Development
Jakamo Development app can be used for managing development actions in your supplier network. Typical examples are sustainability actions, health and safety related actions agreements, logistic related development actions etc. Development app does not support integrations at the moment, so both development parties, always use the Jakamo web user interface.
Jakamo Development App is found under the APPS from the left navigation bar. Development App is available for all Jakamo users despite of whether it is in active use with some of the business partners or not.
Tasks can be utilized for outlining the development process. Learn more about the tasks in development item.
1. Development list view
The Development list view displays all the Development activities your company has sent and received. Note the separate sent and received tabs under the filters. The list view gives basic information about the Development. Each row represents a single development item. It’s possible to filter and sort the list view, for example, by development statuses. The filtering options and search feature helps the user to find a specific development. By hitting the BASIC FILTERS icon, items can be filtered with free text search targeted at title field. By hitting the ADVANCED FILTERS icon, filtering options are much wider. Development app also allows to hide development details from their users but they will still be visible in the list view.
Check that you are in the correct tab sent or received on the development list view to find Development you have sent or received!
2. Development in Jakamo
2.1 Creating a new Development item
New development item can be created by hitting the orange ADD NEW icon in top part of the Development list view. This will open the single development view.
2.2 Sharing
Sharing section shows the Owner company and Shared with -company, in the other words, development parties (the Customer and the supplier). Sharing authorizes this specific development to be visible only to these companies and all of their users.
- Owner company = the development owner company, a company that creates a development, usually the buyer company.
- Shared with = the company that the development is being done with, usually the supplier company.
2.3 Status
Development item status shows in which phase this development item is. As a default, new development item is in status Suggestion, but it can be also created in status Draft, In progress, Completed or Cancelled. Once development item has some progress, it can be updated to In progress or Completed status. Development item can also be cancelled by changing it to Cancelled status.
2.4 Basic info
Basic info consists of all the necessary basic information about the development. Basic info can be referred as title level information, including the title, development category, description, development date, validity period.
Development can be conducted also to companies that do not yet have a company account or business relations with your company in Jakamo. In those occasions, Company name and contact person can be typed to respective text fields within the Basic info section.
2.5 Users
Jakamo users related to the development item are presented in the Users section. Jakamo users can be assigned to be a responsible users of any existing item in Jakamo. The creator of the development item is an Author user of the item. One or more responsible users can be set to the item from Author or Shared with -company. See more about the Author and responsible users from Application functionalities page.
2.6 Benefits
This section is used to underly the benefits of development action. You may select from 6 predefined options here. Underneath you may also list your perceived benefits of the development action as well as numerical values for each target.
2.7 Tasks
Task can be used to manage and automatically remind users to do different kinds of activities related to the individual development or other Jakamo item. Tasks are explained more in detail on Application functionalities page.
One way for effective use of Jakamo Development is to add a task for each development process step. Users from the company the development is shared with can perform tasks and for instance set different statuses (In progress, ready for review, completed etc.) for each task.
This way both parties, the Author person or other users from the author company and the users from the company can follow and stay up to date about the progress made in development process.
2.8 Files
Development can contain different kinds of files as an attachment. This is useful when sending back and forth the documents as the development process evolves. Both owner and shared with companies can download and upload files if it is not separately denied by the Author user.
See how to upload or download files and how to use folders to help navigate when having multiple attachments on the Application functionalities page.
2.9 Tags
Tags can be used to categorize Development items in Jakamo in a customized way. See more about how to use tags on the Jakamo item. See also how to pre-define tags by creating tag groups on Jakamo company settings.
2.10 Discussion
Discussion section can be used to discuss transparently activities related to the development action between development item parties.
2.11 Submitting development action
When the Author has filled a new development item as needed, possibly added some tasks, files and tags to it, it can be shared to company(-ies) in the Shared with section by hitting the orange SUBMIT icon from the bottom of the single development view.
3. Receiving a new development item in Jakamo
Typically supplier companies are receiving the development item in Jakamo by customer companies. When your company receives development item from your partnership company in Jakamo, users within your company can edit and hence response to development in Jakamo, except it is limited to certain perosn.
Sections the users from the company an development is shared with can edit or add, are:
- Responsible user in Users section
- Tags You can learn more about tags from here
- Tasks Users from the companies the development is shared with can edit Responsible user, Deadline, Time estimate and Status columns for each task, if the Author user has not prohibited editing from the other companies. You can learn more about tasks from here
- Files Users from the companies the development is shared with can add new files and delete files they have added. Users from the Owner company can also delete the files that users from other companies have added. You can learn more about files from here
- Discussion Users from both parties can always add comments to discussions. You can learn more about discussions from here
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