Order acquisition processes
- handling of enquiries
- cost calculation with variants
- pricing & quotations
- customer / service orders
- contracts / delivery plans
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Sector-specific, pre-configured processes
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
- material / 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 / MES
- 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
- manufacture without customer order
- forecast / sales history
- preliminary planning and make-to-stock production
Optional modules
- CRM
- personnel management
- maintenance
producing and delivering standard packaging units in corrugated cardboard fast, reliably and inexpensively, developing individualized packaging solutions in corrugated cardboard with optimum content protection, printed and finished so as to be attractive and promote sales, meeting the logistical requirements of the supply chain with competence – your business software should help you to do all this by integrating a high degree of business process automation in your technical and financial management systems
Specific processes and solution components
Product development interfaces
- Esko ArtiosCAD / Esko CAD-X
- Esko Automation Engine
- Esko CAPE Pack optimization
- Esko WebCenter
- ink recipe systems
Print specification end products
- generation of specification for printing with inks and blocks
Trim Optimization interface
- forwarding of corrugated cardboard requirements
- comprisal of individual orders into cutting lists
Cost calculation
- comprehensive set of standards for the calculation of wastage, setup time and output for typical machines and processes
- fully automatic cost calculation for standard products
- generation and cost calculation for one-part and multipart products, maintenance of empirical knowledge
- determination of critical run sizes for alternative manufacturing routes
- cost calculation for one-part and multipart products in individual, sequential and aggregated manufacture
Price tableau
- suggestions for target price and minimum price level for any number of runs in accordance with target contribution margins
- extra charges for variants
- calculation of freight and storage costs
- determination of optimal batches
- drawing up of price lists
Tool / block administration
- calculation & accounting of tool and block costs
- initial / repeat procurement
- archiving / storage facilities
- version control & utilization
Manufacturing sequences optimized in terms of setup
- automatic optimization of manufacturing sequence in accordance with various different planning strategies
Production and logistics interfaces
- standard machine connections
- connection to ink mixing systems
- connection to driverless transport systems, packaging lines and high-rise rack facilities
- fleet management / route map
Other highlights
- graphic business reports featuring the most important management figures
