A standard ERP knows items, bills of material and routings. A packaging order describes different things. In corrugated these are board grades and sheet sizes, in folding carton board grades and print variants. In flexible packaging they are recipes and layer structure, in board and paper fiber furnish and reel and sheet formats. These values only appear in product configuration. Rebuild them afterwards in the standard, and you maintain variants instead of products. A packaging ERP needs eight functions for this: main machine planning, converting planning, grade and recipe management, material and reel stock, reporting on trim waste and set-up waste, costing, post-calculation and load planning. Before any ERP project, check which of them your standard covers. Ask your vendor for one order that runs from product configuration through production to post-calculation.
Every segment has one main machine that sets the pace. In corrugated that is the corrugator, in flexible packaging the extruder, in board and paper the paper machine. Folding carton makers usually buy in their board, so their planning starts at the press. Main machine planning holds grades, widths and capacity in one model. Converting planning follows on from it. Depending on the segment, it covers printing, die cutting, folding and gluing, laminating and bag making, or slitting reels and cutting sheets. Both plans use the same product data. If the data sits apart, the sequence ends up in spreadsheets next to the system. Ask for one shared data set for both plans.
Grade and recipe management describes what a product is made of. That means board grades with their test values, the layer structure of a film or the fiber furnish of a paper. Material and reel stock holds grades, widths and grammages. It also holds consumption per order. Trim waste and set-up waste belong in the same report. For sheet goods, trim depends on how the blanks are laid out. For reel goods, it depends on how the widths are split. Without that report, scrap stays a residual figure in the monthly accounts. Ask to see trim waste and set-up waste per order.
Costing calculates product cost and sales price. The basis is the product configuration, not a price list. Post-calculation then compares actual consumption against plan. It separates material cost, labor cost and machine cost. In board and paper, energy consumption comes in as a separate figure. Without that comparison, margin per order stays an assumption. Ask for post-calculation built on the data behind the quote.
Load planning assigns pallets and shipping units to the order. It sets the number of pieces per layer and stack and the number of pallets per truck. That decides freight cost. The decision belongs in the quote, not at the loading bay. Tie load planning to the product configuration.
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The preconfigured solution for corrugated packaging covers all essential business processes, from simple sheet production to intricate FEFCO standard cartons and complex POS displays.
The preconfigured solution for folding cartons covers essential business processes, catering to the production of ECMA standard products as well as multi-part items with intricate CAD designs.
The preconfigured solution for flexible packaging assists in all pertinent business processes, from producing basic films to intricate bag manufacturing, including recipe management.
The board & paper industry-specific solution supports vital business processes for pulp and paper reel and sheet production, encompassing comprehensive recipe and consumption management.
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Products can be sold and handled in different units of measure. With “alternate units”, you can define which units are to be considered and how they are calculated. If one of the units cannot be calculated due to missing data, this unit is hidden.
For frequently recurring products, a template can be created for this product with all the necessary product specifications or even just parts of the specification, which can then be quickly used for a new product configuration.
Predefined conversion steps (refining processes) are a core feature of our industry solutions, ensuring efficiency across key processes. If a tailored industry solution isn’t yet available, we’ll work closely with you to seamlessly integrate the necessary conversion steps into the system, delivering a solution that meets your unique production needs.
Enables the cross-plant production of semi-finished products or production steps that are recorded as one product for the customer in the order. This means that individual production steps or individual parts do not have to be divided into different quotations.
You have the possibility to add documents to a configuration using SAP Standard Functionality of Documents (SAP DMS). In an overview you can see the data Document Type, Document Part, Document Number, Document Version, Document Description, Document Files, Status, In Use.
Dummy materials support the product configuration of previously unknown components (raw materials). Dummy materials are used during the quotation process and are replaced by actual procurement materials before processing a sales order.
The fast data entry supports you to create faster specification of configurations. The fast data screen doesn’t support the full scope and complexity of configuration but concentrates on the most common scenarios.
Industry-specific product styles are configured with product-related settings. These can be used during product configuration and are used to determine the quantities of raw materials or the size of semi-finished goods for production.
Machine and routing functions are orchestrated by categorizing machines into types based on their common capabilities. Defined thresholds determine the potential tasks that each machine type can handle. Production Routes then dictate the sequence of production steps, ensuring that each process step is equipped with the necessary tools and constraints for efficient operation.
You configure your products from customer inquiries in our product configurators and can, for example, have a large amount of data automatically created in the ERP after the order is received. Various activities can be set up with a variety of products ranging from a simple material creation with pricing conditions to the creation of inspection types and the assignment to inspection plans as well as packing instructions. For procurement materials the Purchasing Info Record as well as the Purchasing Source List can be created.
The material workbench is used for consolidated material maintenance in an industry and use-case specific overview. Individual materials that are assigned to a configuration can be edited here. Various industry-relevant scenarios, such as the maintenance of purchased materials or recipe management (e.g. for films) are available in the material workbench.
Effortless management of scale quantities, synchronized with identical product specifications but individually calculated production costs. The quantity in the offer can be compared with other open quantities or predefined quantities, such as a full truckload.
The Open Supervisor supports the creation of new configurations based on existing configurations, similar to a duplicate check, in which only later processing steps are to be changed. You can either copy a finished goods configuration or replace a procurement material and resolve the conversion steps defined in the configured procurement material master.
With Print Customization you can define the basic information for printing. This includes print type, technology (analog, digital), marking types and if adapters/print cylinders are allowed. Additionally, you can assign the allowed ink types per print as well as the position of the ink. In this customizing also available color codes (including L*a*b* information) are defined.
Separation supports the production process of more than one product from one sheet that will be separated afterwards for individual production steps. This can be a different product based on the design, print, or a combination of both.
Shipping & Unitization allows you to manage all the information you need (e.g. dimensions, limits) for packing and positioning your finished goods on pallets and preparing them for shipping, including the consumption of packaging material and label information.
The production of some products is very complex, due to the high number of SFGs and parallel sequences. To support the user during the configuration a graphical representation of the full product structure including its SFG components is provided.
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