Propel Features

Quality Management (4)

Quality System (4)

Analytics & Reporting: Collects both vendor- and customer-facing data relevant to the product development lifecycle, and generates performance and health reports
Real-time Collaboration: Enables real-time collaboration like automated notifications and rich editing and commenting capabilities to minimize miscommunication
Document Control: Automates, centralizes, and archives documents and forms to create a single source of truth
Quality Processes: Automates and manages processes like CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) to monitor quality and complaints and promote transparency

Data Management (7)

Collection: Collects and consolidates product data from multiple sources like software and documents. This feature was mentioned in 14 Propel reviews.
Cleansing: As reported in 11 Propel reviews. Provides features to clean product data to void duplicate information and inconsistencies.
Classification: Allows users to classify product data and content using standard or custom taxonomies. 12 reviewers of Propel have provided feedback on this feature.
Access Rights: Define which users have access to the different modules of the software and how. This feature was mentioned in 11 Propel reviews.
Versioning: Track versions of documents and digital files and maintain an audit trail of the changes. 13 reviewers of Propel have provided feedback on this feature.
Publication: Approval processes to make product data and documents available internally and externally.
Digital Assets: Maintain a repository of digital files such as documents, videos, or 3D visualizations.

Optimization (3)

Data Quality: Based on 12 Propel reviews. Monitor the quality of the product information to ensure it's not outdated or inaccurate.
Workflows: Deliver workflows to define what type of product information needs to be optimized, by whom, and when. This feature was mentioned in 11 Propel reviews.
Localization: Provide localized product information such as description in multiple languages and prices in multiple currencies.

Analytics (6)

Compliance: Monitor compliance with regulations, internal policies, and identify violations such as MAP (Minimum Advertised Price).
KPIs: Include KPIs to track the performance of the product content and data, such as ROI of product data.
Performance: Identify the most performant content and the types of content that can be improved or eliminated.
Reporting: Based on 31 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with the ability to report progress made throughout the product lifecycle.
Costing: Based on 28 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Track product costs and costs related to design and development activities
Product Intelligence: Based on 28 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide insights into product performance from multiple data sources

Nonconformance (3)

Conformance Records: Based on 28 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to create, track and maintain accurate, auditable conformance records.
CAPA: Based on 26 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to assign tasks for corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to employees in nonconformance
Change Management: Based on 33 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to submit change requests and control plan revisions at any point in the production process and track all revisions.

Quality system (3)

Document Control: Based on 33 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allow users to centralize and archive documents for quality management
Collaboration: Based on 29 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to collaborate in real time with editing and commenting capabilities to minimize miscommunication
Analytics and Reports: Based on 27 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to collects both vendor- and customer-facing data relevant to the product development lifecycle, and generates performance and health reports

Risk Management (2)

Inspection Management (3)

Templates: Based on 24 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to choose from templates for multiple types of inspections such as safety or quality
Workflows: Based on 29 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides users with workflows to assign tasks for audit and inspections
Corrective Actions: Based on 24 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to identify corrective actions to address incidents and accidents

Compliance (3)

Standards & Regulations: Based on 20 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides users with regulations to follow under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
Permits: Based on 17 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to track permits required for environmental and safety compliance
Certifications: Based on 21 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to manage certifications to comply with regulations and standards

Platform (4)

Integration: Based on 22 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Delivers APIs and standard integrations with other software systems.
Security & Privacy: Based on 22 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Complies with security and privacy regulations and standards.
Mobile Access: Based on 19 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to access the software using mobile devices.
Flexibility: Based on 23 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Facilitates software configuration without the need for technical experise.

Services (4)

Implementation: Based on 22 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Assists customes through all the phases of the implementation process.
Training & Learning: Based on 25 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provides software users with training courses and learning content.
Customer Support: Based on 26 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Delivers customer and technical support, directly or trough partners.
Professional Services: Based on 24 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. The vendor provides consulting services such as business process reengineering.

New Product Introduction (4)

Ideation: Based on 30 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Gather and analyse ideas for new products or product enhancements
Time-to-market: Based on 30 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Calculate the time to market for new products or improvements to existing products
Cost estimating: Based on 30 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with cost estimation tools for new products or enhancements
Product approval: Based on 34 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Deliver workflows that can be used by managers to approve or reject new products and features

CAD (3)

Collaboration (4)

Supplier alignment: Based on 32 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows users to colalborate with suppliers and partners on product development projects
Communication: Based on 33 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Include features such as chat that internal and external users can use to communicate
Development: Based on 32 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Helps users and suppliers or partners colalborate on product development activities
Document Management: Based on 34 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows user to collaborate on creating and managing documents and files

Product Data Management (3)

Product Metadata: Based on 33 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Define and manage a taxonomy of product metadata that applies to the entire company
Data Quality: Based on 32 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Manages the quality of the product data and ensures its up to date
Version Control: Based on 34 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Tracks and audits versions and changes, including options to check-in and check-out

Bill of Materials (4)

BOM management: Based on 33 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide the ability to deliver product variations such as configure-to-order and engineer-to-order
Multi-level BOM: Based on 31 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Bills of materials can be combined, merged, and nested to create multi-level BOMs
BOM Types: Based on 30 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Manages BOM types such as manufacturing BOM (mBOM) or engineering BOM (eBOM)
BOM visualization: Based on 32 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with the ability to visualize the BOM in a 3D environment.

Engineering Change Management (3)

ECR Workflows: Based on 30 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Deliver workflows to approve or reject engineering change requests (ECR)
Change Management: Based on 33 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows user to manage changes to product configurations while maintaining the functional and physical attributes of a product throughout its lifecycle.
ECO Management: Based on 33 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Create and manage engineering change orders (ECO) based on ECRs or from scratch

Simulation (3)

Virtual Testing: Based on 31 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Users can create virtual environments to test product characteristics
Analysis: Based on 30 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Analyse multiple simulations to determine product strenghts and weaknesses
Optimization: Based on 30 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Simulation results can be used to improve product design and development

Quality management (3)

Quality planning: Based on 32 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Provide users with the ability to identify all functional needs of the product ahead of time and incorporate this information into each stage in the product development lifecycle
Traceability: Based on 31 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Ensures that all quality issues can be traced back to the root causes
Compliance: Based on 29 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Ensures compliance of items according to regulatory, safety, and environmental specifications

Integration (4)

ERP: Based on 33 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with manufacturing ERP solutions
MES: As reported in 27 Propel reviews. Integrates with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
PIM: Based on 27 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with Product Information Management (PIM) software
Maintenance: Based on 27 Propel reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Integrates with software for maintenance such as Enterprise Resource Management (EAM)