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-to-Invoice: Simplify Your Entire Billing Process

Are you interested in web-to-print but also wonder how this impacts your “back office” processes? Perhaps you already have a web-to-print solution, but it's not integrated with your production and billing system.

This webinar will demonstrate how Avanti's touchless workflow fully automates the order process from the moment an order is submitted across the web, through production, and into billing where invoices are automatically populated using real-time information.

Not only can you provide an easy-to-use customer experience for submitting and tracking jobs across the web, but also greatly reduce the number of times a job needs to be touched by someone in the shop. Avanti can help you streamline the time, effort, and cost associated with managing jobs submitted over the Web.

This webinar will discuss:

the Web-to-Print-Invoice process and how it simplifies your customer’s experience
the ability to remove human “touchpoints” from the time the job is ordered to the time it is shipped and billed
the elimination of rekeying information into different back end systems for job ticketing, shipping, and billing
the reduction of both labor costs and turnaround time, improving operational efficiencies by automating the production workflow

Streamline Shipping with Process Shipper for Avanti NEW!

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Eliminate double entries, increase productivity, reduce errors and maximize cash flow to improve your bottom line! Designed specifically for the printing industry, Process Shipper is a web-based, multi-carrier shipping solution that seamlessly integrates to your Avanti Business Management Software for processing 100% of your shipments. (UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS, Canada Post, LTL, Couriers, Company Vehicles and more)

This webinar demonstrates a bi-directional workflow eliminating steps in the shipping process as the shipping department no longer works within Avanti screens to process shipments. This one step “pack-and-ship” approach utilizes a single set of Process Shipper screens to reduce the average shipping time down from 5 minutes per shipment to less than 30 seconds.

Once an order is placed in Avanti, simply scan a barcode in the shipping department to automatically transfer order/job details to Process Shipper. The shipping system prints all the necessary labels and documentation (including the packing list) and immediately updates Avanti with the shipping status, carrier information, number of packages, tracking numbers, and freight charges.

Grow and Succeed with Avanti & Xerox!

Avanti has developed several workflow integration points into Xerox’s FreeFlow® Digital Workflow collection that seamlessly provide for automated job submission, tracking, costing and billing, regardless of how a job is submitted to the shop. When combining Xerox and Avanti, the result is a complete solution that is customizable and scalable to each print service provider’s unique business needs. In this session, you’ll see how the Avanti/Xerox synergy can help to:

Make better decisions and more effectively manage the business by receiving actual costing information for each digital job
Maximize printing capacity by doing more in less time and with fewer mistakes
Save time by eliminating time-consuming manual data entry by the CSR, freeing them up to focus on more important tasks
Improve customer satisfaction by reducing turnaround time
Better manage inventory (ie. paper) through real-time information on specific paper used on each job
Make it easier for your client to do business with you by providing 24/7 access to the Print Shop.

For more information on Avanti’s Print MIS integration with Xerox’s Freeflow™ Digital Workshop collection, click here Xerox Freeflow Integration.

Gimbel & Associates - Rev up your Revenue with Business Development

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Would you like to get more out of your software investment? Are you challenged in implementing your own marketing campaigns? Has your sales team been slow to adopt CRM and other new technologies?

Gimbel & Associates, an Avanti business partner, is focused on business development and consultative sales training. In this webinar the Gimbel team will demonstrate proven strategies to leverage your technology investments, both software and hardware, to get results. Hear how an effective business development plan will enable you to implement sales and marketing programs and hear how other customers have generated incremental revenue with a sound business development strategy.

This webinar will discuss

How a business development plan will ramp up your software deployment
How to get your sales team to adopt CRM strategies
How other companies have generated new revenue with effective software deployment
How to implement successful multi-channel campaigns with CRM

Gimbel & Associates is an international management consulting firm working to ignite business growth through digital technologies. We offer clients solutions to grow their bottom line by providing consulting for sales and marketing, strategic planning and operational analysis for growth and efficiency.

Visit us as www.rogergimbel.com

Gain a Competitive Edge with Avanti & HP

Bringing the benefits of highly automated workflows into reach for thousands of HP Indigo users, HP and Avanti have developed an interface to integrate Avanti’s award winning Print MIS software with the HP SmartStream workflow portfolio. Avanti is the only provider of MIS software in North America to offer this level of connectivity with HP SmartStream. With Avanti, virtually all facets of the print shop, such as job submission, printing and business management functions like estimating, purchasing, job costing and tracking, are now automated.

This webinar will demonstrate how the Avanti/HP synergy can:

Significantly reduces costs throughout the print production process by eliminating points at which human intervention is typically required
Save time by eliminating time-consuming manual data entry by the CSR, freeing them up to focus on more important tasksReduce re-work caused by transcription errors from incorrect job informationIncrease customer satisfaction by reducing turnaround timeMore effectively manage the business by receiving actual costing information for each digital jobBetter manage inventory (ie. paper) through real-time information on specific paper used on each job
Make it easier for your clients to do business with you by providing 7/24 access to the Print Shop

For more information on Avanti’s Print MIS integration with HP’s SmartStream Digital Workflow portfolio, click here: HP SmartStream integration.

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: Automate Your Sales Force & 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

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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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