What is Artwork? Artwork is a simplified collaboration platform for managing artworks in the most effective manner, reducing turnaround time and minimizing the possibility of mistakes. Why Artwork? KLD preparation to print proofing Reminders & escalations Approval management Version management Artwork for industries 1. Pharmaceutical Industries 2. Manufacturing Industries 3. Engineering Industries 4. Healthcare Industries 5. FMCG Key Features : 1. Approval workflows - Customized workflows and approval matrices for all artworks to gain instant visibility of all user tasks, keeping them on track. 2. Collaboration & Proofing tools - Compare the digital versions of artwork and eliminate errors in printed packaging and product recalls. 3. Integrations - Integrate it with legacy systems without any hassle. 4. Repository - The central repository for all the artworks including past versions. Search for anything instantly. 5. Reports and Analytics - Get visibility across the platform with progress reports and get the artwork created in lesser time. Benefits 1. Mobile & web-based approval & process information 2. Collaboration of all stakeholders on a single platform 3. Live tracking of all artwork processes 4. Elimination of human errors 5. Access to the latest, approved artworks 6. Automated reminders & escalations

1. Checklist for
Artwork Management Software
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2. ● Artwork is a simplified collaboration platform for managing artworks in
the most effective manner, reducing turnaround time and minimizing the
possibility of mistakes.
● Artwork detects minute differences that human eyes can surpass
resulting in error-free proofreading.
● Clients use artwork to bring order to the chaos of preparing new
artworks & modifying existing artworks across stakeholders group and
also involving vendors & printers onto a central communication platform.

3. Checklist for Artwork Management Software
When choosing a solution that is right for you, you must prepare a checklist of
features required for your team, according to priority. With software, one size
does not always fit all.
1. A lightweight, versatile solution
2. Approval workflow features
3. Annotate & Proofreading Features
4. Compliance to Standards

4. ● A good Artwork Management solution must be easy to adopt, configure
& deploy.
● An optimal solution will be Cloud-based, and can be consumed in a
plug-and-play model.
● Discus Artwork Manager takes into account typical challenges faced
with Enterprise Software and offers an off-the-shelf, Cloud-based
solution built on a versatile platform.
● The versatile platform, Kriya, offers clients hundreds of out-of-the-box
features for configuring Artwork processes, also host a full Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for your organization.
1. A lightweight, versatile solution

5. 2. Approval workflow features
You need an effective solution that allows for authorization, accountability,
traceability & auditability of the work done across all workflows. For this, you
should look at the below features.
● A web-based solution
● Easily integrates your existing systems
● Multiple Customizable workflows
● Faster Online approvals for both serial and parallel approvals
● Vendor Portal for Printers
● Dynamic dashboards
● Checklists
● Audit trail

6. A web-based solution:- all data is stored in a Cloud based or central
server. This ensures only one version of all data exists, regardless of who
is accessing the system, and when.
Easily integrates your existing systems:- You already have an ERP
where you track item codes. Artwork has its associated asset codes &
cost centers.
Multiple Customizable workflows:- Each aspect of work will require its
own workflow - choose a system that allows easy configuration of
workflows. Preferably, without specialist and/or programmer help.

7. Faster Online approvals for both serial and parallel approvals:- Some
workflows are built linearly. Some need to branch out to multiple
stakeholders parallelly and eventually the outcomes need to merge.
Vendor Portal for Printers:-This gives the additional benefits of
transparency & key metric tracking such as deadlines, turn around times
(TATs), etc.

8. Dynamic dashboards:- A dynamic dashboard solution allows you to
configure the system as per your needs. What’s more, each user can
configure their dashboards and track the data that is important to them.
Checklists:- Multiple steps of the Workflow should have the ability to
define checklists, to ensure nothing goes amiss.
Audit trail:- An audit trail provides accountability of actions performed on
the system. Essentially, it covers ‘who did what, when’.

9. 3. Annotate & Proofreading Features
An effective proofreading solution should have the following
mandatory features.
● Automatic comparison algorithms
● On-screen comments
● Web-based access
● Multiple comparison modes
● Color comparison
● Document comparison
● Barcode reader

10. Automatic comparison algorithms:- The proofreading solution should
have algorithms that can automatically scan images & highlight all
differences that are found, allowing the proofreader to jump straight into
acceptance or comment mode.
On-screen comments:- Allow on-screen comments, and what’s more,
also allow communication - chats & resolution - on the comparison itself.
Web-based access:- allows your comments and reports to be hosted in a
central environment.
Barcode reader:- Barcodes are created to make it easier for machines to
read information (as compared to Optical Content Recognition).

11. Multiple comparison modes:- Not all images are made equal, and some
modes of comparison work better than others depending on some factors of
the image - such as color shades of the image, the amount of text
information on the image, etc.
Color comparison:- For comparing with scanned images, standardizing
your scanner model & sensor, and allowing for a tolerance percentage (of
color distance) can give you reasonably accurate results.
Document comparison:- An effective proofreader will highlight missing
characters or words or lines; misplaced or misaligned images; and even
misplaced or missing whitespace.

12. ● Compliance to standards such as GAMP’s CFR 21 Part 11 - at a
minimum - guarantee that the solution will be developed in line with best
practices.
● Artwork is considered to directly impact consumer safety, and hence the
tools used to prepare Artwork would fall under scrutiny by regulatory
bodies.
● In such cases, the Artwork Management Solution will need to be
validated
4. Compliance to Standards

13. Discus Artwork Manager is a GAMP category 4 product. This
allows for a smooth installation & prompt validation of the
solution - reducing the time to go-live.

14. Benefits
● Mobile & web-based approval & process information
● Collaboration of all stakeholders on a single platform
● Live tracking of all artwork processes
● Elimination of human errors
● Access to the latest, approved artworks
● Automated reminders & escalations

15. Reference Links
1. https://blog.discus.solutions/articles/5-mistakes-fmcg-companies-make-
when-developing-artwork-and-how-to-resolve-them-part-ii
2. https://discus.solutions/artwork-management
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3giam8grqIE&feature=emb_logo
4. https://blog.discus.solutions/articles/5-mistakes-fmcg-companies-make-
when-developing-artwork--part-i

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