Optimize board and paper production with our tailored ERP software. Seamlessly managing processes like pulp & paper production, pallet deliveries, and energy usage, our solution ensures quick data input, efficient formula management, and automatic pallet size determination, streamlining operations for enhanced productivity and user appeal.
The board and paper industry is faced with the challenges of sustainability, rising prices and the availability of raw materials. To meet these challenges, the ERP system for Board & Paper provides a holistic view of an organization’s operations, from raw materials to finished products. This enables board and paper manufacturers to optimize their processes and make better use of their resources, while managing the complexities of the paper production process.
The Aicomp Industry Suite for Board & Paper helps businesses to manage their operations more effectively by integrating all of their data into a single platform. This allows businesses to track their inventory, customers, and orders more efficiently and make better-informed decisions about production and pricing. This can help to streamline operations, improve customer service, and ultimately reduce costs.
With the Aicomp Industry Suite for Board & Paper, the paper industry can overcome its challenges and continue to thrive in the digital age.
Our solution offers a transparent overview covering various steps: chipping, pulping, cleaning, re-pulping, pressing-drying-rolling, coating, calendaring, sheet cutting, ream packing and palletizing. Tailored support is offered for pulp production types like TMP, CTMP, BCTMP, and recycled fiber pulp.
Efficiently manage paper production with recipe management, ensuring control over key components such as wood, recycled fiber, pulp, chalk, water, and additives. Monitor utility costs with detailed tracking of steam, fossil fuel, and electricity consumption, including energy recovery for optimized resource management.
Customize packaging instructions and streamline pallet order management for sheet cutters by determining pallet sizes from product configurations, optimizing packing processes. Efficiently plan pieces per layer, stack, and pallets per truck for seamless logistics.
BUSINESS EXCELLENCE FOR BOARD & PAPER PRODUCTION
The inquiry process can be manual, semi-automatic, or fully automatic, depending on your requirements. Direct service by employees is supported by numerous logics for correct product data. The inquiry process is also possible for self-services via mobile apps and web integrations (e-commerce). Subsequent editing of calculated component sizes is possible. With variant matching, the recognition of already configured materials including the packaging instruction, and the possibility of customization, you save time and reduce the risk of incorrect entries.
Cost calculation is based on variant costing, which considers detailed configuration models including all product parameters and the cost of all manufacturing services for paper and cardboard in different qualities and dimensions. This includes direct and indirect costs, like raw materials, utility costs (including the mapping of recovery processes), outsourced services, setup times, and more. The mapped production process involves chipping, pulping, cleaning, spreading the pulp, re-pulping (broke), pressing-drying-rolling, coating, calendaring, cutting sheets, ream packing, and palletizing. Raw materials include fibrous matter, fillers, sizing agents, colorants, and more.
Costs are based on the product calculation and can be specified in detail with surcharges and discounts based on customer agreements or specific characteristics of the product itself. Quotations can be created manually or automatically using customizable rules established by your organization. Multi-currency price definition is integrated.
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 such as quotation creation.
One of the key functions of master data management is master data reduction. This means creating quotations is based on variant matching from the product configuration.
Automatic master data generation is possible with the sales order. This means that the material master, bills of material and routing, pricing conditions and customer material info records will be generated based on the quotation.
Another important function of the master data management is the mass update framework. This integrates mass update processes that take care of all aspects of a product change. This can save a lot of time and ensure that all changes are made in a consistent way.
The Aicomp Industry Suite’s raw material management ensures that the correct materials are delivered to the production line in the correct quantities, and that materials are properly accounted for. It supports material requirement planning (MRP) management & procurement planning incl. stock management – also for the mapping of repetitive manufacturing for the continuous production of pre-products (pulp). You can manage multiple units of measurements (UoM) right from the raw material to finished goods.
The recipe management system maintains formulas for paper production specific to the machine across multi-stage materials with control over respective components as wood, recycled fibre, pulp, chalk, water or additives. This allows for maximum flexibility and traceability in production.
One special feature is the pallet order for a sheet cutter that is based on the determination of the pallet size from the product configuration as a dummy pallet.
The warehouse management system in the Aicomp Industry Suite is designed to track and move inventory quickly and efficiently. Shelf-life management is a key feature, allowing for the tracking of inventory with characteristics that limit shelf life, such as moisture content, potency, pH, and color. This ensures that finished goods are of the highest quality and that they meet customer expectations.
Aicomp’s machine routing is an important optimization tool that helps creating the most efficient production plan possible, based on selected characteristics like time, costs and capacity. Additionally, planners can use automated determined machine routings to compare the time and cost of various possible routes and choose the one that will be most productive for the company.
