Printed products and publishing
Printed editorial products management software
Among many others, the offset printing industry is one of the most complex and difficult to manage. Each product is different from any another doe to its size and features, but also for the raw materials used and the processing steps. Even the smallest difference can make a large variation in production costs.
In 2004 the building up of a software capable to create quotetions for self-adhesive labels printed in reels was commissioned to us. Because of the technology used within our client company (Windows, OSX, Linux), we decided to develop our software using the web technologies.
Our target was to create a management software that did not require installation, that could be able to update on its own, be used on any device and be ready for the technologies to come.
Gutenberg ERP was developed with the following goal: to minimize human intervention and errors.
Automatic quotation system for offset printing estimates production cost in few seconds and without technical skills.
Gutenberg ERP has a single powerful single customizable dashboard to control: job status in production, printing machines and staff efficiency, pre-press and marketing office efficiency and much more...
Main features
Quotations
- The estimator allows to easily compare production costs with different technologies and print formats.
- Quotations, calculations and estimate of the production costs of books, calendars, catalogs, magazines and products with offset printing or digital printing.
Sale orders
- Orders entry in manual or automatic mode via files in CSV, Excel or API format.
- Gerp checks delivery dates, estimated costs and stock availability.
- Automation of order confirmations sent by email and generation of production orders.
Production monitoring
- Data collection from the PC connected to the machine in manual or automatic mode (with industry 4.0 connected machines).
- The data collected are shown in real time on the dashboard used for job scheduling.
- Measurement of final balances in real time, collection of data in linear meters, machine strokes or pieces produced.
- Traceability of raw materials by supplier's barcode, oridentification labels of the batches in the warehouse.
Production planning
- Job planning with optimization by format, material, colors, type of binding.
- Automatic check of the delivery dates.
- Production alert for missing equipment (machinery, die cuts, raw materials, draft approval).
Warehouse charge and delivery of products
- When the final product is loaded into the warehouse the shipping office is noticed to proceed to prepare and issue transport documents.
- Automatic filing of transport documents with customer’s order number, production lot number, reel packaging data, certification data (eg. FSC certification).
- Management and enhancement of semi-finished products.
Final balance analysis
- Control and analysis of expected costs with actual data collection from the PC connected to the machine.
- The final balance analysis tool can correlate technical characteristics of products with customer orders, productions on a single machine or a specific format.
- It is possible to export all the data of the various reports in CSV format, compatible with Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice.
Checkout a sample dashboard
This week
Confirmed orders: 23
9.291,23 €
vs Same day last week
+4,2%
This week
Delivered orders: 27
+3 in advance13.119,12 €
vs Same day last week
+7,2%
This week
Machinery usage
79.9%
vs same day last month
+4,2%
12
orders
waiting for "Ok To Print" for more than 5 days
8
quotation request
waiting for more than 3 days
17
quotations
without answer for more than 10 days
Work in progress
Order n.312
CD Speedmaster n.1
Order n.302
CD Speedmaster n.2
Order n.299
Folding machine
Gutenberg ERP (also known as Gerp) is developed on LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySql / MariaDB, PHP) and maintained according to the state of the art for the Agile Software Developing, with frequent updates, quick modifications and customer request satisfaction. Our software house developes using a Subversion version control and PhpUnit and Jenkins automatic tests for updates on our trial server. Applications with billions of users like Facebook, Etsy and Yahoo! use the same technology.