Posted on 20th April 2020

Sargent-Disc Online Training

Sargent-Disc is running a month of online training sessions to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the signing of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement on 22 April 2016.

In these times both Digital Production Office® applications CrewStart™ and Digital Purchase Order make it easy to work from home whilst also reducing the use of carbon on production and saving time.

Join their sessions on Earth Day itself and throughout the month.

CrewStart™ – Onboarding and Contracting: Wednesday 22 April at 15.00

Digital Purchase Order – Users and Approvers: Wednesday 22 April at 16.00

CrewStart – Timesheets and Hot Costs: Wednesday 29 April at 15.00

Digital Purchase Order – Administrators: Wednesday 29 April at 16.00

 

Wednesday 22 April at 15.00

CrewStart™ – Onboarding and Contracting

The course will teach you how to:

  • Invite crew members to the CrewStart system
  • Send start paperwork to crew including start forms, contracts and company policies
  • Check the status of pending paperwork and send reminders, no more searching through email inboxes
  • Approve, re-send and cancel crew contracts, including batch approval, office use only and checking attachments
  • Send to payroll for electronic import, speeding up the payroll turnaround
  • Download all approved paperwork in one go for your delivery bundle

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Wednesday 22 April at 16.00

Digital Purchase Order – Users and Approvers

Save 49g of CO2 per PO, 50kg of carbon on an independent drama to nearly a tonne on larger production.

The course will teach you to:

  • Write purchase orders, including purchases, rentals, coding and adding attachments
  • Review and find specific purchase orders using the search tools
  • Download POs as a PDF, both on their own and in specified batches
  • Approve purchase orders, including querying, declining and voiding POs
  • Modify POs, including coding and attachments
  • Log deliveries and payments so the accounts team know the status of an order

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Wednesday 29 April at 15.00

CrewStart – Timesheets and Hot Costs
You will learn how to:

  • Use daily time reports to log crew times and view daily hot costs
  • Pact-Bectu Agreement compatible for both film and TV
  • Batch generate crew timesheets each week for distribution and electronic signature
  • Batch approve timesheets on behalf of the production
  • Prepare your weekly SD payroll spreadsheet at the click of a button

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Wednesday 29 April at 16.00

Digital Purchase Order – Administrators
You will learn how to:

  • Set up the invoice and address details for your DPO book
  • Set up approval levels, including setting departmental restrictions, currency thresholds and special flag criteria
  • Modify already existing and in use approval chains
  • Invite users and manage their privileges, including visibility, approval and coding of POs
  • Manage your currencies, including setting customised budget rates
  • Manage reporting of POs including accounts office notifications and excel logs
  • Manage your chart of accounts

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