- handling of enquiries
- cost calculation with variants
- pricing & quotations
- customer / service orders
Producing and supplying a large number of variable products, just in time and on a daily basis, and on competitive terms – we can help you to achieve this with our unique process automation and full cost and yield transparency in real time.
Basic sector-specifically preconfigured processes
- procurement
- stock management
- administration of storage facilities
- material flow management
- printing of labels
- materials / capacity planning
- intercompany business
- production planning
- optimization of order sequencing
- acquisition of production data
- acquisition of machine data
- electronic job folder
- performance statistics for production
- quality inspection
- transport planning
- invoicing of goods
- invoicing of services
- complaint management
- fixed asset accounting
- cost-center accounting
- projected and actual cost calculation
- profit and loss statement
- management reporting
- personnel management
- quality management
- maintenance
Specific processes and solution components
Webshop integration
• automatic generation of orders
• synchronization of master data
• continual status reports
• transmission of products and variants to shop with basic and extra charges
Prepress integration
• PDF workflow
• JDF connection to prepress
• JDF connection to image setter
• JDF connection to offset printing
Product breakdown
• mathematical definition of folding variants
• optimum manufacturing routes
• automatic panelization
Postpress automation
• automatic panelization
• attention to delivery priorities
• approval of suggestions for joint print allocation and overall PDF version with graphic content
Cost calculation
• performance catalog of typical processes and machines
• complications / factors that may lead to reduced output
• set of standards for wastage, set-up and output specifications
• generation of standard and individual products
• maintenance of empirical knowledge
• cost calculation of variants
• definition of critical run sizes for alternative manufacturing routes
• automatic updates when costs change
• cost comparison between parcel service and carrier
Price tableau
• target prices and minimum price levels for all possible quantity scales
• extra charges for variants and additional work
• automatic fixing of sales prices in accordance with target contribution margins
• calculated risk factor involved in joint print allocation
• drawing up of price lists
Finishing and distribution cockpit
• packing at the cutting machine
• division of run to cater to any number of delivery addresses
• per-delivery packing instructions
• despatch label printing
• clear labeling of cash-on-delivery packages
• cash-on-delivery lists
Important extra functions
• incoming payment / delivery stop conditional on preflight check
• recalculation of delivery date depending on priority
• aggregated report (acquisition of production data) for short runs
• aggregated product costing analysis[/us_iconbox]