Amid the pressures of globalization and increasingly demanding customers, packaging and printing companies must stay on top of their manufacturing process with up-to-the-minute, work-in-process information. EFI Radius Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) can help you more efficiently manage your production planning, inventory control and manufacturing processes. Designed to assist in planning production jobs for standard products, it helps you adapt to ever-changing business requirements by recommending changes to meet new sales forecasts.
EFI Radius MRP is a highly customized solution for packaging companies with supply on demand contracts. It can enrich your manufacturing processes, helping you improve productivity, reduce costs and enhance customer satisfaction. When deployed with our fully integrated ERP/MIS system application, you'll obtain reliable data across your enterprise that will streamline your business processes to make it more competitive, responsive, and profitable.
The cornerstone of the solution is EFI Radius Master Estimate, which provides the method of creating new jobs and generating a bill of materials. Sales forecasts are compared against existing production jobs, allowing the system to recommend changes to job required dates and quantities, as well as the creation of new production jobs.
EFI Radius MRP helps our clients:
Import Customer Sales and Demand Forecasts: the EFI Radius X-Link programs provide for the import of forecasts from customers or internally produced spreadsheets.
Improve workflow: more accurately schedule and plan production and material requirements by analyzing current and future production requirements and the demand forecast.
Reduce inventory and WIP: the continual adjustment of production to demand and economic batch quantities provides helps to maintain just in time planning, providing production efficiency; minimizing both work in progress and finished inventory.
Speed up data entry: The automatic update of job required dates, adjustment of job quantities and creation of new production jobs minimizes data entry requirements.
Gain valuable insight into your manufacturing process: easily spot situations where capacity is short or long, to quickly resolve bottlenecks and shift production.