Loftware’s configurable and automated Smartflow Artwork Management software lowers costs, reduces mistakes, improves collaboration and reduces time to market. Smartflow transforms project management, streamlining the packaging concept to shelf process by bringing accountability and structure to the process. Loftware’s comprehensive Smartflow platform enables you to manage packaging artwork and the end-to-end business processes, mitigating risk, improving control, compliance, traceability and reducing the overall complexity of the artwork management process.
Automate and streamline packaging management processes throughout your organization, enabling stakeholders to gain access to easily track and manage packaging artwork approvals and new product development smarter, faster and more efficiently. Smartflow’s configurable and scalable workflow framework offers an alternative to timely and costly manual processes, which include spreadsheets and email routing. Smartflow automates critical paths with real time intelligent workflows and clearly identifies projects which are behind schedule or at risk of running late, enabling you to take proactive corrective action and eliminate bottlenecks, improve time to market and ensure compliance.
Smartflow enables you to break out master projects into an unlimited amount of smaller
Smartflow’s phrase management enables you to create a library of common, unlimited phrases and statements, which can then quickly and easily be translated into any number of languages. Create a single source for pre-approved phrase and translation content to integrate with your Smartflow projects to drive packaging consistency and compliance while reducing the time and cost associated with the translation process.
Eliminate the need to always go searching for the most current image,
Estimate and track actual time and cost allocation ahead of initiation and throughout each stage of your packaging development lifecycle. Real-time tracking enables you to drive time and cost efficiencies throughout the project and a full audit history of performance allows you identify training requirements and improve packaging design processes.
Smartflow helps you go from chaos to calm by offering a user-friendly collaborative alternative to Excel enabling you to convert a spreadsheet from a static to a dynamic working platform. Providing the ability to store and control any type of content, you can make comments, amends and have discussions while automatically providing full tracking and visibility of all changes to reduce content approval times and get
Gain unparalleled insight with Smartflow’s business intelligence which offers immediate access to your data from your workflow processes. Smartflow offers configurable tabular reporting within the dashboard so you can identify process efficiencies, manage resources, pinpoint bottlenecks and accurately measure productivity. With top line through to detailed trend reporting, Smartflow allows you to produce day to day, management and KPI reporting.
Smartflow will automatically keep a permanent record of all approval points, status, dates and users associated with the critical path. Instant audit of all actions, comments and status with a name, time and date stamp ensures accountability and enables you to track regulatory and process compliance which is vital for validated environments and for those that require 21 CFR 11 compliance.
Streamline review and approval processes and reduce time to market by circulating artwork, image and video content to internal and external stakeholders for online artwork approval with no third-party software or
Gain insight of your packaging artwork processes with powerful analytical reports and dashboards that help you identify and trends and track key metrics within Smartflow. Smartflow Business Intelligence offers both high level and granular visibility of project and task performance. Smartflow’s user-friendly web-based interface allows you to interact with the trend data presented in the dashboard reports by drilling down for more details, adding or removing filters, changing timeframes on a report and more.
Effectively manage artwork versions with the ability to compare different versions of artwork and highlight changes with Smartflow’s Compare Toolkit . Smartflow automatically compares files down to the pixel level to showcase any text or graphical changes between all versions. You can toggle between the differences on the compared files or only view changes displayed in bright green allowing you to ensure only the requested changes have been made.
