WP2000 Modules and functions

1. Sales:

Customer master data for various data ranges:

• Customer identification

• Financial data

• Delivery addresses, mailing addresses for contracts and invoices

• Contact persons

• Communication numbers Data on the purchasing potential of customers, also for the competition

• Solvency and receivable analysis, credit management

• Managing events related to the customer

• Marketing data

Article master data, product descriptions:

• Sales figures

• Specific production technology data, technical design descriptions
• Types of raw and auxiliary materials, norms
• Use of resources (production path), norms
• Packing and packaging data

Managing sets of articles

• Combining several simple articles into a complex product
• Automated management in the production and sales processes

Cost calculation

• Capable of determining marginal costs
• Cost elements reflect actual expenses
• Calculation can be linked organically to other modules (input, output)
• Costs are distributed to actual processing machines, taking into account calculated machine time (set-up time, runtime)
• Determines fixed and variable cost elements
• Automatic assignment of resources (machine search), even between plants
• Calculates material, equipment, transportation, administration and other general costs
• "Internal" calculation also without article master data

Offers

• Based on article master data and/or cost calculation
• Manages customers and interested parties
• Various quantities can be offered for each product
• Supports partner-dependent pricing schemes based on automatic cost calculation, calculates margins
• Automatic generation of customer price lists
• Different output tools: screen, printer, e-mail, fax

Orders

• Multi-tier order management: several order items (articles) may be assigned to each order and several delivery positions may be assigned to each order item
• Order types with different handling methods: normal customer, customer with warehousing, production for stock, framework
• Flexibly adjustable production orders, managing several steps and phases
• Tracking order history during the sales process
• Managing sets
• Supporting JIT orders

2. Rough planning

• Planning loads for production machinery
• Creating production calendar, planning time base
• Automatic loading based on production orders
• Indication of exceeded capacities
• Load distribution on a graphic interface
• Automatic finish report based on data collection at the plant(s)
• Load-capacity diagrams according to time requirement as well as in measurement units characteristic of the processing machine
• Presenting data on a daily and weekly basis

3. Fine planning

Sorting

• Determining quantities to be produced, based on the rough plan
• Pre-selection for the cutting plan: based on type of sheet machine, type of flute, sheet quality, planned production date, processing machine, etc.
• Load graphs for machines and qualities

Cutting pattern

• Cost-based trim loss optimisation
• Advanced mathematical algorithm (linear programming)
• Optimises for various qualities and paper widths simultaneously
• Monitors base paper stock, checks paper shortage
• Optional combination of different qualities
• Rotatable flute direction
• Optional enforcement of 100% cutting to pattern
• Optional splitting
• Transparent graphic interface, manual intervention options

Fine program

• Determines order of sheet and processing machines
• Calculates time requirement
• Automatic time synchronization based on plant data collected
• Checks deadlines, recognizes and indicates clashes
• Reserves base paper automatically
• Manages transfers between plants, manual processing, cooperation production
• Automated printing of production records
• On-line connection with sheet machines

4. Collecting data at the plant

• Production and downtime figures for sheet and processing machines
• Event-oriented, time-order data entry
• On-line and batched entry options
• Automatic data transfer from production equipment (if a connection can be established)
• Manages quantities produced, used and rejected
• Manages stocks of semi-finished and finished products
• Records employee activities, posts data to the wages department
• Manages production equipment, keeps user statistics
• Prints graphically designed individual labels to accompany the products
• Wide range of target-fact analyses, operating performance statistics

5. Managing base paper rolls

• Manages base paper stocks as to the number of rolls (quantity)
• Optional electronic receipt of incoming materials
• Manages rolls with quality reservations separately
• Monitors minimum stock levels for each type of paper
• Reserves stock based on cutting list, provides data on available stock for cutting plan
• Keeps track of raw material use for each production item
• Stores and displays suppliers, quality parameters and qualifications
• Data connection with stock systems, automated bookkeeping of arrivals and uses

6. Managing and delivering finished goods

• Manages stocks of finished goods per storage location
• Manages turnovers assigned to order items, both by type of movement and in a time order
• Keeps records based on packages (usually stacks)
• Transfers data from plant data collection, optional barcode-driven receipt
• Arranges transportation as to stock, delivery disposition and delivery direction
• Makes loading plans, manages forwarding agents
• Manages pallets and other transportation auxiliaries, manages receivables
• Arranges deliveries and transfers between plants
• Prepares delivery notes and other records (CIM, CMR, EBG etc.)
• Sends customer notices automatically, with a built-in fax system
• Manages consignment warehouse
• Optionally prepares warehouse invoices

7. Invoicing

• Automatically prepares invoice recommendation based on delivery data
• Optionally combines delivery notes
• Prepares daily, weekly and monthly collective invoices
• Manages complete sets
• Invoices other trading goods and services
• Manages several invoice formats
• Optionally prints collective invoices
• Data connection to accounting systems, automated account distribution, electronic data posting
• Manages several invoice number ranges, working areas
• Manages product charges
• Automatically manages advances
• Calculates commissions and bonuses

8. Quality assurance

• Manages and qualifies the results of laboratory tests performed on products and raw materials, prepares measuring records
• Product and base paper suitability
• Performs measurements of supplier and customer samples
• Manages customer complaints, comments and internal signals of error
• Corrective activities
• Manages types of measurement, qualifying algorithms, standards, specifications, examination regulations
• Comprehensive statistical analyses