Business Situation
Large organizations maintain an in-house printing press to not only to meet the stationery requirements, but also to have direct control on sensitive and critical publishing. Production, material and expense budgeting and passing on the actual costs of printing to respective department are the modus operands.
These presses work without any software and hence managing the activity, meeting the expectation of various departments, remaining viable and cost effective and proving it to higher management is the challenge. The businesses cry for an integrated system which will help them get a hold on information, which in turn can help them manage the press efficiently.
Solution
An ERP Software for Printing Industry created on a world-class business suite, Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Estimation—the backbone of the printing business
The estimators use an extremely intelligent engine of our printing industry-specific ERP software to arrive at the price to be quoted to the prospective customer. As the requirements are populated in the solution, the back end setups help him to arrive at the most appropriate machine and technique to be used and accordingly the prices are indicated by the system. This is done keeping in mind the constraints and possibilities for your specific press.
Multiple quantities costing feature helps us do the costing for multiple quantity simultaneously. This provides ease to the estimator and based on the furnished information to the prospect, they can decide to go for right quantity and allowed budget.
Enquiry leads to estimation and estimation leads to a quote.
Print Management Samadhan (PMS) built on Microsoft Dynamics NAV or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, is an ERP Software for Printing Industry. It has been designed in way that after an estimation is done on the software, quotes can be created from PMS and sent to the prospects, in hard copy, by email or in PDF. Once the quote is accepted by the customer, it is converted into an order by a click of the mouse. PMS monitors each enquiry as a case which has different stages that it goes to, time it takes to go to one stage from another, a person responsible for a stage and also who the person responsible reports to. Once again all the setups are done specifically to your organization. A snapshot of each case is easily available for review and all action items in the care of the persons responsible.
Production planning made easy and visual for you
All the jobs for which the order is in can be seen together on one screen along with the delivery timeline, customer details, and the planner has the option to zero into the date on which a job has to start. This planning can be done for a day, month, quarter and as frequently as one wants. All the jobs planned van be converted into a released production order in one go and by one single click of the mouse.
Facility to Gang Run or Combination Run
Running multiple jobs in the same production run is a typical requirement of a printing press hence it is also required on ERP Software for Printing Industry, which is important to save money and efforts. Every day, a printing press faces problems to choose which orders to print and the press sheets to print them on that would minimize the total cost of production. Our system provides you the feature which helps to significantly reduce prices by dividing the production costs across several jobs.
Critical Concerns
- Managing budgets
- Managing procurement
- Collecting and collating requirement of various departments
- Meeting delivery timelines
- Controlling wastages
- Getting a hold on the operations
- Costing and billing
- Managing the subcontracting easily
- WIP Monitoring
- Integration
- Despatch and invoicing management
- Managing multiple locations through one software
- Staying in touch with the information all the time from any where
- Staying viable
Print Management Samadhan ERP addresses the unique needs of the industry by giving a full control on the operations of a typical printing press. While the ERP Software for Printing Industry is being used for the day to day working, Microsoft Dynamics Nav or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as a reliable and integrated framework manages the inventory, purchase, sales, costing and subcontracting.
The natural integration of the solution with Microsoft Office which includes Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Outlook (the communication interface) helps the organization in leveraging the information in the integrated solution in multiple ways. The ease with which add on components like payroll, bio metric attendance, business intelligence etc. can be added gives the comfort to the organization that the solution will grow in number of users as well as in functionality to accommodate the growing needs of a growing organization.
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