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Printplus DRUCK
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For processes without departmental boundaries, your employees can respond flexibly to customer requirements at any time and save a lot of time in processing. The Management Cockpit visualises the company's results graphically and the daily key figures support you in your decisions.
With the order release, the system reports the requirements, compares them with the available stocks and calculates the order quantity. You send the order to the supplier automatically via the interface. Price enquiries, availability checks, orders and the incoming invoicing take place directly system to system, Industry 4.0 live.
3 minutes from the request to the offer being sent. With the calculation, you safely calculate the costs for offers and target values for the job description, production planning and material purchasing in one step. The quick info reminds you of important tasks and is the entry point for processing.
Planners, you are the control centre of the company. You need information from all departments. Information from order processing, material availability and the current production status are clearly visualised in the planning. Do you have to respond to many order changes at short notice? The dynamic production planning calculates a set-up time-optimised production plan for you with the customer deadlines and available resources.
Delivering the right packages to the right place at the right time. With the clear lists, you can plan the delivery safely and without gaps. In addition, monitor the delivery of materials and make them available to production in good time. If your suppliers label the pallets with a barcode, you take care of the complete warehouse management directly on a handheld mobile computer.
With Printplus DRUCK, you can keep an eye on all offers. The start screen shows you the follow-up list and is the entry point to the customer history. Equipped with all the important information, you will make a competent impression on your meeting partner.
Printplus DRUCK, the innovative industry software
A business management oriented management tool for a wide variety of companies in the graphic arts industry. With Printplus DRUCK you take care of all business processes and benefit from the perfect interaction of the individual modules. You get excellent organisation: powerful, service-oriented and performance-optimized.
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With the app, you can quickly access the most important information about your partners even when you are on the move and directly enter new addresses, contact persons or even visit reports. Use of the app is free of charge. It can also be used offline without Printplus DRUCK. With the integrated mode of operation with Printplus DRUCK or Printplus VERLAG, the changed data is automatically synchronised between your mobile phone, tablet and the company database. More information to the Printplus Mobile app
If you use your notebook/laptop with a Windows operating system on the move, you use a local installation of Printplus DRUCK. With the database comparison provided by Printplus, you automatically update the different databases as soon as the network is available.
The alternative to local installation is remote desktop access. With these terminal server solutions from Citrix or Microsoft, you can work on the move with the same performance as in the internal network, despite limited data transmission. Working without an internet connection is not possible with this variant. You do not have to maintain external installations and databases for this, and all functions of Printplus DRUCK can be used.
For almost 20 years, users have been able to build their individual web shop with the print shop portal.
Starting with isolated installations, almost every Printplus user now offers their customers a web shop. The web shop integrated in Printplus DRUCK, the print shop portal, is comparable to a conventional shop. The entrance is the shop window with the clearly arranged product presentation. You provide the selection to your customers. There are no limits to the variety. Offer customers stocked products, finished by them, designed with web-to-print editors or even rental products. At the Printplus AKADEMIE we will present to you which business ideas you can implement with these functions in the one-day course "This is how easy it is to get to the web shop".
With its responsive design, the print shop portal automatically adapts to different screen sizes without any additional programming. With the print shop portal you maintain and manage any number of individual shops in the established Printplus DRUCK in a central installation. Within the shop you map the corporate structure of your customer with the branches, departments/groups and users. Dynamic filters simplify item selection for the user. Only those criteria are displayed for which articles are also available in the customer's shop. With the simple ordering process in the modern one-page design, the user defines the delivery and payment instructions and completes his order.
Thanks to the deep integration in Printplus DRUCK, the orders are transferred directly to the order management and directly to production without manual intervention. Of course, as with conventional orders, the material requirements are registered in purchasing and the production capacities in production planning. The delivery note and invoice data are read out from the delivery and invoice information and transferred to the internal company processes.
The battle for orders is getting harder. Users tell us: "Our customers are setting ever tighter deadlines for submitting bids and are increasingly deciding on the price as the first step."
With Printplus DRUCK you choose a tool for a fast turnaround. In three minutes the offer for standard products is sent to the interested party by e-mail. The entire offer process is handled from one module without having to start different programs.
Directly from the order creation you can access the information from the IVIS and evaluate the interested party. You can create the cost calculation quickly and safely with the calculation assistant. The various plausibility checks verify the entries and only provide the technically possible production routes for selection. For the material prices, access the stored price lists or check the prices online with the suppliers. The product description for the offer text is prepared automatically with the selection of the calculation modules. Once the costs have been calculated, define the sales price on the basis of the contribution margin calculation or use the price level stored at the address and accept the price suggestion. For the preparation of the document, we rely on Microsoft Word. This enables us to also provide you with a function for the automated dispatch of e-mails. E-mail address and salutation, including personal ones, are pulled directly from the CRM tool IVIS. For monitoring purposes, define follow-up activities in the step-by-step sales plan. These are automatically prepared with the document output and are displayed to the defined employee in the task list.
