The
premier package planning tool in use today and successfully
deployed
at over 50 major production facilities throughout North America, the
BURT PackagingManager™ gathers the necessary production information from
Circulation, Advertising, Transportation and Packaging, and represents the
missing piece in the packaging and distribution puzzle.
Key Benefits
Proven design
Full-featured functionality
Web-based access
Key Features
Circulation Interface
Circulation Draw is imported from any circulation system, down to the
carrier route level, through a standard file interchange specification, thus
allowing all functions to be performed with the most up-to-date circulation
quantities.
Order Entry
Central
to the system is the ability to record the precise zoning and routing
desired for inserts within a publication, even down to the carrier route level, for both
customer-supplied and press products.While ad zones are the norm, support exists for targeting individual
ad routes or for configuring alternate zones
that may be geographic or
demographic in nature.When targeting areas of distribution, ad
zones, alternate zones and
ad routes may be combined and defined as inclusions or exclusions to
satisfy the ever-evolving needs of the advertising customer.
Fill Priorities allow a customer’s preference for handling
variances in available preprint stock — either shortages or overages —
to be respected.In the event of insufficient preprint stock to satisfy the
routing, ad routes may be selectively targeted to not receive the preprint.In the event of a surplus, remainder zones or additional areas of
distribution may be targeted to receive the preprint, provided production
problems with the piece do not arise.
Package
Assignment
Allows an inserts distribution, or portion thereof, to be
assigned to the package
of your choice.
The sophisticated "Build Prepack by Zone" utility can make
creating even the most confusing Sunday package a snap.
Inventory & Receiving
Support for skid-level inventory of both incoming preprint stock and
completed product.
Support is included for rack storage systems.
Optional
support for radio-frequency, hand-held barcode readers is available and
allows inventory movement records to be generated so that the precise
location of an individual skid is known at all times.
Bundle & Unitizing
PackagingManager
calculates bundle sizes based upon established user-defined rules.The system calculates unitizing specifications (number of bundles per
skid, cart, etc.) and fully supports disparate loading units within an
individual package.
Production Planning Options
These configurable options allow the packaging process to be based upon
either expected preprint stock or actual on-hand inventory.Production may be prioritized by any or a combination of methods,
with the requirements allocated to the available shifts and machines
participating in the production plan.Restrictions,
be they preprint, truck, trip, product type, class of sale, etc., can be
expressed to ensure the proper assignment of production quantities to the
machines on the production plan.
Sample Packet Chart
Statistics
Statistics from Packaging, Production and Advertising perspectives are
preserved for historical reporting.Advertising
can easily track purchasing and volume trends over weeks, months and years.Packaging can see the cost and productivity information for any
inserting machine, shift, machine operator, package or publication.
Reports
The BURT System contains a plethora of standard reports that satisfy all
perspectives.
Reporting capabilities can be significantly enhanced by implementing the
optional BURT ReportManager
module which affords access to
all packaging, distribution and staffing data through state-of-the-art OLAP
tools.A complete business
intelligence toolkit, BURT ReportManager,is customizable and scalable and may be seamlessly integrated with other technologies such as
Lotus Notes® and Microsoft® BackOffice®.
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October 18, 2007
