by Carl Mueller | Jul 13, 2020 | Document Control
Having a structured numbering convention is a critical piece of successful document control. In many supply contracts, suppliers are asked to provide their own number, but also to pre-number the customer’s number field based on a defined convention. DocBoss users can... by Carl Mueller | Jul 9, 2020 | Product News
Many of our customer have sub-vendors who also supply documents. Instead of receiving everything by email, let your vendors upload their documents directly into DocBoss. They drag each document to the waiting register, track what’s missing, report on timelines, and... by Carl Mueller | Jul 6, 2020 | News and Events
MarketResearch.Biz has produced a new report analyzing the global oil & gas pumps market to the year 2027. Titled “Global Oil & Gas Pumps Market Analysis, Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities, Threats, Trends, Applications, And Growth Forecast To... by Carl Mueller | Jul 4, 2020 | Tips
Of course, not every vendor is skilled at document control. Whether they provide you a list of documents (fabrication vendors), or you help them by auto-generating the full list of required docs (instrument & valves vendors) DocBoss helps you track missing... by Carl Mueller | Jun 25, 2020 | Document Control
One of the more frustrating aspects of document control involves the manual nature of the work. In our recent Supplier vs EPC survey, we discovered that the single most important factor to EPC respondents is accuracy and formatting of the data they receive. One aspect... by Carl Mueller | Jun 22, 2020 | Tips
When submitting many documents and many pages, it is often beneficial to add headers and footers to every submitted page. While working on each individual document can be extremely time-consuming (and error prone) DocBoss allows you to simple define what data fields... by Carl Mueller | Jun 17, 2020 | Document Control
How can the EPCs that you serve provide better information to you up front before the start of a project? EPCs should take more care to trim vendor data requirement lists (VDRL), prior to inclusion in RFPs. Supplier experience sees irrelevant document requirements... by Carl Mueller | Jun 12, 2020 | Document Control
In some industries, it’s a passive component at the end of a job. For others it’s a key deliverable. If you are a manufacturer of process equipment, creating, managing and submitting documentation consumes an inordinate amount of time. The manufacturing... by Carl Mueller | Jun 8, 2020 | Tips
A lack of proper execution leads directly to more stringent submission requirements on the next project. It is our assumption that formal procedures are not common at supplier organizations. We suggest suppliers need to put more focus on building formal document... by Carl Mueller | Jun 5, 2020 | Document Control
In our experience, companies have differing views on documentation depending on their customers’ requirements and how much documentation they are required to provide at the end of projects. Our document control survey showed that EPCs don’t choose suppliers...
