Flexible packaging

Flexible packaging

Sector-specific, pre-configured processes

Order acquisition processes

  • handling of enquiries
  • cost calculation with variants
  • pricing & quotations
  • customer / service orders
  • contracts / delivery plans

Materials management

  • 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

Planning processes

  • 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

Production / checkback

  • acquisition of production data
  • electronic job folder
  • automated booking of items consumed and additions to stock
  • performance statistics for production

Dispatch and invoicing

  • transport planning
  • invoicing goods & service
  • handling of returns
  • stock / freight invoicing
  • customs clearance

Finance and controlling

  • financial accounting
  • fixed asset accounting
  • logistical integration
  • cost-center accounting
  • profit-center accounting
  • projected and actual cost calculation
  • profit and loss statement
  • management reporting

Quality management

  • inspection planning and inspection assignments
  • test certificates
  • error analysis / evaluation
  • complaint management

Electronic data exchange with customers and suppliers

  • forecast / sales history
  • preliminary planning and make-to-stock production

Optional modules

  • CRM
  • personnel management
  • maintenance
giving sensitive loose goods the optimum in protection, presenting them in a way that will promote sales, preproducing semi-finished goods in order to cut down lead times, ensuring constant product quality, controlling material flow over more than one plant and through several manufacturing phases and interim storage facilities, retracing batches and reels and providing evidence of what they were used for … all this, embedded in efficient technical and financial planning and management systems, makes very high demands on business software

Specific processes and solution components

Product development interfaces

  • Esko Automation Engine
  • Esko WebCenter
  • ink recipe / mixing systems

R&D order management

  • layer structure for composite films
  • manufacture of graphic artwork masters

Costs, yields, and milestones

  • print specification
  • generation of end or interim products with their print specification, colors, coatings and printing formes
  • version control of print images

Price tableau

  • suggestions for target price and minimum price level for any number of runs in accordance with target contribution margins
  • calculation of freight and storage costs
  • determination of optimal batches

Cost calculation / product generation

  • comprehensive set of standards for the calculation / optimization of trim, wastage, setup time and output
  • generation of products, parts lists and 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

Acquisition of production data and reel tracing

  • 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 Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)

Manufacturing sequences optimized in terms of setup

  • comprisal of individual orders, e.g., combined cutting orders with automatic cost allocation in retrospect
  • generation of manufacturing sequences so as to optimize setup, comprisal of orders and sequential sales prices

Other highlights

  • connection to packaging lines
  • paperless order picking
  • complete set of forms
  • graphic business reports featuring the most important management figures