The group "TARO!" automates production of operational printing

The Armex company completed implementation in Taro Print printing house of the automation system of production "1C: Operational printing 8".

Background

With growth of the customer base and the number of orders, the Taro Print printing house was faced the need of the most reliable assessment of cost value of the made products. To cope with the increasing flow of orders it was required to organize the system of fast and exact calculation of orders, their operational scheduling.

Part of these tasks was solved the solution "1C: Trade Management 8" finished under specifics of polygraphic production. But need to automate not only work with clients and orders, but also productive activity of printing house in a single system, led to the decision on transition to the industry software product "1C: Operational printing 8". It is developed on the same technology platform of 1C:Enterprise 8 and provides the functionality necessary for automation of productive activity of the medium-sized and small polygraphic enterprises.

Implementation was executed by specialists of Armex company.

Result

At office and on production of the small enterprise 10 jobs are automated. By means of this software product in "Taro Print" it was succeeded to resolve an issue of management of pricing on products and to automate calculation of production orders. Automation system "1C: Operational printing 8" allows to analyze in details all components of cost of end products, − as a result the company management can effectively manage production costs, optimize technology processes and offer clients competitive prices.

Details

Implementation automates the following sections of work:

• Pricing and management of product cost.

Thanks to regulation of all production processes of printing house, managers when calculating receive cost value of the order at a stage of its preliminary coordination with the client. The program considers a large number of technology processes including manual transactions. The management of printing house is sure that managers, using the automation system "1C: Operational printing 8", will not forget and "will not lose" any transaction, costs for which then will negatively affect final cost value of the order, at order placement.

• Calculation and management of polygraphic orders.

Calculation of polygraphic orders is completely automated now. If earlier in printing house all more or less difficult orders went at first to technologists to printing house to studying and study of technology process, then now need for it practically disappeared. With rare exception calculation and registration are performed at office of the company, and the ready process chart where all transactions are reflected goes to production. For acceleration of calculation of orders by managers the system of templates in which all technology transactions executed by printing house are considered is used.

• Management of warehouse stocks.

Automation of an inventory control allowed to monitor in real time availability of materials and to perform their reservation under the specific order. Technologists of printing house during the receiving and order placement in production see in a system that material is reserved and is in a warehouse.

• Document management.

Senior managers and heads of printing house obtain in electronic form data on the orders taken in production where all structure of the order is in details painted: material cost and works, all technology transactions. It gives the chance to completely control observance and an order of technology transactions and consequently excludes errors on production and defects. Thanks to the system of reports, the company management has an opportunity to quickly obtain data on different indicators of activity of the enterprise: to accomplishment of production plans, sales volume, receivables and payables, cash flows by different articles of accounting.

Opinion

Elena Yepifanova, commercial director of Taro Group LLC: "For us the most valuable in "1C: Operational printing" is a transparent pricing and an opportunity to keep track of cost value of our orders and, respectively, to manage the cost of finished goods. I consider that such problem as operational assessment of product cost, is inherent to all small enterprises, - at least, polygraphic which have rather big park of the different equipment. With "1C: Operational printing 8" to us is possible to keep track of structure of pricing, to understand how much is each transaction and as cost value forms. From here - reasonable management of all economy of production and competitive prices for our clients".