proALPHA - Document Management

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In just about every business today more and more documents and records must be made available in ever-shorter time spans. proALPHA guarantees, with minimum administrative expense, structured and uniform storage of all your documents independent of data type and volume. That means your entire organisation (Sales, Engineering Design, Accounting, Production, Purchasing as well as the traditional users of document management, the administrative areas) each has immediate access to all company data.

Administrative areas are linked to the system by way of MS Office or OpenOffice integration. A proALPHA user can switch from any of the proALPHA modules directly into the desired Office application. All current parameters and field values, for example, order number, part number, customer address, or customer employee, are automatically transferred. In addition, any new document is automatically filed to the correct folder, that also means it is assigned to the correct proALPHA workflow processes.

At this point, the document becomes available to all authorised proALPHA, MS Office, OpenOffice and CAD users. This saves time and minimises the chance of errors when storing.

Often there are documents, such as sketches, handwritten notes, or brochures that exist only in paper form.

In order to reuse or edit such documents in digital form, they must first be scanned. This process is also available in proALPHA's Document Management System (DMS). Any context-dependent key data values required for document storage are directly assigned by the DMS.

The proALPHA Information and Controlling System (MIS) encompasses the complete flow of data and information in the whole proALPHA system. All areas (proALPHA, Office applications, CAD), have direct access to all current and archived data. It is possible to call up a complete summary of all the documents created for each process. Extensive search capabilities exist thanks to the key codes assigned at the time of archiving. and then of course, any document can be displayed, circulated or printed with just a click of the mouse