Aras Program Management software automates the product development process by providing comprehensive functionality for managing the work being performed along with the deliverables and costs. Status information is always up-to-date and available to drill down to the details and take action from a web browser.
- Define tasks for a specific project and capture ongoing meeting actions as assigned
- Dashboards provide visibility *Receive email alerts for upcoming, delayed, or overdue actions
- Track and manage costs for product development programs
- Make informed decisions based on schedule, cost, and quality
- Real time roll-ups provide up to the minute information
- Product program templates provide consistency
- Phase-based deliverables roll-up to milestones
- Resource planning and progress tracking
- Manage associated documents and files
- Customer status and executive reporting are easy and accurate
- KPI metrics are automatically collected for scorecards & reports
Breakdown product lines by launch dates, revenue contribution
Does the system have the ability to create a folder structure/hierarchy within a project where documents and parts can be organized?
Yes, Innovator can create a folder structure within a Project in order to organize the documents and parts related to that Project into a hierarchy. The standard solution has a single tab for Documents at the Project level, and also a Tab for documents on each Activity in the Project WBS structure. Users of the standard solution are able to check-in a document at the Project level or at the Activity level. It is also possible to create an arbitrary foldering schema under a Project that is not aligned with the WBS and Activity structure. To implement this solution, create a RelationshipType to Null under the Project ItemType with one property named Folder (string). Under the this Relationship Item Type create another relationship to the Document or File Item. This would result in a one-level deep Folder Hierarchy for organizing Documents under a Project. By adding a relationship from the Folder item to itself, the project Folders will now support unlimited levels of Folder hierarchies.
Manage project teams and project status with actionable data.
Create live reports containing critical data elements.
Requirements specific to project level documentation:
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The system shall enable the configuration of a phases and gates structure in which to store predefined document types.
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The system shall be able to organize documentation in multiple hierarchies, such as Business Unit, Sub-Business Unit, Project, and Phase/Gate.
Meets requirement. The Aras Innovator download includes a business ready solution for Program and Project management. This solution is an implementation of Phase-Gate deliverables based program management with full activity scheduling and resource planning, based on the industry standard PMI data model.
The Aras Phase Gate solution allows creation of ad-hoc or business standard WBS hierarchies (work breakdown structure). Within the WBS structure, specific pre-defined document types can be specified as deliverables.
In the standard Aras Innovator solutions, the Document Item is modeled as an "independent itemtype" meaning that Document can be managed from a central repository for check-in/check-out, AND can also be related to any other business object. In the out-of-the-box solutions, the company will see Documents linked to multiple business object hierarchies. The modeling enviornment allows the company to modify this relationship type model as required to meed end-user requirements. By default, the Document relationships are many-to-many, allowing Documents to be re-used (as a pointer) in many different contexts.