Thanks to the common database of the offer management and the IVIS, the user can access all offer data and documents during follow-up. On the other hand, the follow-up activities are also visible in the offer management. Making, distributing and tracking copies is no longer necessary.
If you work in the sales force, you can also access the data while on the move. Convince your prospect of the offer, set the status to ordered. Your colleagues in the back office are shown the order in the task list for further processing. We offer various technical solutions for working on the move. (see Working on the move)
Social media has changed the way we work with customers and suppliers.
For the ideal support of your partners, you need more than just addresses and contacts. With the CRM tool IVIS (Integrated Sales and Information System) integrated in Printplus DRUCK, you have all the information you need immediately available when you are in contact with partners. This enables you to answer questions about current orders or open offers quickly and competently. These are listed for you in the personal entry screen for direct editing. With Outlook integration, you can conveniently link all e-mail communications with customers, suppliers or even orders. All authorised users can access the information without searching. Tasks, deadlines and addresses are also automatically synchronised between Printplus IVIS and Microsoft Outlook.
With the marketing campaigns, you can flexibly define the desired customer groups and inform them with serial letters or also serial e-mails. You specifically monitor the success of the campaign with the follow-up actions.
If your company also sells newspaper and magazine advertisements, Printplus VERLAG and Printplus DRUCK can access the identical address master data. You manage the complete customer history with access to key figures from both divisions in one sales system.
Use the added value of the available information and impress in contact with your partners.
For the order processing, you take over the preliminary work of the offer preparation 1:1, all information already entered is retained.
Ideally, you only need to add the key dates to the offer and create the production order with one click. Directly from the production order, you can open the electronic job description and check the contents. Only when the production order is approved is the data transferred from the system to production planning and material purchasing. New orders are clearly displayed in the task list for the planner and purchaser.
"On average, our orders are changed up to 7 times", one manager told us. The software supports this delicate process with its own workflow. To change, orders are set to the status "Correction" and thus blocked for production. The job can only be started after approval. Accesses to the job description are also logged and visualised for the order processor.
Each employee has their own job description. Different types of job descriptions are available for the individual departments. Each employee is provided with his or her information, which increases the overview and simplifies reading. Production employees start the activity recording for the post-calculation directly from the electronic job description. All information, such as order number, cost centre, work process and time are automatically transferred. Incorrectly recorded data is reduced, the quality of the data is increased and the effort is reduced. The continuously recorded data is displayed directly in the order tracking. As an order processor, you have access to the current status at all times and can answer customer enquiries directly without having to ask questions.
In production planning, the orders are displayed as bars in a graphical Gantt view consisting of a timeline and cost centres.
Connecting lines from bar to bar visualise the order flow. Violated deadlines, production sequences that have not been adhered to and double occupancies are colour-coded and clearly listed. New approved orders are displayed in the task list and scheduled automatically. If the order processor changes a scheduled order, it automatically appears in the task area "in correction". When the adaptation is completed, the change is visualised and placed in the previous positions. You always have an overview of all orders, including short-term adaptations.
If you schedule similar orders one after the other, the setup times are automatically adjusted by the setup time optimisation. If you undo the optimized sequence again for a rush job, the setup times are automatically reinserted. The production plan automatically maps the correct planned times.
The various pictograms give you a quick overview. A black house symbol indicates a sufficient stock level of the necessary material, a white one indicates missing material. In addition, the material history shows you the current balance of the article, and you can plan production without having to consult the purchasing department. Further info areas provide you with comprehensive information about the order.
If you use dynamic production planning, a special mathematical algorithm supports you in planning. This creates a producible production plan for all orders, taking into account various parameters. Order deadlines such as print approval, data availability and delivery date, the production sequence within the order, the utilisation of the cost centres are decisive. In addition, dynamic production planning sorts the orders at the cost centres into an optimum sequence. Setup times are optimized, new orders and last-minute postponements are accepted and placed within minutes.
Warehousing ties up capital and occupies storage space.
Printplus DRUCK's material purchasing supports you in optimal purchasing. All material requirements are automatically displayed in the graphic view. In the temporal grid, the requirements are aligned with the production date. The system immediately shows you changed deadlines, quantities and articles in a separate area.
