Manufacturing

ERP for paper, packaging and printing companies

Track every job from quote to shipment: manage job-specific bills of materials, work orders, paper and consumables stock, production cost and invoicing on one platform.

Make-to-order production where every job has its own cost

Most packaging and print jobs are customer-specific: size, paper weight, colors, cutting and quantity change with every order. The price is set at the quoting stage, while paper and board prices change at short intervals. Raw material is bought by the tonne or reel, processed as sheets and sold by the piece or carton. When quotes, costs and invoices are kept in different places, it takes too long to see how much a job actually earned.

Factorbooks Autonomous ERP keeps the sales quote, the job's production bill of materials and the work order on the same platform. Material Unit Management defines purchasing, production and sales units, and Production Costing calculates cost per work order. Production Management is included in SYNTRA and higher packages; a second plant or sales office is added as an additional branch.

Key benefits for paper, packaging and printing companies

  • From quote to work order

    Sales quotes, sales orders and production work orders are tracked on the same platform, so the quoted terms and production status of each job are visible together.

  • Job-level costing

    With Production Costing, paper, ink, die and other material and overhead costs are collected per work order.

  • Different units

    Material Unit Management defines units such as tonnes, reels, sheets, cartons and pieces on material cards.

  • Raw material price changes

    Purchase contracts and price difference invoices record price changes in paper and board purchases; Stock Cost Analysis shows the cost of stock.

  • Customer-specific terms

    Customer-specific prices, sales contracts and discount approvals ensure recurring packaging orders are invoiced on the agreed terms.

  • Partial deliveries

    Shipment planning, shipment orders and outgoing e-Waybills track partial deliveries by customer and order.

Featured industry-specific solutions

Production Management

Define a production bill of materials for each product or job, schedule jobs with Production Planning and track them with Production Work Orders. Production Costing, Production Performance and Production Reports & Analytics show results per job. Included in SYNTRA and higher packages.

Sales Quote and Order Management

Price jobs with sales quotes, sales price lists and customer-specific prices. Sales contracts, orders, price difference invoices and outgoing e-Invoices and e-Archive invoices are managed in the same module.

Material and Stock Management

Define paper, board, ink and consumables with unit and brand details. Paper reels can be tracked with serial / lot management; stock counts, stock movements and Stock Cost Analysis work by warehouse.

Purchasing and Supplier Management

Evaluate paper and board purchases with requests for quotation and supplier quotations. Purchase contracts, orders and incoming e-Invoices are recorded on the same platform, and Supplier Performance compares suppliers.

Shipment Management

Organize deliveries with shipment planning and shipment orders. Outgoing e-Waybills, sales waybills, transportation and logistics records and shipment returns are tracked in the same module.

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