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Product Development Managing new product development can be a challenge. Operationally, live production and R&D departments have different needs and some things need to be kept separate, like recipes under development, test ingredients and samples. Minotaur’s Product Development option was designed to handle the unique needs of development without impacting mainstream production. When combined with Minotaur’s optional timesheet tracker, you can track the time being spent on each development project assisting with SR&ED grant submissions. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Minotaur CRM allows you to manage your business contacts – both prospects and customers – to help you track all interactions for improved customer service. A master record for each contact keeps track of all your key information about that contact. Each Minotaur user can be assigned tasks to complete for a given contact, like preparing quotes, following up on complaints, etc. When that task is complete, the Minotaur user can record the task as finished and add in any related comments in the notes section. All entries are date stamped to easily view the chronological history of events. A prospect can be tied to a customer master so the entire history of your sales prospecting and customer interactions is retained. 19 19