Edge Overview
Production and post-production companies continue to evolve to meet the increased business challenges within the industry. Facilities are often forced to re-engineer workflow methodologies and implement solutions that streamline their business process to provide even greater financial visibility. For boutique to mid-size companies, the pressure to choose and implement the best possible solutions is even greater, and is often the difference between success and failure.
For nearly 20 years, ScheduALL has understood and addressed this unique market requirement with Edge. ScheduALL’s familiarity and experience with the mission critical nature of precise planning, timely billing and accurate reporting has best positioned it as the dominant leader within the market.
Edge delivers an unparalleled increase in efficiencies in the scheduling and management of personnel, facilities, and equipment. Edge enables you to run your operation more efficiently and enhance communication between the different facets of your business by creating schedules that are shared throughout the operation. All rate card information for staff, freelancers and equipment usage are kept in Edge ledgers that provide detailed reporting of all production charges. Additionally, the information entered in Edge can be exported to accounting systems, creating a complete beginning-to-end solution.
Edge is a cost-effective, yet powerful solution that allows facilities to minimize duplication of effort, control costs, automate their business, and maximize return on investment. Edge is designed to grow as your business grows and can be seamlessly upgraded to ScheduALL to meet increasing demands of your business.
Features
- Avoid costly scheduling conflicts of rooms, staff, equipment, and other assets.
- Track projects from the quoting process to job scheduling to back-office operation.
- Reduce duplication of effort by connecting different parts of your business.
- Maximize return on assets by minimizing double or under-booking of rooms.
- Reduce overtime and avoid downtime of staff and freelancers.
- Track profitability of your operation.
- Generate reports that will enable a detailed analysis of your business model.
- Manage resource pricing information.
Scheduling Activities
The EDGE Scheduling module speeds decision making by providing warnings if conflicts and double bookings are about to take place. A powerful visual calendar allows you to see at a glance what resources are booked and what time slots are available for new bookings. Activities such as shifts and vacation days for personnel, scheduled maintenance for equipment, and out of service days for rooms are easily tracked. Activities can be categorized and viewed by group or resource. Users can specify start and end dates, and can view and sort by many parameters.
Establishing Rate Cards & Categorization
A fully implemented Edge solution is not just a scheduling tool, but an extremely powerful business management and analysis tool as well. Edge offers financial management capabilities for defining rate cards for all resources. Rate cards reduce the large amount of administrative work required to add or change new, error-free client pricing. Define and categorize resources such as rooms, personnel or equipment, and track stock footage inventory and usage.
Project Manager
Edge Project Manager gathers individual bookings so key information from multiple sessions can be grouped together. This more effectively manages the project scheduling of an entire job.
Invoicing & Reporting
Edge generates invoices from single sessions or an entire job. Make invoicing easy with selectable invoice templates and quick reference list previews of invoices. Export data to external accounting applications.
Detailed Work Order Information
Create work orders by entering a combination of resources, client information, pricing data and more. Entered work orders can serve as a detailed historical record and supply information to calendar views. Sophisticated user-defined rules warn of pending schedule conflicts and other equipment or resource limitations.
Quotes Manager & Client Information
Edge maintains a complete record of existing and prospective clients managing basic contact information, billing rates, discounts, billing terms, quoting history and much more. Edge Quotes Manager allows users to build quotes from pick lists of resources and services, or from user-defined templates to speed-up complex bidding. Edge’s easy-to-use search capabilities allow you to locate quotes quickly and easily.
Asset Library & Label Management
The Edge Library Module organizes tapes and related media materials keeping them quickly accessible. Its detailed database delivers powerful search capabilities.