Commercial Printers are unique in today's manufacturing market given the pressures and stresses they face. From margin erosion to massive competition. Here are some special pain points in commercial print.

• Pressure to respond to ever increasing customer expectations.
• A growing number of small orders for digital and specialized work.
• Overseeing inventory and minimizing waste
• Ordering and managing subcontractors for specialized functions.
• Need for visibility of job costing and comparison of estimates to costs.
• Ever more requirements to streamline communication.
• Managing and coping with disruption and change as a day to day reality.

PrintVis is a print-centric, industry specific solution for Dynamics 365 Business Central designed with these pain points in mind. Over 20 years of industry experience has built a product designed for these challenges. Here are some benefits PrintVis offers.

• Integrated full featured and Hyper-Flexible estimating engine.
• Rapid order creation, copy and versioning.
• Shop floor data collection of time, material use and scrap.
• Quick and easy purchasing of materials and services.
• Job costing analysis reports built in, and detailed data for more sophisticated external analytics.
• Fully customizable workflow
• Paperless Job Tickets and Shop Floor system for real time updates

A lack of strong print MIS systems specifically built for the Label manufacturing segment just adds to the challenges in this unique business. Unlike Commercial Print, Label manufacturers have an entirely different set of needs and pain points.

• Modern customers requiring warehousing of finished goods at the printer.
• A growing diversity of product offerings by customers and therefore more products.
• Costly Tooling (mostly dies) which can be hard to track and coordinate.
• Requirements to purchase from master rolls, and optimize slit rolls from that master.
• A need to manage very similar inventory in warehouses and avoid mistakes.
• Unique workflows that don't quite fit into standard commercial print MIS.
• Customer pricing agreements and long term contracts to track.

PrintVis offers Label printers features and functions to achieve better efficiencies – built around its flagship estimating / product configurator but also including advanced tooling management and production scheduling/inventory control. Here are some benefits PrintVis offers Label Manufacturers.

• Full inventory and warehouse management right to the shelf level.
• Templated estimating and quoting capabilities and rapid CPQ (Configure/Price/Quote).
• Full out-of-the-box tooling management.
• Enhanced master roll purchasing (Sabre Label addon)
• Optional wireless barcode warehouse management from InsightWorks.
• Fully customizable workflow to suit any industry.
• Detailed finished goods pricing with price breaks and effectivity dates by customer, customer group or globally.

Whether producing signs, banners, POP displays, clings, decals ... the complexity of Wide Format is often not handled by traditional MIS solutions; and wide format specific solutions are extremely limited in what they support outside of basic quoting and estimating. These are some pain points in Wide Format.

• Customer demands result in many distinct items quoted together but shipped or delivered as kits.
• Complex estimating trying to calculate setup costs and tricky hand work.
• Delivery complexity with installers and/or services added to product.
• Many special finishing activities including sewing etc. are hard to estimate.
• Itemized and detailed quoting and ordering

PrintVis offers Wide format printers features and functions they need in their industry. Use of Sales Orders for smaller projects, or the full featured business central Jobs module for complex projects, PrintVis has many benefits in the Wide Format market.

• Templated estimating and quoting capabilities and rapid CPQ (Configure/Price/Quote).
• Use Jobs for larger projects such as signage or kitted product.
• Integrate Sales and Job lines with the PrintVis estimating module
• Fully customizable workflow to suit any industry.
• Mobile device access for field work
• Use Sales orders and Quotes to provide itemized ordering and quotes.

Depending on the type of packaging manufacturer and the type of raw materials they use, their pain points can be different. This list of pain points may not describe every issue occurring in your packaging manufacturing plant, but changes are at least a few of them keep you up at night:

• Modern customers demand warehousing of finished goods at the producer.
• A growing diversity of product offerings by customers and therefore more products.
• Requirements to purchase and keep many sizes substrate to minimize scrap.
• Long lead times on raw materials.
• Unique workflows that don't quite fit into standard commercial print MIS.
• Customer pricing agreements and long term contracts to track.
• Sequencing of the production schedule is essential to minimize make-ready time and maximize equipment utlization.

PrintVis offers packaging manufacturers features and functions to achieve better efficiencies – built around its flagship estimating / product configurator but also including advanced warehousing and scheduling,. Here are some benefits PrintVis offers Packaging Manufacturers.

• Full inventory and warehouse management right to the shelf level.
• Templated and hyper-flexible estimating and quoting capabilities.
• Multiple levels of grouping allowing optimization of production sequences at printing and finishing.
• Optional wireless barcode warehouse management from InsightWorks.
• Fully customizable workflow to suit any industry.
• Detailed finished goods pricing with price breaks and effectivity dates by customer, customer group or globally.