How approvals in Unifize helped us collaborate across organizations and get things turned around faster

The main thing would be it's quicker turnaround times on approval flow. So approvals have been integrated pretty much into every single process.

The features of Unifize allow you to bring in the necessary individuals at the time when they're needed, so you're not bombarding them before it's necessary. But as soon as you need their approval, you can automate the system to where it throws out that message, allows them to come directly to where they need to be, review it and approve it all in one conversation type rather than kind of curling everyone together, corralling them together to get them to get something approved and going to each individual office or emailing them individually.

It's all right there in one system. So it definitely streamlines all approval processes and gets things turned around quicker.

Without the approvals, I feel like we would be starting from scratch every single time we went for a product launch. So relooking at everything all over again to make sure it meets spec and it's qualified for what you want to do, but the approvals in place, you can easily glance at it, say, Yep, we've already inspected that. It's good to go, let's plop it in this formula.

And the beauty of Unifize is it afforded us the opportunity to collaborate across organizations too. So if we'd sourced one material and approved it, our sister company can see that.

They have the same requirements as us. So rather than doing that own investigative work on their end, they can easily see the one that we've used and kind of pull it into their resource guide as well.