PrintVis

PrintVis is a Microsoft-based system to handle all types and sizes of printing, packaging, and label industry companies. Microsoft Dynamics gives you a strong ERP platform for your business, while PrintVis provides a print-specific functionality required to control all the production details through the lifecycle of a job, from estimate to delivery. PrintVis manages all your printing and production processes, warehousing, and invoicing in one solution.

A complete solution for print, packaging, or label companies

PrintVis provides all the necessary functions for continuous business management

Estimating and quoting  

• The flexible setup makes it easy for the users to estimate jobs, using the various building blocks, including templates customized to your specific needs.

• Quote requests that require multiple options are easily made with a few clicks.

• PrintVis estimation gives you all the key figures you need – a complete overview of the economic aspects of a job, such as direct cost, total cost, overhead, markup and ultimate sales price.

Case management

• The “Case Management” function grants a full view of cases with detailed information on deadlines, delivery dates, customer information, job history, etc.

• With “Case Management” you can control and follow the flow of jobs throughout your company, with a full overview of outstanding quotes, confirmed orders, and jobs in progress.

• PrintVis is built to ensure that every job, at any time, has someone designated as being the “current responsible” (from the Estimator to the Salesperson to the Production Coordinator to the Shop Floor Worker)

Planning and scheduling

• Automated or Manual scheduling. Use the built-in functionality to schedule your jobs automatically or semi-automatically, as a new order is made. The system generates suggestions for optimal production efficiency, leaving you in charge to update or schedule manually.

• There are several levels of scheduling within PrintVis. You may base your Production schedule on milestones, schedule a bottleneck detailed, or schedule to the utmost details of dates, times, and production speeds.

• The system contains different graphics presentations, to grant you easy, but thorough information on machine capacities, available man-hours, and scheduled production.

Shop floor management

• The Shop Floor module will ensure that your production team always has the latest, and updated, production instructions on hand, with all information drawn directly from the database.

• The Shop Floor module retrieves data on the consumption of goods and time directly from your production site and posts the information to each production order in real-time. This grants you an updated status of every order in your production and your available machine capacity.

Inventory and purchasing

• PrintVis grants you a full overview of your purchase needs for both goods and services based on individual job planning.

• PrintVis allows you to use centralized purchasing, individual purchasing per job coordinator, or a combination of the two. PrintVis also grants you full control over which items are to be managed by automated purchase suggestions in the system.

Financial management and invoicing

• Set up business rules –payment terms and discounts for individual customers and vendors. Handle the full range of legal requirements and currency issues inherent in international trade, including euro business

• Analyse by a variety of criteria, such as profit, cost centres, departments, regions, product lines, or any other reporting unit. Use a range of pre-defined reports or customized company-specific reports.

• The invoicing of jobs is fully integrated into estimating, consumption, and job costing. Based on this information you can build the invoice with a single click.

Integrations

• PrintVis integrates with MS Office, 3rd-party web-to-print solutions, and JDF (Job Definition Format).

Why choose PrintVis?

• A tailor-made solution for print, packaging, or label companies.

• Handle every stage of your production from quote until the job is completed, delivered, invoiced and analysed.

• Optimize your company performance, increase productivity, and enable more efficient use of resources. Reduce error probability in quotes and estimations.

• Reliable inventory forecasting helps to keep supplies at optimal levels and saves company capital. With each new order, you will increase efficiency in managing and understanding your costs.

• PrintVis is built to ensure that every job, at any time, has someone designated as being the “current responsible” (from the Estimator to the Salesperson to the Production Coordinator to the Shop Floor Worker). - The system can be installed on your company's server or used in the cloud.

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