Production Management Features and Functions

• Customizable templates to ensure proper planning, management, and execution


• Ability to capture and group large numbers of custom attributes


• Ability to capture and attach unlimited amounts of information and files


• Project and task status (various views) and alerts


• Visual tools to see and specify task order and dependencies


• Date tracking (target versus actual)


• Forecasting date slips or budget overruns, not just reporting when it happens


• Task assignment and delegation


• Notifications for various task events (assigned, overdue, date changed, or deadline approaching)


• Distinguish key milestones


• Triggers: project workflow kicks off campaign or other process


• Message repository at the project level


• Ability to mark project planned, active, completed, or closed


• Filterable lists of projects: by standard and custom attributes


• Various views (i.e., lists, calendar, gantt, or other)


• Handling event-driven marketing, whenever customer changes his or her address or places service complaints


• Attachment management (e.g., upload files, point to document, URL)