St. Louis, Missouri -- October 24, 2000:
Specialty Brands, Inc., a
leading manufacturer and marketer of fully prepared contemporary and traditional foods,
has chosen Advanced Software Designs’ flagship software, ProductVision Formula
Management for site-wide implementation.
ProductVision is a
full suite of formula management software modules integrated for an optimal product
development system. ProductVision’s Formula Management (FM) Module provides the
foundation for the most powerful and versatile formula development, costing, and
laboratory analysis tools available, all in a Windows, client/server environment.
ProductVision offers a central data repository, approval routing, and workflow
functionality for a superlative enterprise-wide operation product development environment.
California-based
Specialty Brands Inc. has also licensed ProductVision Nutrition Labeling, Nutrition
Database, Approval Routing, Full Audit Tracking, and Data Integration Modules.
After reviewing several competitor products, Specialty choose ProductVision’s suite
of modules because of the superior value and its true workflow features.
“Advanced
Software Designs presented us with a product that showed us true value. An internal
team was set up to review potential software solutions. We chose ProductVision
because it incorporated all the features we needed and wanted, while allowing us to
implement quickly,” said Karen Brennan, Regulatory Manager for Specialty Brands Inc.
At the top of the
list for Specialty was the ability to track the approval process for formulas.
Advanced Software Designs’ latest version, ProductVision 3.0, included an approval
workflow module. This allows users to define approval routes for both raw materials
and finished products. Using e-mail, all participants in the approval process are
actively involved, speeding the product development process.
Ms. Brennan
continued, “ASD added a powerful workflow feature to their product, which was exactly
what we were looking for. We are confident that if we had had ProductVision sooner
we would have been able to launch our new product line three to four months earlier than
we did. With ASD’s software, we can now optimally development our products for
faster time to market.”
Ted
Pliakos, VP
Sales for Advanced Software Designs, stated, “Specialty Brands found a solution in
ProductVision that met with their requirements and gave them value-added features that are
integral to the way they do business."
Specialty Brands joins an extensive list of manufacturing companies that utilize the
ProductVision Product Development System.
About
Specialty Brands Inc.
Specialty Brands is
a manufacturer and marketer of fully prepared contemporary and traditional foods.
Leaders in the most exciting growth categories in the food industry, their products
include Fred’s, Posada, Rotanelli’s, Butcher Boy, Little Juan, Pacific Tortilla
Kitchen and Marquez. They provide products through restaurants, foodservice distributors,
club stores, convenience stores and retail supermarkets.
About Advanced Software Designs
ASD exemplifies its commitment to
world-class integrated product development software solutions through its integrations at
various mid- to large-size, leading-edge global and domestic companies. ASD serves
the food and beverage, cosmetic, paint and coatings, chemical, and ink vertical markets.
Advanced Software Designs has been serving
the batch process manufacturing industries for two decades. Headquartered in St.
Louis, MO, ASD offers total product development software solutions.
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ProductVision® is a trademark of Advanced
Software Designs.
Contact:
Ted Pliakos
Advanced Software Designs
636.532.6021 PHONE
636.532.2935 FAX |
