Arigo Enhances Trading Partner Collaboration and User Experience with Latest Software Release

Arigo, the leading provider of Visibility, Intelligence, and Collaboration for retailers and brand owners supporting sourcing and global trade management, released their latest version of software, providing a revolutionary user experience and ground-breaking proprietary Enterprise Collaboration technology.

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The release of Version 10.0 is a momentous milestone for Arigo. Enterprise Collaboration reduces rework and production errors that can erode margins for private label manufacturers.

North Billerica, MA (Vocus/PRWEB) December 02, 2010

Arigo has integrated their award-winning suite of Sourcing and Trade Management (STM) solutions with a new portal framework, providing a higher degree of customer personalization with an enhanced overall user experience, to compile the Arigo Desktop. The Arigo Desktop is mobile-ready and can be accessed from any smartphone. Some of the preliminary components of the Arigo Desktop include the STM Workflow and Navigation Portlets.

Arigo STM Version 10.0 enables business customization at the role level. This capability, combined with a robust user administration module, provides various configuration possibilities to ensure the correct level of information and tools are available to each user.

New Features:

Arigo Desktop
The Arigo Desktop facilitates the configuration of transactional data, real-time trading partner data, and relevant industry data all on a single page. This page functions as the "command central" for everything related to the real-time development, sourcing, order, and movement of products in the global supply chain. Components of the Arigo Desktop include, but are not limited to, an Arigo workspace, a Collaboration page, and a page reserved for Third-Party Content on which customers can store relevant links to business-specific applications.

Arigo STM Workflow Portlet
The Workflow portlet enables Arigo users to track production milestones, reports, and exceptions; each of these can be managed and displayed based on queries customized per task. From the Workflow Portlet, users can drill down to a specific record and update as necessary.

Arigo STM Navigation Portlet
The Navigation portlet enables users to access Arigo transactional data from a collapsible, tree-structured menu on the Arigo Desktop.

Arigo Enterprise Collaboration
With Arigo Enterprise Collaboration, users can more efficiently interact with other enabled trading partners, internally and externally, to generate and share a multitude of knowledge from within the Arigo Desktop. These interactions can be attached and archived, enabling users to quickly and easily retrieve information for reference and retag as necessary.

Chat Capabilities
Arigo Enterprise Collaboration supports instant messaging, audio, and video chat sessions and enables the following resources out of the box:

Manage Contacts List
Save and Archive collaboration sessions
Attach sessions to transaction(s) via the Arigo Tagging feature
View session(s) based on permissions (determined by access control)
Access attachments (collaboration sessions) from an STM transaction
Manage access to individual collaboration sessions
Limit collaboration functionality based on roles

Message Boards Portlet
The Arigo Message Boards Portlet enables users to conduct business discussions with other enabled trading partners. With the Message Boards, users are provided with the following functionality out of the box:

Create thread
Reply to/comment on posts
View and read existing threads
Manage permissions for each discussion

“The release of Version 10.0 is a momentous milestone for Arigo. Enterprise Collaboration reduces rework and production errors that can erode margins. For example, our customers can capture an entire interactive design session via audio and video, and attach it to an item, a sample, a purchase order – and they will have a living, breathing representation of the actual session, strengthening accountability and protecting margin,” said Donny Askin, Arigo CEO.

About Arigo
Arigo is the industry leading provider of Visibility, Intelligence, and Collaboration for retailers and brand owners supporting sourcing and global trade management, from pre-production through delivery. Arigo solutions provide robust functionality supporting milestone tracking, sourcing, costing, trading partner collaboration, and logistics, as well as full supplier and product quality assurance and compliance. Arigo solutions help businesses manage critical information across their organizations through an intuitive, one-stop Arigo Desktop, which provides access to all of the data, tools, and trade content needed to support global operations. For over a decade, Arigo has helped customers such as JCPenney, The Home Depot, Staples, RadioShack, Timberland, and many others drive world-class, private label organizations. To learn more about Arigo’s Suite of time-tested, best practice Sourcing and Global Trade Management solutions, please visit http://www.arigo.com.

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