Overview

Dear Convergence users,

Long time no see !

2017 has been a busy year to deliver you some great new features into Convergence helping you to work in a more efficient and collaborative way.

This December 2017 release note covers all the user stories from Sprints 11 to 17.

As told, it has been quite some work to correct marginal bugs lurking around and mainly to bring new features to the application.

Hereafter is a summary of the main features delivered to you since last April.

For the most brave of you all, you will find attached to this note a spreadsheet collecting all the features implemented since then.

 

 

Table of content

Main features

 

  • Contract Workspaces

    • Replace the Ariba application so anything is gathered in Convergence
    • Allow you to manage all your contracts and…
    • …Work on them in a collaborative and fluid way
    • Attach related files and make them private, public or share them only with specific people
    • Find contracts in an easy way with a dedicated Search Tool
    • Generate PDF document in one click
    • …

  •  View 360
    • allows to see all the objects – Contacts, Visit Munites, Contracts, … - linked through related list to a supplier account and all the accounts of the hierarchy to which it belongs
    • can be exported to an MS Excel sheet

  • Value Creation

    • Successfully replaced SATT
    • Allows you to manage you actions and benefits related to those
    • Create your benefits straight from the action
    • Your controller is notified once your action is implemented
    • Status flags to follow in a more accurate way your actions
    • Clone your actions
    • …

 

  • Strategies

    • Are manageable through a dedicated tab
    • A new Strategy is created automatically six months before the expiration date of the current one. A notification is sent to the Strategy Process Owner.
    • Can be assigned to a Global Manager so that he can execute the next steps (update Strategy Team, upload .ppt file ...)
    • Can be set as “Private”
    • Reports are available to help your reporting and forecasting tasks
    • …

 

  • Suppliers

    • You are now able to create prospects and additional suppliers on your own
    • You can now enter additional qualifications on suppliers account properties (i.e. “Dangerous Goods Transporter”, etc. …)

All features

Download the spreadsheet for better reading

 

 

 

 

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