Different pictograms give you a quick overview. A black house symbol indicates a sufficient stock level of the necessary material, a white one indicates missing material. In addition, the material history shows you the current balance of the article. With the filters you reduce the view with one click to the articles with insufficient stock level. The system automatically generates an order proposal for these articles. The calculation takes into account the print deadline, the supplier's delivery deadlines, minimum/maximum order quantities and minimum stock levels.
The prepared orders can be sent directly from the system to your suppliers. Thanks to the XML file supplied, suppliers can automatically transfer the order into the system. Thanks to the partnership with the most important suppliers, you receive automated price list files from them.
If you count SAPPI and Papyrus among your suppliers, you can benefit from new system-to-system processes. The current prices and availability can already be digitally queried from the calculation. In the ordering process, the order is completed by an automated confirmation. Changed deadlines, quantities and articles are also automatically transmitted to Papyrus. The automated receipt of supplier invoices in the ZUGFeRD standard is prepared by Printplus. Save time and increase security with the automated processes.
No matter whether your warehouse is the print room or a high rack with thousands of spaces. With Printplus DRUCK, we support all working methods from manual capture to working with barcodes and scanners.
Logistics does not only include the provision of raw materials and inserts. They also organise the transport of partial products from cost centre to cost centre or to the service provider. The work instructions are communicated with the batch flags, which are printed out directly coupled with the performance recording. If you use the barcode scanners, the tasks are calculated dynamically and displayed on the mobile computer in a prioritised manner. Production interruptions due to a lack of material are a thing of the past.
To simplify stock postings, the reserved materials are automatically debited and charged to the order with service entry. Only excess quantities have to be recorded manually and documented for controlling.
Customers are increasingly asking for deliveries on different dates to different addresses in different packaging variants.
The deliveries are often supplemented with delivered or pre-produced products from the warehouse. With the dispatch assistant and the flexible import function, you can also safely administer complex delivery distributors with hundreds of addresses and a wide variety of products.
Do you use the web shop? Then your customers can enter and order the delivery specifications and imprints directly via the campaign manager. You automatically import the captured data into the production order and the delivery specifications. It couldn't be any more convenient and clear. For you and your customers.
Just as flexible as the deliveries, you need to be able to create invoices for your customers. Splitting a partial quantity to different recipients or per delivery country is quickly done with Printplus DRUCK.
In addition, additional costs and auto corrections are charged to the customer with the invoice. The integrated process for auto corrections automatically lists the entered items in the invoice. You only set the amount for the recorded costs. Of course, the item is automatically printed on the invoice document with a comprehensive description. This reduces the queries from your customers about the additional costs.
The integrated open item administration or various interfaces to accounting systems are available to you for controlling payments. Find out more under "Partners/Technology partner".
Printplus has been relying on interfaces for 30 years. As a user, you benefit from this experience when using the interfaces to the production systems.
Using JDF, the system transfers the complete order data to the prepress system, which automatically processes the imposition data. We receive the JMF message automatically from the platesetter. Printplus DRUCK uses this data to visualise the job status in production planning and automatically creates the day slips for post calculation. Other machines, such as printing presses or saddle stitchers use the JDF data for presetting the press and also supply the data for post calculation.
The list of "Partners/Technology Partners" shows you the partners with implemented integration projects. Take advantage of the flexibility of Printplus DRUCK and integrate the partners that suit your company into the system.
Industry 4.0 aims to integrate industrial production with modern information and communication technologies. Printplus has been following this approach for some time, and we summarise it as "recorded once is enough".
Even recording once is not always necessary. If you receive structured data from your customers, you can use it in Printplus DRUCK for automated order creation and all other process steps. The system creates the order, calculates the costs, prepares the job description and creates the delivery notes and invoices. Documents are printed out directly or sent as a PDF document by e-mail, as desired. Material requirement slips, data for production planning and the JDF data for the production machines are also prepared automatically.
You can schedule the created orders automatically. The calculation takes into account the key dates of the orders and reduces the setup times through a clever order sequence. A complex task that is completed by the system within a few minutes.
The integration of sPrint One from PerfectPattern enables the fast and cost-optimized compilation of gang-runs for commercial printing or large format printing. Printplus DRUCK optimally supports the user in all process steps in the handling of gang-runs. Despite partial production in gang-runs, production planning monitors the production sequence. In material purchasing, the individual orders are automatically replaced by the collected printed sheet. For the labelling of individual orders, stacking cards are automatically created for the individual products when the gang-run is separated, and ensure the production quality.
