Order acquisition processes
- handling of enquiries
- cost calculation with variants
- pricing & quotations
- customers / contracts
- service orders
- call management
Leaflets, booklets and labels complement the packaging of proprietary articles and need to be delivered again and again at constant quality and precision, ideally together with the packing materials and just in time to the customer’s packing line. Our tried and tested solutions help you to achieve this.
Sector-specific, pre-configured processes
Materials management
- procurement & stock
- administration of storage facilities
- material flow management
- bar code label printing
Planning processes
- materials / capacity planning
- intercompany business
- production planning
- optimization of order sequencing
Production and checkback
- acquisition of production data
- acquisition of machine data
- electronic job folder
- performance statistics for production
- alternative manufacturing routes
- alternative machines
Dispatch and invoicing
- transport planning
- order picking
- invoicing of goods
- invoicing of services
- complaint management
Finance and controlling
- fixed asset accounting
- cost-center accounting
- projected and actual cost calculation
- profit and loss statement
- management reporting
Quality management
- inspection planning
- inspection assignments (goods-in, in-process and final inspection)
- inspection certificates
- evaluations & analyses
Optional modules
- personnel management
- maintenance
Specific processes and solution components
Prepress integration
- PDF workflow
- JDF connection to EskoArtwork
- JDF connection to image setter
Sheetfed integration
- JDF connection
- JMF connection Heidelberger
Product breakdown
- mathematical definition of folding variants
- optimal manufacturing routes
- alternative manufacturing routes
- automatic panelization
- verification of availability of slide-in carriage / cylinder for rotary offset and flexo
Postpress automation
- automatic panelization
- overall PDF version with graphic content or via EskoArtwork Step & Repeat
Cost calculation and products
- performance catalog of typical processes and machines with complications, interference factors and factors that may lead to reduced output
- set of standards for wastage, setup and output specifications
- generation of products, maintenance of empirical knowledge
- definition of critical run sizes for alternative manufacturing routes
- automatic updates when costs change
- fully automatic cost calculation for simple products with product structure generation
- individual cost calculation
Price tableau
- target prices and minimum price levels for all possible quantity scales
- extra charges for variants and additional work
- drawing up of price lists
Manufacturing aids
- version control of print images
- flexo block administration
- administration of punching tools for reel labels
SKU cockpit
- automated generation of variants, print images, gray component replacement, blocks
- implementation of color specifications in printing inks
- allocation of inks to block in order of printing
