Revolutionizing flexible packaging, our preconfigured ERP software ensures a streamlined workflow with seamless integrations, process automation, and customized features. Tailored for film production and diverse flexible packaging types, it accelerates data input, configuring 80% of products rapidly. Graphic overviews detail film compounds, while automatic detection simplifies workload, making it a vital solution for the industry’s unique demands.
Tailored for the plastics extrusion industry, our Flexible Packaging Software addresses the challenges of innovation, individual customer requirements, and cost efficiency. Featuring predefined industry-specific master data, business processes, and templates for estimating flexible packaging, it ensures a quick project start.
Our preconfigured solution accommodates a high number of bag types, including bottom fold, stand-up, and pouch designs. Offering a transparent overview of production steps such as extrusion, lamination, calendaring, print, and refining, it provides clarity on complex compounds.
The software serves as a sophisticated industry-specific base, ready for further optimization and automation through individual customization.
Choose from a versatile array of bag types, including bottom fold, stand-up, and pouch designs, all easily configurable. Common options are pre-defined, ensuring convenience and quick utilization for your packaging needs.
Efficiently manage recipes from raw materials to film, including version control to block specific versions. Calculate multi-layer compounds during extrusion and gain a transparent overview of all production steps for a clear understanding of complex compounds.
Optimize shipping and unitization with advanced packing processes. Calculate pieces per layer, stacking arrangements, and pallets per truck for efficient logistics. The palletization optimization automates optimal pallet sizing, considering product dimensions and weight restrictions.
BUSINESS EXCELLENCE FOR FLEXIBLE PACKAGING
The Aicomp Industry Suite for flexible packaging manufacturers provides comprehensive support for a variety of inquiry functions, including manual, semi-automatic and fully automatic processes. In order to facilitate correct product data, the software utilizes user-friendly input masks that contain various logics, supported by feasibility checks based on your product parameters and production steps. Moreover, it offers transparent calculation capabilities for both standard flat films and tubes, as well as composite materials that are produced at different plants.
The ERP software also includes powerful cost and pricing features such as detailed configuration models for variant costing. This comprehensive system takes into account the product’s parameters such as color, adhesive, varnish, zipper, sealing etc., in addition to the costs of production services such as printing, laminating, embossing, sterilizing, perforating, folding etc. As an added benefit to customers, it provides strategic pricing levels and quantity scales that may even incorporate scale prices for purchased materials and outsourcing activities. Furthermore, the software generates all the necessary order documents for the customer.
Our master data management with Aicomp’s product configurators helps to improve data quality and consistency, makes it easier to manage data, and speeds up processes.
Aicomp’s product configurators within the ERP software help to reduce master data in the quotation generation phase, making it easier to generate accurate and timely quotes.
Additionally, the automated generation of master data during order confirmation stages is supported. With the sales order all needed data, like the material master, bills of material and routing, pricing conditions and customer material info records will be generated based on the quotation.
To help with product changes, Aicomp’s product configurators also provide integrated mass update processes, making it easier to make changes and ensuring that all aspects of the product are handled.
The Aicomp Industry Suite is specifically designed for flexible packaging manufacturers. It offers a comprehensive set of functionalities to help streamline and optimize the material management.
These include recipe management for mono- or co-extruded films incl. component control for availability planning and traceability, shelf-life management, material requirements planning (MRP) & procurement planning, and tool management.
The Aicomp Industry Suite ensures efficient tracking of raw materials or semi-finished goods through work-in-process to finished products with continuous inventory management by warehouse, storage location, order number and tag number.
In addition, it provides proactive wear control and replacement for punching tools, printing plates and printing tools. By leveraging these features provided by The Aicomp Industry Suite, flexible packaging manufacturers can ensure that their processes are managed efficiently while maintaining high quality standards.
The Aicomp Industry Suite offers a range of powerful functionalities to help streamline their production processes and maximize efficiency.
