Propel Reviews

Propel does just that. It "propels" the work you do by streamlining items in one system. It provides for easily accessed design reviews, change order management, and it integrates with Salesforce platform which is very useful if your company uses Salesforce.

It is somewhat reliant on Salesforce, and overall it has the ability to maximize tools but takes some training to understand.

I think Propel is a great product. I like the ease of use, BOM layout, ECO process, and customizability.

The Customer Success team is FANTATIC! They go above and beyond to help us at every turn.

The export of the BOMs needs some refinement, the ability to have Revisions on the BOMs is a critical need that is not available in Propel.

Very easy to run changes and manage items and training!

I am not to found of the salesforce background, but Propel does a good job on managing it.

versioning controls and options available for different business needs.

Signing off is an issue for many users. Causes frustration, lockouts, late training and lack of compliance as users just give up and ignore.

For starters, having an eQMS is wonderful! I don't know what other similar products are out there, but I know that Propel gives us everything we need and the support team is very good and always super helpful. The team that created Propel thought of everything. I like the salesforce platform as well. (by comparison, we also use NetSuite and I'm not too fond of the underlying Oracle platform)

Not everyone can recall/reject a change control record. Sometimes, when a user needs to bring a record back to initial state, they have to call us (Quality dept) to move it back. But this might be in our setup, I don't know if it's a feature of Propel.

Being able to customize and make custom objects, also the reports and dashboard.

Technical support is a little slower than it used to be and less detailed as it used to be in the past.

Not sure at which degree IA is incorporated but there is a lot of common sense searches and queries you can ask to Propel and it delivers.

I guess ut depends on how is configured but there some views where I wish I have more details or when creating reports can get confusing and sometimes you don't get the specific information in one single report.

The change control management is a great tool. It creates all the links to relevant records and controls changes across multiple documents.

Having the license set as they are it can be hard to workout who needs what license and what license type then need.

It's the most customizable PLM platform that I have personally ever used during my 10+ years in Product Development and is the most supported system by far, thanks to a very responsive team at Propel. They helped us design and tailor our Propel configuration based on our needs, including finished goods and BOM management, engineering change orders and revision control, quality control standards, supplier access and email notifications, and more.

It required a separate subscription/license with Salesforce due to the amount of cloud storage we required as an organization.

Ability to customize, User friendly and propel support is super responsive

Searching capabilities. Our users have a hard time searching for what they need in the global search. For example searching by the keywords of the file name doesn’t result in the correct documents that they want to find

absolutely nothing

buggy. broken features. upgrades brick things within the system. no support. no upgrades

How customizable it is and the customer support.

Some of the dependency on salesforce which makes it restrictive.

Easy navigation item information just clicks away.

Multi select pick list behaves odd sometimes

Ease of startup and BOM management, including AML

Some of the reporting and search capability

You can configure it to how you like it and how it is user friendly for new users

I wish it was easier to customize it or if they can bring more out of box features that medical devices companies will use instead of customizing it

Ease of use, great options for customerization.

I would like to see Propel publishing a list of industry best standards to help customers choose what options to start customerization with.

Easy to use and great modern look. But most importantly, it gets the job done.

Hard to configure initially. It takes tie to learn all the background function to control the front end that the user sees.

Propel is simple to use and easy to follow.

Configuration of propel is little complex.

Collaboration feature through chatter is awesome!

Bulk changes are nice when they work and we're having trouble with that in our current version.

Customizability and ability to keep track of everything

Sometimes we would experience bugs that are "groundbreaking" but take a while to fix