Manufacturing

SharePoint – enabling information sharing and collaboration

In any manufacturing company, efficiency and control are essential – which means enabling project staff to share information and collaborate online, wherever they are.

Now this can be achieved using just one tool - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, a powerful yet easy to use Enterprise Content Management solution that enables manufacturers to maximise efficiency, productivity and communication across their enterprises, whilst ensuring compliance and health and safety standards are met.

SharePoint is a cost-effective, browser-based solution that incorporates document and content management, workflow, collaboration, enterprise search, portals, business forms and integration and business intelligence. It enables manufacturers to capture, store, find and share information in a familiar Microsoft environment.

Benefits

With SharePoint manufacturing organisations can:

  • Store and rapidly retrieve thousands of documents and related content (such as drawings)
  • Improve staff performance because they spend less time looking for information and more time acting on it
  • Attain and maintain compliance and health and safety standards by ensuring 'best practice' methods are followed and audited
  • Increase collaboration between project stakeholders and supply chain partners
  • Enable sharing of information and customer self-service by providing online access to product catalogues and client-specific data
  • Achieve substantial cost savings by reducing printing, mailing and archiving costs while also providing a disaster recovery solution for paper-based information
  • Share internal information including staff handbooks and training material
  • Unlock the knowledge in e-mail systems and network drives by allowing content search and archiving
  • Achieve integration with structured business applications including Finance, HR, CRM, etc
  • Have a central library and classification for all company information