In order to achieve speed-to-market, reduce errors, and eliminate redundant steps in your supply chain effective scheduling and workflow management is key. Here are some important aspects of managing time and action:

• Event tracking with real-time visibility into workflow.
• Flexible email reminders providing notifications for pending and past due tasks.
• Exception measurement for identifying problems quickly and taking action.

Aria’s Scheduling & Workflow functionality accomplishes all of the above and more. The system assures you of things running smoothly, but most importantly, makes you aware of things that are not, so you can focus on problems at their source.

The new features can help you plan and monitor the timely progress in every step of a project, from concept design to sample creation during product development for example, and also provide a self- sustained mechanism to manage workflow – tracking scores of sales orders from raw materials sourcing all the way to warehousing and distribution – all without requiring your constant intervention.

Here are some of the scheduling and workflow enhancements in Aria 4XP:

Automated Email Notifications: Customers are now able to schedule automated email notifications as reminders for major milestones or alerts for deadlines. These notifications can be scheduled to be sent to multiple recipients or individual contributors at specific points within the project timeline.

For instance, you need to send reminders to designers for specifications to a private label product in order to meet client deadlines for delivery, or send reminders to a supplier that materials are due on a certain date. Just include the appropriate email addresses, comments, and the target date you want the reminder sent (this in relation to the due date, e.g. two days prior), as a new activity within the project and the system will do the rest.

New Project Monitor: Users can now define and view only the tasks that are relevant to them and easily monitor activities associated with these tasks. The new project activity template provides customizable color schemes to make it easy to identify areas requiring attention (e.g. incomplete tasks past their due date) and helps keep managers focused on the task at hand.

The system provides drill-downs on the history of each task and an Audit Trail with a new “User Comment” field that allows task owners to post explanatory notes. Managers are also able to reschedule tasks from within the Project Monitoring interface.

Support for New Types of Projects: The Project Details function now supports two different types of projects: one for the creation of a Style, Purchase Order, Sales Order or Cutting Ticket, and another where you can define any other project you like. Of course, scheduling and monitoring capabilities come standard.

For more information on how Aria’s 4XP Enterprise Resource Planning Suite with Scheduling & Workflow functionality can help streamline your operations and improve your bottom line:

Email us: sales@ariany.com or Call us: (212) 714-1334.