Wrike for Project Management and Design Approval.

Our organization uses Wrike in a couple of ways: (1) Create and manage timelines with cross-functional teams (e.g., supply chain, sourcing, demand planning, production, sales, marketing, formulation, packaging, finance/pricing); It is helpful in creating dependencies and assigning owners. We revisit weekly to update dates and identify critical path items. At the beginning of the project, we focus primarily on milestones and continue to add tasks as the project progresses (2) Route designs for approval with Regulatory, Legal, Formulation, and Business Owners. We receive PDFs and then route them to the various owners for feedback. They can upload comments directly into the PDF and also indicate their approval, e.g., reject, pending changes, or approved. It is helpful for each person to see other's comments to make sure everyone is tracking the updates that will be made. Wrike also allows us to resolve the comments, so you feel good that the next round of revisions will address the multiple comments. Once you receive an updated PDF incorporating the feedback from the first round, Wrike will allow you to upload a revision and route it for approval. In this way, the reviewers are easily able to compare the two documents and see changes. This helps expedite the review process and minimize back-and-forth changes.

I have seen these AI and automation features in our design tasks, and they have not been helpful. Sometimes, it says that the approval is complete when it is, in fact, not. I'm not sure it adds anything, as it is already very easy to see the approval status with the Wrike features. Perhaps the automation features can create an agenda for a team meeting or give each member a to-do list every week. These are just some initial ideas on what I do with the information in Wrike periodically that might be able to automate.