The Global Marketing printing house organized the effective system of calculation of orders and production management

The Global Marketing printing house completed implementation on the production of the software product "1C: Polygraphy 8". At the enterprise 80 jobs are automated, employees received the effective and reliable tool for calculation and planning of orders, and all control of productive activity of the enterprise is exercised in a single system now. A new system allowed printing house to take twice more orders.

Global Marketing — the large printing house working at the polygraphic market since 1999. Today the company takes the leading positions in the market of Moscow in the field of digital operational printing. The company aims to propose to the clients the complete solution of their marketing tasks, providing all range of services in the field of design and polygraphy — from implementation of the idea and creation of the model to printing and delivery of ready circulation. For this purpose, in the park of the enterprise eight digital and offset printing machines work, technologies of stencil and large-format process are used. The staff of printing house makes 120 people, the number of the processed orders — to 100 units a day.

The printing house always paid much attention to industrial automation. Earlier for this purpose used an information system of own development, but with business growth she ceased to cope with new tasks and the increased order amount. It was decided to implement an industrial system for industrial automation which would cover all fields of activity of management and accounting at the enterprise — beginning from acceptance, calculation and order placement, and finishing with shipment of finished goods.

Having considered different options of automation of the enterprise, the management Global Marketing made the choice for benefit of the software product "1C: Polygraphy 8" — the industry solution developed on the 1C:Enterprise 8 platform. Positive experience of its use at other polygraphic enterprises and support in the solution of industry specifics became the main arguments when choosing this solution. As the partner in automation the management of printing house selected the Armex company having wide experience on automation of the polygraphic enterprises.

As a result of implementation "1C: Polygraphies 8" in Global Marketing printing house, were automated by specialists of Armex company the following technology and business processes at the enterprise:

• Calculation and order management on a printed material;
• Pricing and management of cost value of orders;
• Purchase management;
• Management of polygraphic production;
• Management of a warehouse, deliveries, stocks;
• Work with customers;
• Document flow.

Automation of the enterprise allowed to achieve Global Marketing the following results:

• All production operations now normirovana on technology processes and items of equipment. Sales managers see actual cost of orders at a stage of their predesign, can estimate profitability of order fulfillment, and respectively flexibly manage pricing, offering clients the optimal prices on services and products;
• Automation of a system of calculation of orders on the basis of standard templates allowed to increase the speed of their calculation. Now at a customer appeal, managers of the company have an opportunity as fast as possible, during one telephone conversation, to approve the price with the customer;
• Automation of accounting of inventory items allowed to monitor existence and available volume of the supplies necessary for accomplishment of orders. "1C: The polygraphy 8" allows to reserve materials in a warehouse under the specific order. Data quickly come to service of supply which makes necessary decisions;
• The control system of production became more transparent: in printing house the cards of technology orders (in an electronic and printing form) accompanying each order at all stages of its accomplishment up to shipment automatically form. Using process charts scheduling and production planning is performed;
• Workflow automation allowed all employees having necessary access rights to obtain in real time all information on orders which are planned or are in production, about a stage of their accomplishment, about payment and shipment of orders to clients;
• Customers of printing house have an opportunity to check a status of the orders in the online mode via the website of printing house that unloads call center and managers. Thanks to it the efficiency of sales managers increases and the customer loyalty raises;
• Automation of a finished goods warehouse allowed to arrange work of a warehouse, to condense the diagram of loading of own and hired motor transport and couriers, to increase efficiency of the delivery service. The statement and execution of shipment documents happen in a single system of accounting and exclude repeated reconciliations between different departments;
• In the automation system "1C: The polygraphy 8" is provided an opportunity to create various reports with any extent of detailing. The company management received the convenient and modern tool for the daily analysis of activity of the company that allows to make necessary management decisions most quickly.

As a result of implementation the printing house could increase during the periods of seasonal loadings the number of the processed orders twice — from hundred to two hundred orders a day — and all this on the available production capacities.

Dobronravov Andrey, deputy CEO for development of Global Marketing Ltd: "The main objective which the management of printing house set for Armex company as the developer of the industry software product "1C: The polygraphy 8", consisted in the following: implement the universal solution which will ensure functioning of all personnel of printing house in a single system where all information necessary for it for work is available to each employee. And with implementation "1C: Polygraphies 8" we achieved it. A system provides uniform management and control of work of users. We have no double entry of data, employees execute the daily transactions without delays. The quantity of errors at the same time was sharply reduced — both in document flow, and at accomplishment of orders, – and this most important".