ERP Software for: The Print Industry

ERP Software for: The Print Industry

One Vision, One Mission, One Solution BREAKTHROUGH FLEXIBILITY Change is relentless. Resources are scarce. You have to do more with less. Your competition used to be across town, now they re across the ocean. Are you drowning in paperwork? Is this dragging you away from managing your business effectively? What keeps you up at night? SOFTWARE FOR: Shorter lead times Margins on shorter runs Time consuming Order Entry Changing print technologies Estimating Errors Reducing scrap and waste Press utilization Waiting for Proof Approvals Late financial information Web and Sheet Feed Offset Flexo Screen print Digital Cartons Bindery A flexible solutions to meet your business needs Direct Mail Packaging A PLATFORM TO GROW YOUR COMPANY Complete solutions from Estimating to Cash, Procure to Pay and Production / Inventory Management. As new printing technologies are introduced and your business changes, you can be confident that Seradex offers the power to adapt. No matter if you are printing labels, RFID tag, business cards, books, displays, brochures, packaging and forms, Seradex has a solution what will work with your processes and methodologies.

CEO Before Seradex, I didn t have access to the real time information I needed to run my business. Now I get all of the information anytime, anywhere. CEO s know that printing requires an information system that helps you execute. Seradex s Business Intelligence (BI) Module and Dashboards are simple but indispensable tools for every CEO with a 360 view of the whole business. STREAMLINE YOUR OPERATIONS Seradex OrderStream ERP is a modules base solution with over 50 software modules designed specifically for printers by printers. SALES MANAGER I needed a system to help me close more deals. Seradex provided that tool for me and my sales team Seradex gives the Sales Team the ability to create estimates based on a wide selection of products and services. The integrated CRM module helps you manage your accounts and win more business. SOLVE YOUR ESTIMATING AND ORDER ENTRY CHALLENGES Seradex OrderStream gives you the power to quickly create estimates and orders using a powerful rules based product configurator. Open the product wizard and enter quantities, size, paper, arrangement, color, plates, inks as well as pre and post press operations. Print great looking proposals and turn quotes into orders with a click of the mouse. Quantity breaks and discount levels Comparison of estimated to actual cost. Accurate promise dates based on job materials and press capacity Optimizes press and print process selection

CUSTOMER SERVICE Entering repeat orders and finding out the job status used to take hours every day now it is so simple - just a single mouse click. Seradex s CRM module now give me instant access to all customer information. CSR s are on the front line of delivering service. Seradex OrderStream has a wealth of tools to streamline the daily tasks of every CSR. Convert estimates to orders with one click Repeat jobs are just as easy. Order status, proof approvals, material availability and shipping instructions are instantly searchable. PURCHASING MANAGER I had no visibility on material requirements for upcoming jobs or real time inventory data. Now this information is at my fingertips. Seradex offers purchasing control to generate and track purchase orders from requirements, through PO issuance to receipts and invoicing. Automate reordering of stock inventory. Implement JIT production and monitor vendor quality and delivery performance. AUTOMATED WORKFLOW The demands for prepress and workflow automation are on the rise. Seradex can automate many of the time-consuming or repetitive content-related tasks that operators perform on a daily basis, resulting in a high productivity increase. Automated prepress workflow means that fewer hands touch a file, faster it goes through the shop. Your CSR s have real time access to the workflow information which saves them time and effort to manage each job. Seradex can increase productivity by automating many of the time-consuming and repetitive tasks that prepress operators perform on a daily basis. These tasks include: output generation for print or proofing applications, file generation (CIP3, CIP4, PDF,...), step & repeat automation, difference calculations (comparing two jobs for differences), warping distortions and trapping. Vector based PostScript or PDF data can put output to any printer, proofer, or platesetter. GET TRUE JOB COSTING Seradex integrates estimating and orders with actual production costs giving you all of the information you need to instantly review the profitability of every job. Compare your actual paper and substrates, inks and labor costs to the estimate.

