Problems associated with the absence of centralized content management
Among the many issues related to project management and work projects, the most frequent and the one with the most negative repercussions in workflow management is the difficulty in precise and timely reporting of modifications (both to job or project specifications and to deadlines) during work between one phase of production and another, or between one department and another.
4-Flying solution: 4-Track
4-Track is a "
4-Flying" module that manages prepress, print, and “media-independent” projects and jobs online, with advanced and highly personalizable functionalities for the traceability of work, project reports, and project management.
4-Track advantages
Some of the advantages of this module are:
- qualitative improvement of communication and cooperation levels between the various departments involved in all cycles of production;
- reduction of job management costs;
- automatic creation of highly personalized reports of activities performed under a job or a project;
- highest level of precision in checking data involved in decisional processes;
- development of integrated automation among the functionalities of 4-Track, the system of automatic page creation, and the system of online publication plan management.
But 4-Track’s primary advantage is its ability to reduce the distance between the production process and the management control process, allowing the company to institute economical management, optimization of the production process and reduction of guaranteed times, while at the same time raising the quality level of the final product.