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often you find yourself looking for:
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.. i18n: * A supplier catalogue that's been sent to a purchasing manager,
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.. i18n: * The final set of Terms and Conditions offered to a specific customer,
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.. i18n: * The documents required for employing a new member of staff,
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.. i18n: * An order confirmation sent by a customer to one of your salespeople or, perhaps even more common
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.. i18n: when the relevant salesperson has gone on vacation, if you ever received such an order confirmation,
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.. i18n: * A procedure from your quality manual if there's been a process fault,
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.. i18n: * An email which was sent to one of your colleagues,
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.. i18n: * A document that you need to be a template for a specific type of contract,
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.. i18n: * A complete history of communications between yourselves and a supplier about a given contract.
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* A supplier catalogue that's been sent to a purchasing manager,
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* A customer contract signed several months ago,
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* The final set of Terms and Conditions offered to a specific customer,
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* The documents required for employing a new member of staff,
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* An order confirmation sent by a customer to one of your salespeople or, perhaps even more common
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when the relevant salesperson has gone on vacation, if you ever received such an order confirmation,
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* A procedure from your quality manual if there's been a process fault,
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* An email which was sent to one of your colleagues,
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* A document that you need to be a template for a specific type of contract,
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* A complete history of communications between yourselves and a supplier about a given contract.
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* A complete history of communications between yourselves and a supplier about a given contract.
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.. i18n: Even worse than the loss of time, perhaps, the lack of good document management is bad for the
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.. i18n: * sets of documents don't follow a standard layout,
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.. i18n: * all the salespeople prepare quotations in their own way and gradually change the way they do it
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.. i18n: for themselves but not for the group,
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.. i18n: * a correction to a type of contract stays with a small group of people and doesn't percolate back
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.. i18n: * version management is chaotic or even non-existent.
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* sets of documents don't follow a standard layout,
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* all the salespeople prepare quotations in their own way and gradually change the way they do it
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for themselves but not for the group,
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* a correction to a type of contract stays with a small group of people and doesn't percolate back
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into the rest of the company to benefit other users,
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* version management is chaotic or even non-existent.
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* version management is chaotic or even non-existent.
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.. i18n: So a good integrated document management system can be a powerful tool to help in day-to-day company
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management. With it you could also easily:
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.. i18n: * Continue the work started by a colleague if she's gone on vacation, and respond to her customers
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.. i18n: standards in such areas as order confirmation, price requests, meeting minutes, customer
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.. i18n: * Retrieve procedures and other associated documents if you don't know how to do a certain task –
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.. i18n: such as things you should do when hiring a new employee, organizing a conference, or how to
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.. i18n: structure meeting minutes,
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.. i18n: * Very easily reuse work done by a colleague to meet similar needs and build on all the individual
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.. i18n: work done in your own company,
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.. i18n: * Find all the orders for a customer or from a supplier in just a few seconds to answer questions or
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.. i18n: two continue a discussion when the initial contact point in your company is not available,
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.. i18n: * Build on your working methods and enable your colleagues to benefit from each improvement in a
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* Continue the work started by a colleague if she's gone on vacation, and respond to her customers
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* Get hold of examples of all document types with just a few clicks, so that you can follow company
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standards in such areas as order confirmation, price requests, meeting minutes, customer
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deliverables, contract examples, and models for faxes and letters,
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* Retrieve procedures and other associated documents if you don't know how to do a certain task –
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such as things you should do when hiring a new employee, organizing a conference, or how to
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structure meeting minutes,
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* Very easily reuse work done by a colleague to meet similar needs and build on all the individual
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work done in your own company,
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* Find all the orders for a customer or from a supplier in just a few seconds to answer questions or
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two continue a discussion when the initial contact point in your company is not available,
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* Build on your working methods and enable your colleagues to benefit from each improvement in a
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document type or a procedure.
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document type or a procedure.