The Aicomp Industry Suite for Board & Paper supports numerous planning scenarios to support material and capacity planning as well as automated availability checks. The schedule can be based on just-in-time (JIT), material availability, machine constraints, resource and tooling availability, order backlog and shipping requirements.
The job approval process is another key element of production planning. This process helps ensure that all jobs are properly planned and that all necessary resources are available before production begins. Additionally, the job approval process can help catch errors or potential problems with a job before it becomes an issue on the shop floor.
Backlog management is also an important part of production planning. In many companies, the production planner is responsible for keeping track of the backlog of orders and ensuring that jobs are started and completed in a timely manner. This can be a challenging task, as the backlog can change rapidly based on customer demand and other factors.
The Aicomp Industry Suite for Board & Paper supports all processes concerning the production of pulp, paper and board as well as the downstream processing stages such as coating, calendaring, cutting and packing. You can map the different processing stages and determine the machines needed with all its technical features. The winding direction is also defined according to the production stage. Plant data is collected to optimize the production performance. The display of production times also includes averaged setup times based on product characteristics. In addition, scrap analytics are available based on product specifications.
Machine capacity and tolerance handling are considered in the scheduling and forecasting process to ensure that you have the plant capacity when required. Process routes are linked to product specifications and machine capacities. Also, tolerance handlings are considered.
For costing optimization purposes, you can produce different items at the same time by combining them for several production steps and separating them afterwards.
The Aicomp Industry Suite offers a full work order documentation system designed to your specification. Detailed technical data for shopfloor papers (technical data sheet) are available as well as product and customer data. Extensive production reports and enquiries are available including sales orders, credit control on order entry, duplicate customer reference checking, automatic or manual sales order numbering, contract, delivery schedule, call-off and delivery creation including supplementary charges and services. Customer discounts and rebates can be included as well.
When it comes to transportation planning, the Aicomp Industry Suite has a number of features that make the process easier for business owners to track deliveries and appointments directly into the system. The truck and container management in dispatch, for example, makes it possible to track the weight capacity of vehicles as well as their CFT (Cubic FT) utilization. This helps business owners plan their loads more efficiently and avoid overloading vehicles. Loading and unloading charge management is also supported. In addition, the customer returns booking with vehicle return function enables businesses to keep track of all returns in one place.
The Aicomp Industry Suite’s invoicing goods and services functionality streamlines the invoicing process by allowing businesses to create invoices for both goods and services, for example for storage and freight costs. The customer complaints management is another important feature.
Manage shipment variations against orders because of inherent process variations. This is an important feature, especially for businesses that deal with international shipments. Zone-based shipment planning is another helpful feature that allows businesses to plan their shipments according to geographical zones. The shipment history details function keeps track of all past shipments, making it easier for businesses to reference older shipments when necessary. The print or email delivery documents function allows businesses to easily print or email delivery documents such as loading lists, bills of lading, and PODs (proofs of delivery).
The Aicomp Industry Suite offers a wide range of features for financial accounting, asset accounting, and logistics integration. You can keep track of your costs with detailed cost center accounting, and generate reports that are tailored to your specific industry.
Profit analysis is also available, so you can see how your business is doing on a per-product basis. Production costs can be broken down by material and quantity, making it easy to identify any inefficiencies.
And if you need to bill customers differently based on their individual preferences, the Aicomp Industry Suite has you covered. You can also export reports to Excel for further analysis. Accounts payable, receivables, and the general ledger are all integrated into the system, so you can keep track of all your financial data in one place.
And if you need to go into more detail, the Aicomp Industry Suite’s intuitive drill-down feature makes it easy to get all the information you need. Finally, the flexible financial statement writer lets you create custom reports that meet your specific needs.
The Aicomp Industry Suite offers a comprehensive quality management system that allows you to effectively plan and order inspections, certify your products, analyse and report defects, manage compliance, manage alerts and create Q&A documentation.
The system also implements legal requirements and supports compliance with industry standards. This allows all materials, additives, semi-finished and finished products involved in production to be effectively traced, by roll, batch or pallet.
SEAMLESS INTEGRATION FOR OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE
Connect and align your systems effortlessly with our standardized interfaces. Aicomp ensures a seamless exchange of data throughout your organization, facilitating efficient operations and optimal productivity.
EXPERIENCE CREATES FIRST-CLASS SOLUTIONS
Utilizing its knowledge, Aicomp crafts a modular solution concept designed to meet industry-specific needs with precise software solutions. These solutions are modularly combinable, allowing customization according to customer preferences.
