The following paragraphs give an overview of essential features and characteristics of the LP packaging best practices per business segment. Detailed descriptions of business processes and flow chart representations of the business processes are included in the delivery.
Product Development
- development order management
- specific support for development services
- electronic transfer of order queues to the development department
- recording of product development services without vouchers
- complete integration of servicing with material management
- resource planning
- invoicing out of development orders
- automatic analysis of development cost and revenues
- management of CAD drawings
- management of detailed drawings
- management of the change history and where-used lists
- classification of CAD drawings
- retrieval of CAD drawings with reference to specification features
- system supported links to product, CAD layout, tool and version control
- visualization of CAD drawings
- traceability of CAD drawing
- interface to CAD system
- download of product features from sales orders
Printing Forms
- order management for printing form production
- specific support for printing form services
- electronic transfer of order queues
- recording of product development services without vouchers
- complete integration of servicing with material management, controlling and finance
- resource planning, detailing of services
- invoicing out of the printing form production order
- automatic analysis of printing form cost und revenues
- management of print layouts with reference to version and status
- management of change history
- classification of print layouts
- retrieval of print layouts with reference to customer item
- system supported links
- on-screen visualization of print layouts (PDF link)
- traceability of print layout versions per order
- structured colour specifications
- product specification print-out for external use
- automatic assignment of sort codes and gluing edge codes
Product Specification
- unambiguous product identification
- order independent and redundancy-free documentation
- assignment of version controlled printing layouts and CAD drawings
- change history
- print-out of the product specification (product sheet)
- archiving and labelling of important product documents and product records
- multi-level product hierarchy
Planning Of Product Family Related Manufacturing Paths
- configurable optimal routings per product family
- order related configuration
- assignment of components, production resources, instructions and inspection features to operations
- algorithms for automatic calculation of planned waste
- integrated version-controlled tool management and printing form management
- algorithms for automatic consideration of set-up times dependent on order variables
- algorithms for the automatic consideration of machine performance
- conversion factors for components and operations
- integration of ink specification, recipe management and ink consumption algorithms
- alternative routings and cross-plant routings
- external processing (subcontracting)
- single-level and multi-level routings for make-to-stock / make-to-order
- one-off and combined printing
- configurable routings for multi-part items
- pre-defined dependencies for typical product groups
Manufacturing, Purchasing and Maintenance of Tools and Printing Forms
- tool order management
- integration of tool management, material management, controlling, and finance
- invoicing of tool costs based on tool orders
- automatic analysis of tool cost per product family, customer and business area
- allocation of maintenance cost in proportion to print order quantity
- version control of tools and printing forms
- link of technical documents to tools and printing forms
- tools master containing technical data
- maintenance notifications and maintenance orders, automatic availability check
- standardized tools purchasing process
- cylinder management (gravure printing, flexo printing)
Costing of New Products
- integration of costing of new products into sales, material management, production, controlling, finance
- configurable routing independent from individual products
- algorithms for optimizing blank dimensions
- automatic multi-level waste calculation accounting for various influencing factors
- automatic selection of operations and components based on user`s parameter settings
- integrated tools costing, wear and tear costing
- calculation of freight and stock costs, sales reductions, rebates and discounts
- fast calculation of scaled quantities and technical alternatives
- pricing proposal based on specified target gross margin
- combination of multiple products in a single quotation
- automatic identification of quantity-dependent raw material prices
- manufacturing costs report and price analysis report
- generation of the product specification in the quotation document
- quotation tracing and control of success
Sales Order Processing
- independent sales and production orders
- configurable sales order positions, stock items, trading goods and sets
- sales order entry
- automatic order generation via EDI
- order generation with reference to contracts; contract processing
- support of pricing
- integrated order calculation; price analysis
- sales statistics and sales history
- call-off management related to sales orders
- identification of sales order positions
- automated invoicing of delivered goods
- returns and credit note processing
- integration with finance
Transportation Planning and Shipping
- automated generation of delivery-due lists
- overview of finished good stock and planned production dates
- integrated transportation planning for combining deliveries into shipping orders
- freight calculation based on freight tables
- shipping order management, order tracing and order accounting
- printout of delivery and transport documents, customs handling
- integration with finance
