Industry Profiles: Printing and Graphic Arts Industry

Companies in the fast paced Graphics Arts industry must deliver fast turnarounds on quotations and jobs. The ability to quickly estimate accurate cost and pricing information based on multiple run quantities is crucial. The scheduling and costing systems must address setup and runtimes, sub contract operations and customer approval processes. Do you have difficulty managing your art department, presses, labour, inks, dyes and sheet stock? The ability to accurately calculate delivery promise dates at the time of quoting is required.

No matter what kind of printing you do, from digital to sheetfed to Web, Seradex has a business solution that will streamline your operations, give you better visibility into your costs and finances and increase your profitability. Seradex offers the industry’s best solutions to let you automate and integrate everything from estimating and costing to accounting, production management and more.

Seradex software includes functionality for data collection, costing, estimating, job ticketing as well as full financial accounting. This provides an end to end management information system to grow your business with.

For the challenges faced by the Graphic Arts Industry Seradex offers critical features:

• Increased productivity through all departments
• Track and close open quotes
• Link to Gold Mine for contact manage and improved sales force performance
• Easily compare quoted, planned and actual job costs
• Track actual material and labor costs
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks
• Identify under utilized presses and equipment and sell jobs to fill this capacity
• Copy previous jobs
• Labor Reporting integrates to Payroll system to calculate employee gross pay
• Create Docket forms and reports specifically suited to your requirements
• Compare operator performance to standards
• Calculate actual margins on every job
• Calculate sales commissions on every job
• Extensive and flexible Sales and Margin Analysis by Customer, Product, Territory and Sales Rep