A transmittal document is a "packing slip" for a document or collection of documents that are transferred from one
company
A company, abbreviated as co., is a Legal personality, legal entity representing an association of people, whether Natural person, natural, Legal person, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common p ...
to another.
The transmittal might be just the front page in an extensive document. But more often it is a separate document file that contains details of the
documents
A document is a writing, written, drawing, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of nonfiction, non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. The word originates from the Latin ''Documentum'', w ...
that are sent. The transmittal also contains specific (company or project-related) details to help further processing of the documents for the recipient.
The content of the transmittal document depends on the situation. Some typical content in a transmittal can be:
* Date of the sending.
* Name details of sender/company and recipient/company.
* Project name, number(s), and other references to the project.
* Reason(s) for sending.
* Deadline(s) and/or descriptions of actions to be taken by recipient.
* Other status details.
* List of files sent: file name, size, type, revision number and other relevant metadata.
* Limitations, security measures or other dependencies of the document transmittal.
Transmittals are used in
engineering
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and
construction
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companies as a necessary tool in projects where a large number of documents are involved. Several document handling systems have functions for generating transmittal document along with packages of document for transfer.
See also
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Letter of transmittal
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* Letter (alphabet), a character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet.
* Letterform, the graphic form of a letter of the alphabe ...
External links
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