Avanti Webinar Series

Join us as we host a series of webinars featuring Avanti's leading Print MIS system and a variety of exciting modules that are enabling print providers to streamline their processes from estimating to order entry right through to fulfillment.

Web-to-Print: Anytime/Anywhere Customer Communication with Avanti eAccess

The internet has changed everything including how your clients want to do business with you. Print service providers can extend customer reach by offering anytime/anywhere access with Avanti eAccess. Avanti’s eAccess provides a secure Web-based environment for your clients to communicate with you in real-time. Gain insight into how Avanti’s eAccess is assisting customers to:

Easily submit and manage print jobs on-line
Place orders using an online catalog with complete shopping cart functionality
Submit a Request for Quote (RFQ) to produce accurate and quick estimates for more complex orders
Track print jobs from order entry right through to shipping
Order Variable Form Templates such as Business Cards, Posters, Letterheads etc.
and much more...

CRM: Enhance Sales and Customer Insight with

Avanti CRM

Give your Print Shop’s sales & CSRs the tools they need to compete and win new business!

Avanti CRM enables you to better understand and manage your customers by providing your sales team with real-time access to up-to-date customer data at anytime and in anyplace.

Find out why Avanti’s CRM was recognized at this year’s ON DEMAND Conference with the Best of Show award for Microsoft Outlook integration. Discover how Avanti’s CRM with Microsoft Outlook Integration can:

Synchronize emails, contacts, tasks and appointments bi-directionally between Avanti’s Print MIS and Microsoft Outlook
Store, view and search specific customer data using user defined fields
View notes by job, by contact, by estimate, or by customers
and much more...

Avanti PRINT-MIS: Observe the Power of a Fully Integrated Print Shop Solution

Our experts take you through the Day In The Life of the Automated Print Shop. This fast paced webinar features our Award Winning Production, Business Intelligence and Web-to-Print software Applications plus our 6 Steps to Print Shop Automation Success. This non-technical session has been specifically designed for Printing Professionals from both commercial and in-house operations who want to benefit from the ROI that only a fully integrated solution can provide.

Avanti Business Triggers & Alerts: Proactively Monitor your Business Operations

Rush orders, new orders, change orders, cancelled orders. You need an effective way to pro-actively monitor your business and keep up-to-speed. Avanti’s Triggers and Alerts notify you of these changes immediately, reducing any unnecessary costs in production, saving you time and making you more responsive to customer needs.

See how Avanti’s Business Triggers and Alerts module offers you the ability to notify anyone you choose whenever anything significant happens in your shop. Real-time alerts ensure everyone is kept up-to-speed on production and customer issues that impact their job – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Learn how to:

Set up triggers for any change orders that require urgent notification
Create different types of alerts such as an email confirmation for notifying when a job is completed
Customize triggers and alerts which integrate with Web-to-Print features
Notify purchasing when an inventory item falls below minimum stock level
and much more...

Shipping & Integration: Automate Processes with Avanti

Managing shipments effectively is vital to your customers. See how Avanti’s Shipping module helps you manage your entire shipping process from customizing your own labels to transferring shipping and billing information to UPS or FedEx. We’ll show you how implementing this module completely eliminates the time and effort in re-keying tedious shipping information into a separate freight system and helps reduce the possibility of costly data entry errors. We will also demonstrate how:

Customer ship-to data is seamlessly passed from Avanti to your shipping system of choice, where all appropriate shipping documents are then created
UPS or FedEx systems can automatically transfer back tracking numbers and all costing information to Avanti
Integration to Avanti eAccess allows customers to track the status of their shipment on-line, 24/7
and much more...

Avanti eDashboard: Insight into Critical Information

Avanti’s eDashboard provides the fastest and easiest way to stay tuned into key information affecting the print shop. See how our eDashboard module delivers a graphical view and real-time status of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) impacting customer service, financials, operations, sales and marketing - all with powerful filtering and online analytical capabilities.

Unlike static dashboards that provide only summary information, Avanti’s eDashboard is linked to underlying information (i.e., estimates, invoices, change orders, production schedules), allowing for deeper investigation to isolate and understand the issues impacting your business. Gain insight into how:

Avanti’s eDashboard can be tailored for specific functional roles such as President/Owner, V.P. of Sales, V.P. of Manufacturing, Scheduling Manager, Production Manager, Controller, Sales Rep, and CSR
Drill-down capabilities allow users to access high-level overview charts and graphs and then click on particular portions of those reports to drill into more specific detail
Easy-to-customize GUI allows you to track information that’s relevant to you, such as orders, customers, quotes, contacts, sales, shipments, jobs, user defined fields, sales pipeline, and notes
You can combine information from multiple areas of the company to get a full picture
and much more....

Avanti’s Scheduling Modules: Enhance Your Ability to Deliver on Time, Every Time!

Getting control of your production schedule is becoming a bigger challenge everyday due to ever-shortening turnaround times, shorter runs and the inevitable “urgent” order from your best customer. Schedules in a print shop can change hourly and it is critical for management to make the appropriate adjustments as they occur.

Avanti’s Scheduling modules enable you to organize your jobs efficiently, maximize equipment utilization and plan your production workflow in advance. Integrated with several other Avanti modules, Avanti offers:

Milestones Scheduling: Integrated with Avanti’s Order Entry system, Milestone scheduling allows your production team to quickly and easily schedule and track all jobs by planned completion dates, ensuring you get the most out of your equipment and available manpower.

Finite Scheduling: Avanti's Finite Scheduling module takes our Milestone Scheduling to the next level. Providing an Electronic Scheduling Board (ESB), production planners have a real-time graphical view of all jobs currently in production as well as jobs to be scheduled. Avanti’s Finite Scheduling module allows you to capture significant payback by reducing schedule conflicts, overtime, outsourcing, and rush freight charges.

We’ll show you how our Scheduling modules make it easy to:

Access Better Information
Eliminate workflow bottlenecks
Increase customer service levels
Schedule jobs based on job and customer priority
Ensure on-time delivery
and much more...

Meeting & Exceeding Customer Needs with Avanti’s Fulfillment Module

Fulfillment is a critical part of a printer’s business. It is vital to manage the production, purchasing and supplying processes of all your customer’s goods. Increase your per customer revenue by not only delivering on their printing needs, but by also managing all the logistics of your customer’s inventory significantly enhancing the customer experience.

Avanti’s Fulfillment System expands the functionality of several Avanti modules and adds entirely new features to distribute and control finished goods. Integrated into the Inventory, Purchasing, and Order Entry modules; Fulfillment provides the ability to easily manage the process of customer orders and shipments from inventory. This webinar will demonstrate how:

Receive from production” functionality allows both cost and quantity to be tracked for all Finished Goods produced (individual items or kits), keeping you in complete control of your production process
Eliminate workflow bottlenecks
Increase customer service levels
Order Entry is extended to include the ordering of finished goods.
Back Orders are automatically generated and “on receipt” back ordered items are allocated to specific jobs, helping you manage your inventory stock
Shipping has the ability to ship to multiple locations for each client on a single order, reducing shipping charges for you and your customer
and much more...

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