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In
a rush?
C&P has you covered
When a
client suddenly decides that they need their
four-color gatefold mailer tomorrow instead of next
week, you need the Clients & Profits Rush
Manager to get it done today.
Rush it six different ways The Rush Manager lets
you assign one of six different, customizable
levels of priority to a job. (The rush categories
are defined in job preferences.) You can edit a
job's priority in the Production Planner orJob
Traffic window -- two places you are likely to be
thinking about (and wanting to change) a job's
priority.
Always know your priorities When you open the
Production Planner, jobs with the highest priority
will always sort to the top of the list so they are
never overlooked. A job's priority appears in red
on the Job Ticket window, and is easily viewed (and
edited) in a job's traffic window.
Keep everyone in the know When you assign a new
priority to a job, it resorts in the Production
Manager and is updated on the job ticket and any
other traffic reports and windows. Plus an entry is
automatically added to the job's diary to document
the change. (If you want to add details about why
the job's priority changed, just edit the job diary
entry.)
New flexibility for easy management Unlike generic
scheduling software designed for static
manufacturing environments, C&P's Rush Manager
adds a dimension of flexibility to your workflow.
Instead of mapping out a spidery chart that's
clumsy to edit, Clients & Profits works with
the fluidity an ad shop needs. You can edit,
reschedule, postpone, rush a job, and more, using a
software built for creative agencies, not gadget
makers.
Job Management 101 So how do you rush? Instead of
going crazy, go to Clients & Profits and edit
the job's priority using the Rush Manager. You'll
keep your cool ... and keep your deadline.
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By Brenda Lohr
The traffic and production departments have their own take
on what's important.
Information like who's working on what, how long it will
take to finish, and what's changing is what rocks their
world.
Customizing the Job Ticket window to contain important
production management, trafficking, and scheduling
information benefits staffers in those departments by
placing job details that they manage in one, easy-to-read
window.
Each user can set up the Job Ticket window's six columns to
contain information that would benefit them the most to have
at their fingertips, like estimate amounts, change order
amounts, estimated hours, actual hours, and PO amounts.
Depending on what the staffer oversees, a job ticket's
columns can also show budget amounts, outside costs, labor,
expenses, and billings.
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Being able to quickly review important
information about a job, like estimated versus actual hours,
change orders, and the like, will make a big difference in
moving the job through the shop -- and eliminating many
unpleasant surprises when it's done.
Staffers will find that being able to see at a glance
whether a job task is approaching its estimated hours, they
can make all kinds of smart decisions.
So the next time an AE leans over their desk and asks if
there's enough time left to tweak the illustration, they can
simply pull up the Job Ticket window and check the estimated
and actual hours columns.
Of course, they will still have to print various reports to
get an overview of many jobs, but if it's information about
one or a couple of jobs that they're after, what could be
easier than just reviewing them in one easy-to-read
window?
Especially when Clients & Profits lets them view job
tickets their way!
Brenda Lohr is a member of the Clients
& Profits Helpdesk.
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