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Solutions for print & packaging companies

The way to profit: total control

Business pains

Key issue: timing. Gaining control over the shop floor is crucial for success in the print & packaging industries. Many companies still work with tools like magnetic schedule boards and spreadsheets for planning and scheduling. Keeping up with the ever increasing pace and dynamics of manufacturing is becoming more and more difficult.

Key challenge: how to link operational planning and execution in real-time to control all critical internal and external resources and to synchronize all order fulfillment activities.

Quyntess Performance Solutions:

Advanced Planning and Scheduling
If your company is focused on 'to order' processes, we deliver Advanced Planning and Scheduling solutions that are firmly integrated into manufacturing execution systems (MES) and master production scheduling (MPS) applications, and can deliver the best schedules at the work center level with real-time updates.

While reducing costs and still focusing on business goals like cost reduction, profitability, throughput and on-time delivery, this system will also help you answer tough questions. For instance:

  • Which job should I run and when?
  • What are my current bottlenecks and how can I solve them?
  • Which orders will be late?

Thanks to our business expertise and applications, which allow you to configure the business logic that drives your planning decisions, you'll enjoy the advantage of high-quality schedules without the labor-intensity you're used to. Instead of spending large amounts of time on scheduling, your planners will be free to focus their efforts on reviewing resource and material problems and managing exceptions.

Synchronize internal and external resources and activities
With the Advanced Planning and Scheduling you can reduce setup and changeover times, coordinate approval sessions with customers, deliver real customer service information and synchronize the planned requirements for customer-delivered materials like films, logo's, printing specifications etc.

Manage Projects and Intellectual Property in a Collaborative environment
The Printing and Packaging industry sells a product with a high service content. This means that in many projects you have to integrate input from third parties in your processes, like Artwork houses, DTP specialists etc. With this industry-specific characteristic in view, we've developed a project management system that allows you to interactively manage projects with all involved parties. The system is designed to manage all phases, including those prior to manufacturing. Our project management solution includes a web-based solution for managing intellectual property (artwork, files) and an on-line design approval process, including change control. The full integration of this solution in our advanced planning and scheduling application is unique.