4/46-365 End of Month

It’s been a long day. Open business (new listings and pending contracts written on properties) isn’t run until after close of business on the 2nd business day of the following month. I just now fired off the program that emails out all of the reports to our brokers, regional VPs and the president of WRC. Personally, I think they’re a little ‘report happy’. 12 reports go to 39 sales offices, reports go to our two Relocations offices, and then there’s reports for Corporate. Over 600 reports are crunched and exported, then emailed out. (The Closed Business EOM, which is on the last business day of the month, has over 400 reports.) Nuts, huh?

While yes, I’m exhausted and not in the best of moods, the POSITIVE SIDE is that I’m about 3 or 4 steps away from having Open Business EOM automated. After 9 years of running these reports every month, I’m close to no longer having to do it manually. Oh sure, there will be errors at first because the users will have to be trained on a couple changes needed for the automation, but fixing those will be better than working until 8 or later for each Open EOM.

Time to log off the servers at work, and fix some dinner. Tomorrow is the comparative analysis reports, but folks aren’t waiting on them like they are on these. And if all goes well, maybe the August reports will be the first test on automation.