Forms Management goes electronic
-- GSD Office of State Printing and Standards, July 2003

State Forms Management is no longer stocking paper forms. The forms that had been physically stocked are now available via the Internet or through an electronic-order process.

Forms Management closed its forms distribution center in June 2002 after a two-year project to convert its paper-based inventory and ordering system to an Internet-based system. The project involved working with several state agencies to assist them in the transition from paper-based forms to Web-based forms.

As a result, all 98 forms previously stocked are now available on the Internet or through a print-on-demand electronic order form. This new order process, available through this central forms repository, automatically calculates the cost of the order, provides a search function to look up all transactions and sends e-mails to the customer indicating the order is being processed.

During fiscal year 2003, Forms Management trained 54 customers how to use the new central forms repository.