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Spectra's production feature allows you to track the status of the various “jobs” going on within a studio at any time. The Production hub and Production Status reports are great ways to learn the status of any particular order or to get an overview of your studio’s performance. It’s frighteningly easy to allow an aspect of a job to slip off your radar screen, ending up costing you time, frustration, and possibly customer dissatisfaction. Now you can make sure that you’re not falling behind, that jobs aren’t slipping through the cracks, that you’re not missing an important deadline, and that your vendors are delivering timely service.
Spectra's production orders have been designed to help you prepare and process your digital orders. Features include integration with Photoshop, the ability to create archive CD/DVDs, as well as multiple methods for you to get your orders to the lab (CD/DVD or FTP).
The "Post-Session Production Tracking" section of this chapter will guide you through the first step in using Spectra's production tracking features – setting up the various steps/stages that each of your “jobs” must go through in order to reach completion.
Spectra allows you to customize all aspects of your post-session production process. Post-session procedures are optional; you can choose to use only those that are of benefit to you. The three areas of post-session production setup are:
For each of these, take time to answer the question, “What step (or steps) do my sessions need to go through?” In each area of post-session production (session, proof, production), you will define the steps that make up the cycle and the amount of time each step takes. By using Spectra's status triggers, phone calls, emails, and/or SMS text messages can be automatically generated for any step you choose. Status reports are also available for each step in a process.
The "Proof Orders" and "Production Orders" sections
of the chapter will go on to describe proof and production orders in greater
detail.
Spectra also allows you to create proof and production orders based on your sessions and invoices. See the “Working with Proof Orders” and “Working with Production Orders” chapters for more information.
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Here are some important definitions: Proof Order - A proof order is used to record film being sent to the lab for processing and proofs being returned to your studio. Proof orders are created from the session record. Production Order - A production order is used to order prints from the lab or other products from your vendors. Where an invoice is used to record your customer’s order with you, production orders are used to record the orders you place with your labs/vendors to fulfill your customer’s order. A single invoice may contain several production orders according to the number of vendors needed to fulfill the customer’s order. |