The intelligent suggestion system in the calculation is completely new. Instead of a lot of master data that has to be laboriously maintained, the system learns from your input and continuously improves the suggestions. Thanks to artificial intelligence, the calculation costing is reduced. Recurring specialities of customers are automatically recognised. Throughput time is further reduced due to system-to-system integration through automatically updated paper prices.
Through mergers and cooperations you change the corporate structures. Printplus DRUCK offers the necessary functions for efficient order processing, even in corporate structures.
You independently define and update different languages for communication with the customer and system operation. In addition to foreign currencies for order processing, you can assign currencies to each client. The client currency is used for the evaluation and the transfer to financial accounting. In addition, a group currency is defined for the consolidated evaluation across all clients.
If required, you can also define the client administration for production planning and material purchasing. The respective cost centres and storage locations are assigned to the clients, and access is controlled accordingly in the common database. For each client, you can assess inventory stocks with the respective currency or consolidated in the group currency without additional effort.
If orders use production resources from different clients, only one order needs to be created. An order, or even a calculation, can include cost centres from different remits. For internal invoicing, we have implemented different approaches with our customers. Some create internal invoices and charge "market prices", others charge each other for operating performance on the basis of production costs. You can also benefit from our experience.
For the handling of gang-runs, Printplus DRUCK offers many benefits. Thanks to a completely integrated processes from calculation to planning, material purchasing to invoicing and post calculation.
The calculator marks orders or individual sheet parts for production in collect production. Grouped according to material, approval date and finishing variants, the sheet parts for compiling the gang-runs are displayed. These are created manually using drag & drop or automatically with PerfectPattern sPrint One. PerfectPattern's algorithm takes into account various parameters as well as the ratio of setup costs and material consumption. Production times and material resources are used much more economically. The transfer of the created gang-run to order management, production planning, material purchasing and to the job description is automated. The references to the individual orders and the pallet slips per order ensure quality and guarantee a clear overview. In the background, the system distributes the recorded actual costs to the individual orders using the automatically calculated key. Without additional effort, you evaluate the commercial success of the gang-run or the individual customer orders.
Use the potential from the interaction of Printplus DRUCK and PerfectPattern and preserve your company's resources.
For the operation of Printplus DRUCK, we rely on the standard products from Microsoft. These are already used in many companies, which means you do not have to build a new system environment.
The Windows server operating system is the basis for the installation of the Microsoft SQL database and Exchange for e-mail exchange. We rely on the Internet Information Server (IIS) for the print shop portal and operating data recording. The services for central tasks are programmed on a 64-bit basis.
You can provide the server installation at your premises on your own servers. Some users rely on outsourced server installations with a provider, or they rely on Microsoft Azure cloud services.
For the clients, we also rely on Microsoft standards. We recommend Microsoft Windows 10 as the operating system, Outlook for e-mail communication and Microsoft Word for preparing documents. The print shop portal and operating data recording are started in the browser. As a browser, we recommend Edge or IE from Microsoft. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, we guarantee that Printplus DRUCK and Printplus VERLAG are approved for the latest versions of Microsoft programs.
Printplus Opto-Calculator - wie viel sparen Sie? how much can you save? Calculate the savings potential of your print shop directly and easily. www.printplus.ch/opto-rechner
For processes without departmental boundaries, your employees can respond flexibly to customer requirements at any time and save a lot of time in processing. The Management Cockpit visualises the company's results graphically and the daily key figures support you in your decisions.
With the order release, the system reports the requirements, compares them with the available stocks and calculates the order quantity. You send the order to the supplier automatically via the interface. Price enquiries, availability checks, orders and the incoming invoicing take place directly system to system, Industry 4.0 live.
3 minutes from the request to the offer being sent. With the calculation, you safely calculate the costs for offers and target values for the job description, production planning and material purchasing in one step. The quick info reminds you of important tasks and is the entry point for processing.
Planners, you are the control centre of the company. You need information from all departments. Information from order processing, material availability and the current production status are clearly visualised in the planning. Do you have to respond to many order changes at short notice? The dynamic production planning calculates a set-up time-optimised production plan for you with the customer deadlines and available resources.
Delivering the right packages to the right place at the right time. With the clear lists, you can plan the delivery safely and without gaps. In addition, monitor the delivery of materials and make them available to production in good time. If your suppliers label the pallets with a barcode, you take care of the complete warehouse management directly on a handheld mobile computer.
With Printplus DRUCK, you can keep an eye on all offers. The start screen shows you the follow-up list and is the entry point to the customer history. Equipped with all the important information, you will make a competent impression on your meeting partner.