Arena Solutions
Updated January 21, 2020
Arena Solutions
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Arena
I set up Arena so that we have a centralized area to store and control documents for quality documents, drawings, operation documents, and supplier information. It is currently being used across the whole organization (R&D, operations, quality, and supply chain). The business problem that it addresses is keeping documents updated and aligned. There is only 1 current document and approved document. Any other document is not valid unless uploaded and approved in Arena. Also, for supply chain, the item master is very useful in controlling Bill of Materials for each product when set up correctly. Data can easily be exported and reviewed.
- BOM control
- Controlling approved documents to make sure everyone uses the most current approved file.
- Quality control
- Data Export
- Takes a long time to set up.
- Must enter BOM in 1 item at a time.
- Don't have full control. Must use Arena support to control back end.
- For new product development, keeping drawings up to date and file sharing.
- Supplier information and cost roll up.
- BOM control.
- Product Features
- Analyst Reports
Product features allow fast searches for drawings and other documents.
It takes a while to implement and upload each file one at a time. You have to enter in each BOM item, upload each file, and type in each supplier detail separately.
Arena has been faster IMO and creating BOM structure was easier. It's slow at first when setting it up, but once the structure is set up, anyone can upload files.