It can manage the workflow process for the review, coordination and approval of the retailer's drawings in accordance with their lease. It becomes a place where retail contractors can obtain plans and specifications for new or renovated stores. The laborious process of preparing bid packages and distributing them to contractors for quotations is streamlined considerably. Such a system allows the retailers to quickly disseminate any new plans or revisions to the contractors no matter where the store is located. Digital cameras allow a retailer's construction field person the flexibility of photographing a pre-construction condition of a store where those photos can be posted on the Web site for use by their personnel or by contractors.
Site surveys become faster to review and more efficient.
Weekly progress views of the site as well as any problems can be quickly uploaded to the Web site for review and analysis. Photos and other documents can be marked up with comments and remedies. Web conferencing tools, such as NetMeeting, can link users in multiple locations and they can simultaneously view drawings, photos, and documents such as a lease to quickly converge on a solution to an issue. ProjectEDGE was designed to simplify these sorts of issues and it does. Past Articles Click on a heading to view the full article.