September 27, 2004 - Reading time: 3 minutes

METRO Group project

Trade – that is the world of METRO Group, one of the worldwide largest trading groups. It was created in 1996 in a merger of several important retail companies. Based on its successful performance in the domestic market the group soon expanded into foreign markets as well. Today, METRO AG is at the head of a capital marketorientated, highly-competitive retail group with an international profile. At more than 2,300 locations in 28 countries the Metro company proves this competence – with concepts that meet the highest quality demands.

Business Units and Sales Divisions of the Group
METRO Group has a definite structured portfolio of group companies that operate in the market place according to distinct and specific distribution concepts. These so-called sales divisions operate in the four business units Cash & Carry, Food Retailing, Nonfood Specialty Stores and Department Stores. Their customers are both businesses and consumers. The six sales divisions of the METRO Group stand for names that have become for many people a part of everyday life:

• Metro Cash & Carry International GmbH
• Real SB-Warenhaus GmbH
• Extra Verbrauchermärkte GmbH
• Media-Saturn-Holding GmbH
• Praktiker-Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte AG
• Kaufhof Warenhaus AG

MIAG C.V. , Diemen NL, Branch Baar
Our Company belongs to the METRO AG and assume the centralized payment and its guarantee, as well as some international co-ordination for our European affiliated companies and their suppliers. In this connection we develope solutions for our customers, the suppliers of the Metro Group, to deliver the payment advice as a PDF. Also we provide the PDF on our Internet Portal www.miag.com for download. The monthly output is about 150'000 pages. A part of these we produce with txt2pdf.

Application
We receive the data from our Japanese business partner in a different codepage “shif-jis”, and we will import these in our database. Within the payment process we export the data from our Oracle 9i database, with an SQL procedure. A Cobol program provides a Ascii-file in the correct format. This Ascii-File will be converted with txt2pdf from Sanface. Normally, in use with western codepages, there are no problems. We use the utilities from txt2pdf (configured) for other projects, also with Czech and Slovakian characters. At the conversation from data with japanese and western characters, it was not possible to get a correct result with txt2pdf version 7.3. The problem was, to use „fixed width“ fonts. Since the characters are deposited still with a layout, the individual indications must always be positioned exactly. Unfortunately at the start of the project we can’t use txt2pdf within this project. With the assistance and support from Sanface, we fount a work around to create an account form, with “shift-jis” data from the data base, as well with both, japanese and western indications in the same print file.

Here you can find the original PDF file description of this project.

August 26, 2003 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Océ made a corporate agreement with SANFACE Software to "use txt2pdf for an internal application (ASCII files to pdf)" (Michael Kronthaler) and signed an agreement to allow us to cite the project.

May 10, 2002 - Reading time: ~1 minute

JDanSkinner.com has signed an agreement with SANFACE Software to use txt2pdf to produce PDF files from their application InnControl.
InnControl is a comprehensive back office accounting system for hospitality companies. Unix based and designed to reduce complexity and administrative attention while delivering the multi-user and multi-company function you require.

October 24, 2001 - Reading time: ~1 minute

The Corporate Accounting System (CAS) of the Province of British Columbia uses Oracle Financials software.
Modules implemented include General Ledger, Payables, Purchasing, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, and Project Accounting.
CAS makes use of txt2pdf PRO software to convert text reports to pdf format.
This has eliminated the need to define and maintain printers in the CAS Oracle system.
Before txt2pdf PRO was implemented, some 1500 printers had to be defined in the system, with another 1500 being planned.
After txt2pdf PRO was put into operation, only forty-three printers needed to be defined.

October 10, 2001 - Reading time: ~1 minute

The agreement Soluzioni Software signed with SANFACE Software is ended.

Soluzioni Software MAY NOT to use our technology inside its ERP ADAPTA.