Recognizing that technology forms the backbone of effective enterprise document management and print supply chain management, PathForward has brought together industry-leading technologies to support our clients.

SMARTworks®, A Platform for Success
Our Web-based SMARTworks® platform provides a powerful suite of e-business applications that gives organizations the means to more efficiently source, manage and control documents — both printed and electronic documents, whether internally or externally sourced. It streamlines procedures associated with designing, procuring, distributing and managing documents throughout the enterprise, helping to reduce costs while improving
agility.

Electronic Job Submission
SMARTworks makes job submission simple. Associates across your organization – at headquarters or in the field — can submit print requests electronically in a PDF format. A natural extension of the way they work, this simple process encourages users to direct their print jobs to the optimal printing source and reduce maverick spending.

Least-Cost Printing
In addition to the savings derived from process improvements, SMARTworks e-procurement and print management solutions also help clients reduce costs by directing printing to preferred vendors at negotiated rates. Moreover, with SMARTworks least-cost print functionality, you can be sure print jobs are sent to the most cost-effective, appropriate supplier, based on job requirements and your pre-defined set of rules. Greater volume can easily be driven to select vendors or internal print centers with clear and simple Web ordering company-wide.

Used by an estimated 67,000 people in more than 1,500 customer and supplier organizations, this robust technology also provides clients the capability to: manage brand standards and regulatory requirements and create highly personalized communications to drive revenue and improve the customer experience.

SMARTworks® Fleet Management Toolset
An important component of our technology platform is the SMARTworks fleet management toolset. Designed to optimize use of networked and locally-attached print output devices across your enterprise, it helps you to proactively manage printing assets and supplies by providing full visibility to their use by job, user and device. By continuously auditing and analyzing use, it exposes your true costs and allows you to influence user behavior. At the same time, it polices the introduction of any unapproved printing devices and helps you to deter maverick spending. In short, it‘s a powerful toolset that helps your organization to print smart – without placing significant demands on your network and IT resources.

Commercial Print Exchange™, Simplified Sourcing
Another key part of SMARTworks e-procurement application is the Commercial Print Exchange™. It streamlines the sourcing process, giving you the means to secure bids as well as place and track orders from the Global Network of certified suppliers — yours and ours. Integrated with our Doculytics software, it provides you with comprehensive reporting and scorecards for buyers and suppliers to provide you with an objective view of printing expenditures and vendor performance.

Doculytics™, Online Decision Support
Committed to the belief that you can’t manage what you can’t measure, we have integrated our proprietary Doculytics process control software with the SMARTworks platform. It provides real-time data to enable your organization to visualize and control operations at a high level – much like a factory console. With this proactive process management tool, you can:

• Provide timely, online decision support to top managers
• Anticipate and solve problems with easily understood models
• Create forward-looking simulations from the current situation
• Monitor and manage supplier performance

Learn more about the extensive reporting that helps you exert greater control over document costs and vendor performance now. Or, contact us now to discuss your document management challenges.