Flexible Packaging

Optimally protecting sensitive, loose goods, presenting them in a sales-promoting manner, pre-manufacturing semi-finished products in order to shorten throughput times, ensuring consistent product quality, controlling the flow of materials across multiple production plants, production stages and intermediate warehouses, tracing batches and rolls and verifying their use ... All of this, embedded in efficient technical and financial planning and control systems, places very high demands on the business software.

Basic sector-specifically preconfigured processes

- handling of enquiries
- cost calculation with variants
- pricing & quotations
- customer / service orders
- contracts / delivery plans
- procurement processes
- stock management / storage facilities
- material retrieval administration
- contracts and delivery plans
- batch administration / batch tracing
- handling unit management
- control of material flow by bar codes
- labels / pallet flags
- materials / capacity planning
- automatic availability checks
- manufacture at more than one location
- third-party manufacture
- graphic production planning
- alternative manufacturing routes
- alert monitor for conflicts
- optimization of order sequencing
- acquisition of production data
- electronic job folder
- automated booking of items consumed and additions to stock
- performance statistics for production
- transport planning
- invoicing goods & service
- handling of returns
- stock / freight invoicing
- customs clearance
- financial accounting
- fixed asset accounting
- logistical integration
- cost-center accounting
- profit-center accounting
- projected and actual cost calculation
- profit and loss statement
- management reporting
- inspection planning and inspection assignments
- test certificates
- error analysis / evaluation
- complaint management
- forecast / sales history
- preliminary planning and make-to-stock production
- CRM
- personnel management
- maintenance

Implementations are typically 40% faster because out-of-the-box print and packaging best practices eliminate the need for major customizations

Specific processes and solution components

- Esko Automation Engine
- Esko WebCenter
- ink recipe / mixing systems
- layer structure for composite films
- manufacture of graphic artwork masters
- print specification
- generation of end or interim products with their print specification, colors, coatings and printing formes
- version control of print images
- suggestions for target price and minumum price level for any number of runs in accordance with target contribution margins
- calculation of freight and storage costs
- determination of optimum batches
- comprehensive set of standards for the calculation / optimization of trim, wastage, set-up time and output
- generation of products, parts lists [&] work schedules, maintenance of empirical knowledge
- determination of critical run sizes for alternative manufacturing routes
- planned product templates for multistage layer / recipe structure for all typical manufacturing procedures when widths have not yet been allocated
- recipe administration for wet, dry and alternative components
- comprisal of production data and material bookings at reel level via shop floor data collection (LP.SFDC)
- traceability report (reel level)
- retracing / evidence of utilization for batches and reels
- integration in QM, fulfillment of GMP
- comprisal of individual orders, e.g. combined cutting orders with automatic cost allocation in retrospect
- generation of manufacturing sequences so as to optimize set-up, comprisal of orders and sequential sales prices
- connection to packaging lines
- paperless order picking
- complete set of forms
- graphic business reports featuring the most important management figures