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Networked Specification Management 

Creating and updating specifications can be labor-intensive and time-consuming. It takes a lot of people working together to get the job done. Even then, mistakes get made. Not only is cross-department collaboration and communication essential, suppliers play a critical role, too.

Often, this amounts to the use of several static tools, such as Word, Excel, phone calls, and emails that make it nearly impossible to track progress and understand status. If you’re managing specs like this, how do you know if you’ve got the right version and that a key attribute wasn’t overwritten along the way? This lack of version control can have serious downstream impact like expensive rework or worse, a recall. Fortunately, there’s a better way.

With networked Specification Management, companies can:

• Centralize specifications on a single platform.
• Author, publish, and update raw material and finished goods specifications.
• Streamline and automate internal and external stakeholder collaboration with automated workflows and alerts.
• Tap into more than a million supplier-provided documents to auto populate configurable spec templates.
• Choose which suppliers can access shared specifications, allowing them to author or edit, review read-only sections, add comments, attach documents, negotiate attributes, and approve or decline specifications

Sound complicated? It’s not. Check out our infographic for a snapshot of how networked Specification Management can streamline your business processes.