Networked Specification Management 

Creating and updating specs can be labor intensive and slow. It takes a lot of people working together to get the job done. 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 like Word, Excel, phone calls, and email that make it nearly impossible to track progress and understand status. If you’re currently 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 from TraceGains, you can:

• Centralize specifications in 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 over 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.