APICS Cincinnati - StarChapter Redesign
What do you like best?
StarChapter, specifically Dana Ingle and team, did a fantastic job at rolling out the new M2 design template. At first it wasn't approved, due to potentially not meeting APICS/ASCM branding guidelines, but after a follow up with APICS Partner Services Manager (Leann Goettel) deemed it approved, then we got to work right away.
Things I like the best are:
- Modern look
- Hamburger button
- In Admin section, "Dashboard Snapshot" section is nice for quick summary of chapter health
What do you dislike?
Things that are least helpful are:
- StarChapter not supporting Internet Explorer
- Not being able to embed job board on website (i.e. not being able to have LinkedIn default search for Supply Chain Jobs in Cincinnati)
- Email Manager is not intuitive and seems very difficult to send out mass emails; should be as simple as sending out mass emails to distribution groups (i.e. Outlook, Gmail, etc)
- Survey Manager is not intuitive - it's much easier to use Survey Monkey and send out a link unfortunately
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Some benefits that I've realized are:
- Meeting Manager serving as platform to collect payments and for Members to sign up for events
- Setting up "Auto Reply" email, to New Members that get automatic email from VP of Membership, rather than manually looking up members and emailing them one-by-one (was done in the past, which was not efficient with time)
