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What is Propel Software?

Propel (or PropelPLM) headquartered in Santa Clara offers their Product Lifecycle Management application. Built on Salesforce, Propel is available in varying editions supporting quality management, product information management (PIM), as well as project costing, custom objects & API, product specifications, and various collaboration tools.

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Propel eQMS for Medical Device Manufacturer

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Scott Marchand DavisView profile
Director, RA/QA in Quality Assurance at Microline Surgical (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Propel is our core Quality Management System software tool. We use it for engineering and document changes, audits, corrective and preventive actions, supplier management, nonconformances, equipment maintenance and calibration, and regulatory license management.

Pros

  • Reporting and dashboards
  • Customizable workflows
  • Training management

Cons

  • Back-end management of training requirements can be cumbersome
  • Calibration and maintenance could use more automation of recurring requirements

Most Important Features

  • 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance
  • Configurability
  • Easy, efficient reporting
  • Dashboards

Return on Investment

  • Reduction in ECN errors and cycle time
  • Major reduction in time to generate metrics and reports
  • Greater visibility of trouble areas in quality workflows

Alternatives Considered

QT9 QMS, Oracle Fusion Cloud PLM, PTC Windchill, Arena PLM and QMS, ETQ Reliance QMS, Intelex, IQVIA SmartSolve, Qualio and Intellect QMS

Other Software Used

Minitab Statistical Software, Sage 500 ERP

Provides a quality management solution for your business.

Jeffery HansonView profile
Technical Lead in Engineering at Stylemix (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company needed to understand the impact of product changes on our customers, partners, and channels. Through Propel's project management, we can now monitor how changes to our products affect our customers. Moreover, Propel PLM lets us gather ideas from our customers, partners, and employees to capture specific customer requirements when bringing our products to the market.

Pros

  • Offers full PLM capabilities on my mobile phone.
  • Greater flexibility to manage other customer facing processes.
  • Customer service is very fast.

Cons

  • Lack of flexibility with exports and reports.
  • Salesforce has limitations on the page layouts which is not a major issue.

Most Important Features

  • Propel's bill of materials management provides every product detail.
  • Project management and execution.
  • Change and configuration management.

Return on Investment

  • We have been able to track our customer's feedback through Propel and make adjustments, which has led to immense customer satisfaction hence increasing our revenue.
  • Margin increase by 40% because we are able to produce quality products.

Other Software Used

Splunk Cloud, Venn, Glassware

Easy to use, Clean UI

Incentivized
Tanner Ingalls
Data Product Manager & Data Scientist in Product Management at REDX (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as a source of product dashboards for our internal team. Helps our executive team keep up to date with our data analytics and make sure we are on track to hitting our quarterly goals. The nice thing is that it removes some of the technical challenges of our senior leadership and gives them understandable data to help make strategic decisions.

Pros

  • Clean UI
  • Easy to Access
  • User friendly

Cons

  • Customization for development
  • Pricing
  • Some features can be found in other products for cheaper.

Most Important Features

  • Project boards and Organization
  • Clean UI
  • Strong audit history

Return on Investment

  • Allows our devs to solve company specific problems
  • Makes our team look more professional
  • Quick implementation

Alternatives Considered

Wrike, ClickUp, Domo and Streamlit

Other Software Used

Wrike, ClickUp, GitLab

The best of Quality Go for Propel.

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Verified User
Professional in Quality Assurance (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Propel is an excellent tool to be used in a variety of ways which are listed below :
1. Very customizable as it's built on Salesforce.
2. Excellent customer support feature.
3. It's a single-track platform that is a natural fit to harmonize the product in a better way.
4. Electronic OMS system is the best use case that it solved.

Pros

  • OMS electronic system is very useful for the product layout problems and use cases.
  • System is very customizable and user friendly.
  • Rich set of configurable standards that are up to the mark in the current scenario.
  • Customer support is very useful when user gets stuck anywhere.

Cons

  • Some of the platform issues and releases are still there which affect business operations.
  • Reporting option could be made better with Excel or Word.
  • Preview functionality is discouraging and needs to be addressed.

Most Important Features

  • Customer support
  • User friendly interface.
  • cloud based platform with lots of functionalities
  • Salesforce featues

Return on Investment

  • It's a great tool in terms of UI design.
  • Salesforce features in propel are up to the standard mark laid by the industry.
  • Although, it needs a little improvement in preview and collaboration, report generation, and variant management.
  • Overall ROI is very much sufficient from the user prospectives.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Agile PLM and PTC Windchill

Other Software Used

PTC Windchill, Oracle Agile PLM, OpenBOM

Solid PLM and QMS tool

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Customer Service (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Propel is used to manage the product lifecycles in our organization. We set categories for each item so that we can properly autonumber it and then track where it is used in various products across our product offerings. We can also easily identify specific items that can be used as alternates or substitutes so that if we run into any supply chain issues, we can locate additional substitute components to use if we have them available. We can also use Propel for our training needs to ensure that our employees are properly trained on all of the products we offer, any changes that are made to the makeup of those products, annual safety training, etc.

Pros

  • BOM Management
  • Usability
  • Integrations to ERP

Cons

  • Training offerings
  • Easier overall management/configuration
  • More automation between Propel and Salesforce

Most Important Features

  • BOM Management
  • QMS workflows
  • Inside of Salesforce

Return on Investment

  • Faster approvals
  • More efficiency
  • Single source of truth

Other Software Used

Trello, Jira Software, Google Drive

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