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ScheduALL Powers Andrita Media Center
July 17, 2008
Source: ScheduALL
Andrita Media
Center, the largest independent high-definition (HD) digital
media facility on the West Coast, has joined the ranks of
leading media and broadcasting organizations that are driving
their businesses with the ScheduALL Enterprise Resource Management
system. At Andrita, ScheduALL provides the end-to-end solution
for booking and managing all facilities, resources, and personnel,
and seamlessly creates client invoices from this information.
Based in Los Angeles, Andrita is a 106,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art
HD facility fully equipped to provide a one-stop-shop for
production professionals. The campus includes three television
production stages; two HD/SD production control rooms; a radio
studio; and office, dressing, editing, and support facilities.
The media center was acquired in April 2008 by current owner
and operator Broadcast Facilities, Inc. (BFI). BFI is lead
by President and Chief Operating Officer Bill Tillson and
Chief Executive Officer Simon Bax.
Prior to ScheduALL, Andrita relied on a combination of basic
desktop applications to schedule and manage the facility.
The invoicing, accounts receivable, and client data also were
handled with separate systems.
"We were entering data manually because we were a captive
facility for a single client and we did not have a need for
a sophisticated system. Today, we've expanded to track multiple
clients which has made our billing processes much more complex,"
said Tillson. "With 20 networks on the air 24 hours a
day, 365 days a year, and a number of new networks about to
launch — as well as three sound stages and 40 edit bays
to manage — ScheduALL has become essential to our operations."
At Andrita Media Center, ScheduALL automates all aspects of
a client project, creating a seamless workflow beginning with
the scheduling of various production and post-production resources.
Throughout this process, ScheduALL captures and tracks necessary
data such as billable hours spent in a given facility. ScheduALL
also eliminates redundant data entry and accelerates the invoicing
process by automatically feeding the data into the accounting
process for final invoicing upon the project's completion.
At every stage in the project, Andrita personnel can access
the central view of all key project information to make decisions
based on real-time data for bookings, hours spent, and costs
incurred to date.
Recently, the facility extended its current ScheduALL system
to include the Media Manager module, which will allow Andrita
to organize, store, and track its media assets as they move
through the workflow. Fully integrated with ScheduALL, Media
Manager seamlessly manages work orders, trafficking, shipping,
and duplication areas of the system.
"ScheduALL is the industry standard for enterprise resource
management. There really is no other solution available to
manage the many complex resources within a facility as large
as ours," said Tillson. "The system was designed
and developed by people who grew up in the broadcast industry,
and they understood our business walking in the door."
"Andrita Media Center has become synonymous with turnkey,
top-quality delivery of some of today's most popular entertainment,
and we're pleased that ScheduALL is playing such an important
role," said Joel Ledlow, CEO of ScheduALL. "Andrita
is among many top production and origination facilities that
have embraced ScheduALL as the key to delivering the highest
quality output possible, and in the end, maximizing profits
on every project."
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