PRODUCTION MANAGER Seradex eliminated late orders and now my customers are a lot happier. It used to be a real challenge trying to get all the orders out on time while dealing with missing components, changing delivery dates, customer supplied material and shipping and logistics. Seradex OrderStream is a powerful tool set at your fingertips. You can coordinate scheduling; purchasing and inventory. Synchronize suppliers and departments so assembly always has the components they need while keeping inventory under control. PRACTICAL SCHEDULING = ON TIME SHIPMENTS You can react quickly to potential bottlenecks by juggling orders, planning overtime and collaborating with your suppliers to ensure every customer receives their job when you promised. Seradex OrderStream gives you the option of TOC or Finite Scheduling methodology. ACCOUNTANT It used to take me 3 weeks to close off the month. All customer and supplier invoices had to be double entered into our accounting software. Seradex has eliminated all of that so I can spend my time actually managing important issues. IMPROVE QUALITY WITH ERP TOUCH Seradex is the first ERP software company to offer tablet based Data Collection for the production floor. Our touch screen enabled Shop Floor Module is simple and easy to use. IMPROVED CASH FLOW WITH ACCOUNTING INTEGRATION Seradex offers you a choice. powerful Seradex Financial Module or integration with a wide range of industry standard accounting products like Dynamics Great Plains, Sage ACCPAC, Business Vision, Peach Tree, MYOB, Simply or QuickBooks.

SHOP FLOOR SUPERVISOR It was chaos but now we have Seradex! SHIPPING AND RECEIVING No advance notice of incoming supplier shipments. Matching receipts to jobs was error prone. Generating packing slips and bills of lading was time consuming. Customer service was spending hours every week updating customers on ship dates and tracking numbers. PACKAGING AND FULFILMENT Seradex s integrated Shipping, and Fulfilment Modules enables you to quickly create shipments and get them to your customer on time. SUPERIOR COIL AND ROLL MANAGEMENT INVENTORY Seradex s gives you complete control over rolls and slitting. Roll stock is individually tracked by Too many rush purchase orders. Tracking coil Inventory is difficult Press stops due to material shortages. Frequent walks to the warehouse to verify stock levels. Re-ordering items because we can t locate on hand stock. Seradex has the ability to generate and Can t answer : Where is it and how much do we have? tion entry, inventory management and width, length, grade and vendor to give you a complete audit trail of usage and yield. PRODUCT BAR CODING print bar codes as required for transacproduct identification.

IT DEPARTMENT Seradex OrderStream is developed on the latest Microsoft Technology platform Microsoft.Net and Microsoft SQL. Server. This platform ensures you are not faced with expensive upgrades as your business grows and add staff. Seradex offers: Over 50 software modules for the print industry. Customizable by user, role and function. Integration with the latest version of MS Office Expand the database with User Defined Fields. Exclusive monthly web updates ensures you are always on the latest version. Unlimited user licensing options. Online customer support. PUT YOUR BUSINESS ONLINE Customer web portals are designed specifically for your business to address the challenges faced by the print industry today. As you move to shorter runs, quicker turns and complex products, automation becomes essential to profitability. The customizable, familiar and interactive Web experience provides your customers with a secure, easy to use web site. Seradex delivers a number of innovative web solutions to save time and money while increasing revenue and improving customer service. Seradex offers frequently updated content, easy-to-use file transfer, online quoting and ordering, order and ship status and many other utilities your customers and dealers are demanding - all of this at a fraction of the cost of building and maintaining a website on your own. GET LEAN Seradex has heavily supported the Lean Manufacturing journey undertaken by our customers. Seradex embraces kaizen, or continuous improvement, to eliminate waste in all business processes. Equipped with hands-on operations and implementation experience, our consultants show clients how to achieve measurable improvements from the front office to the shop floor and beyond as your entire organization learns to embrace the kaizen culture.

WHAT S NEXT FOR YOU BUSINESS? SCHEDULE A DAY IN THE LIFE DEMO TODAY A Seradex Day in the Life Demonstration The biggest mistake you can make when looking at new software is to allow the software supplier to use their own data for the demonstration. First, your employees will not be able to relate to the information flow and secondly this allows the software supplier to set up the data to showcase the system. Every company is unique and canned demonstrations and PowerPoint presentations just won t work. The unique approach that Seradex uses is to create a demonstration using your customers, items, suppliers and work centers. So we can show your team how to create an estimate or new order and take a tour through production, scheduling, purchasing, and costing right through to invoicing. The objective is to track one of your bread and butter products through a complete estimate to cash cycle. And we can review estimating, order entry, scheduling, purchasing, shipping, invoicing and collections. SERADEX CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS 3525 Mainway Drive Burlington, Ontario L7M 1A9 Tel: 905 332 5051 info@seradex.com