to allow
the statement printing to include an option
to print to terms. To ensure full closure of
a royalty period, we release all statements
at the same time. Now, instead of having to
print them all together, we can release the
statements and then only select to print the
ones that are coming due.
This means that, instead of directly printing
tens of thousands of pages (only to have
to sort them manually by due date) we can
select just the statements with the terms we
want to focus on. Over the last year, we have
saved over 20 full work days by eliminating
the manual sorts. We are able to efficiently
match statements to checks, and we can
manage the physical paper and envelopes
one “terms” group at a time. We are more
organized for review and mailings and we
ensure that we utilize the system’s informa-
tion to determine the correct statement due
date.
Article written by Christine Jones
Sr. Director of Finance
HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Would you like more information?
We are happy to provide you with more in-
formation about the enhanced functionality
of our software and the other information
briefly described in this newsletter. Please
contact me to learn more.
George Logan
Christine Jones, Sr. Director of Finance, HarperCollins Christian Pub-lishing, USA
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