It provides advanced cross-company planning capabilities, allowing users to plan for any number of production variants and quantities with material and capacity planning as well as automated availability checks (ATP/CTP).
Additionally, it has a configurable plausibility check that helps identify machines on which the production of products would be feasible.
Finally, an automated work plan based on selected characteristics can optimize the entire production route within the company.
The Aicomp Industry Suite provides a comprehensive range of features to support all processes in the production cycle, from pre-press to extrusion and print, laminating and converting, right down to logistics.
This software has been developed with industry-specific bills of material (BOM) that are tailored to meet the unique needs of relevant machines such as extruders and compounders. Furthermore, it supports both standard products as well as more complex customized products. Combined production steps for different articles can also be seamlessly managed for maximum efficiency.
The Aicomp Industry Suite also offers advanced print form management options for flexo plates, sleeves or gravure cylinders plus winding direction determination after printing or laminating processes like duplexing or triplexing. Additionally, it collects operating data and statistics on production performance while providing detailed documentation on technical data, work orders and customer orders.
The Aicomp Industry Suite provides a range of functionalities to help streamline and optimize processes, from transport planning through to invoice dispatch. With The Aicomp Industry Suite, you can easily manage truck and container transportation. Companies can define their own criteria for transport types based on transportation costs or time constraints.
The palletization optimization feature helps companies optimize their packing processes by automatically calculating optimal pallet sizes based on product dimensions, weight restrictions and other factors. create detailed delivery documents with labeling capabilities and manage customer complaints quickly.
The Aicomp Industry Suite also enables users to create detailed delivery documents including labels for each shipment which can be used for tracking purposes throughout the supply chain. Additionally, the system also features a customer complaint handling module which allows users to easily manage customer grievances in an organized manner.
The Aicomp Industry Suite’s Transport Planning feature allows for easy truck and container management. Companies can define their own criteria for transport types based on transportation costs or time constraints.
Finally, The Aicomp Industry Suite has an automated invoice dispatch feature which can automatically generate invoices upon delivery of products and send them out to customers within minutes.
The Aicomp Industry Suite provides a comprehensive financial accounting system with all the necessary tools for efficient and accurate bookkeeping. It enables users to track payments and invoices, set up cash management systems, manage bank accounts, reconcile accounts against general ledger entries, maintain budget records and generate financial statements. Additionally, it offers flexible industry-specific reporting such as product-based revenue analysis as well as cost profit analysis by customer or job order.
The software allows users to track fixed asset purchases and depreciation over a period of time. Additionally, the software can be used to calculate taxes due on assets, manage lease accounting and track other related expenses such as maintenance costs.
You can record and manage production costs associated with each individual production run. This allows users to have a better understanding of their operational costs and identify areas where they can reduce expenses.
The Aicomp Industry Suite offers seamless integration with third-party payroll systems, allowing users to easily transfer employee data between their ERP system and the payroll provider.
The Aicomp Industry Suite provides a comprehensive suite of quality management functionalities that help ensure compliance with industry standards and legal requirements.
Scheduling inspections allowing users to keep track of which materials need to be inspected at any given time. Additionally, The Aicomp Industry Suite allows users to create detailed defect analysis reports in order to identify potential issues before they become problems.
The Aicomp Industry Suite also helps companies maintain compliance with various industry regulations and standards by automatically implementing relevant protocols within the system. For example, it can facilitate cleanroom production protocols.
The software also provides effective tracking of all materials and various components used in production. It can track items by roll, batch or pallet, providing increased visibility into the overall production process.
SEAMLESS INTEGRATION FOR OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE
Effortlessly connect and synchronize your systems with our standardized interfaces. Aicomp ensures a smooth data flow across your entire enterprise, enhancing operational efficiency and maximizing performance.
EXPERIENCE CREATES FIRST-CLASS SOLUTIONS
Leveraging its expertise, Aicomp devises a modular solution framework tailored to industry-specific needs, offering explicit software solutions. These solutions can be flexibly combined based on customer specifications.
