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Specialty Brands Inc. Chooses ProductVision® by Advanced Software Designs
November 15, 2000
ProductVision is a full suite of formula management software modules integrated for an optimal product development system. ProductVision's Formula Management (FM) Module provides the foundation for the most powerful and versatile formula development, costing, and laboratory analysis tools available, all in a Windows, client/server environment. ProductVision offers a central data repository, approval routing, and workflow functionality for a superlative enterprise-wide operation product development environment.
California-based Specialty Brands Inc. has also licensed ProductVision Nutrition Labeling, Nutrition Database, Approval Routing, Full Audit Tracking, and Data Integration Modules. After reviewing several competitor products, Specialty choose ProductVision's suite of modules because of the superior value and its true workflow features.
"Advanced Software Designs presented us with a product that showed us true value. An internal team was set up to review potential software solutions. We chose ProductVision because it incorporated all the features we needed and wanted, while allowing us to implement quickly," said Karen Brennan, Regulatory Manager for Specialty Brands Inc.
At the top of the list for Specialty was the ability to track the approval process for formulas. Advanced Software Designs' latest version, ProductVision 3.0, included an approval workflow module. This allows users to define approval routes for both raw materials and finished products. Using e-mail, all participants in the approval process are actively involved, speeding the product development process.
Ms. Brennan continued, "ASD added a powerful workflow feature to their product, which was exactly what we were looking for. We are confident that if we had had ProductVision sooner we would have been able to launch our new product line three to four months earlier than we did. With ASD's software, we can now optimally development our products for faster time to market."
Ted Pliakos, VP Sales for Advanced Software Designs, stated, "Specialty Brands found a solution in ProductVision that met with their requirements and gave them value-added features that are integral to the way they do business."
Specialty Brands Inc. joins a extensive list of process manufacturers that utilize the ProductVision Formula Management system, including such companies as Pepsi-Cola, Cadbury Beverages, Dreyers Ice Cream, Vlasic Foods, and Tropicana.
