Ultimate Packaging
The
Ultimate ERP Software for a Production Environment ! 
Ultimate Packaging manufacture high quality flexible packaging, produced primarily for the food sector. Ultimate have invested in a multi-million pound production facility which meets the very highest hygiene and environmental standards. Within that facility are state of the art 8 and 6 colour print presses, the output from which they supply to all the major supermarkets and blue chip food customers, producing printed bags, film on the reel, and other related products.
Ultimate Packaging had found that operating a number of disparate IT systems for production specifications, stock control, accounting and warehouse management was increasingly inefficient and was also out of synch with their culture of innovation and forward thinking. Since investing in de Facto S5, their new system has proved itself to be a powerful integrated solution which meets all their exacting requirements and has produced multiple business benefits.
To find out how de Facto S5 can benefit your business, Contact Us now on 01473 417 200 or Email Us.
Efficient
Production and General Data Storage
Having transferred all their data into one integrated system, the company has indeed seen great gains in efficiency. Information which often had to be re-keyed for each system now flows seamlessly between S5's modules, reducing data input time, and improving data integrity, relevancy and synchronisation.
Considerable further gains in efficiency arose out of De Facto's implementation of their 'extra fields' feature. Working with Ultimate, De Facto were able to define extra field tables to store their extremely detailed product specifications. Previously, variations in such things as date codes or packer codes led to a massive proliferation of Bills of Materials. In S5 however, this information is stored in user defined variables, with consequent gains in efficiency. The base description is stored once, and all the possible variations are kept within that same Bill of Materials. Again, all the highly detailed production documentation is printed out directly from S5.
Advanced
Warehouse Management Facilities
Prior to implementing S5, Ultimate managed their warehouse using a proprietary IT system which wasn't integrated with their other business systems. In contrast, with S5 warehouse management is fully integrated with all their other processes and functionality. Pallet tracking is enabled via pallet number, and all movements of pallets are processed using handheld devices. Pallet movements can be scheduled within S5 and appropriate instructions are produced for the forklift drivers.
Works orders are linked to pallet movements and the movement of raw materials to the print machines and then back again to storage after the production process is all controlled by de Facto S5. Hand helds are used to generate pallet moves using simple scans of bar codes on the pallet and on the storage rack.
Effective
Production Management and Quick Processes
The various stages of the production process are handled efficiently by de Facto S5. For a particular production run, the various raw materials necessary are allocated. Individual pallets containing those pallets are called to the print or conversion machines as required.
When each finished product pallet comes off production, various production quick processes are carried out on hand held devices. For example, quantities are recorded, and the location for storing the pallet is established, and the system generates a new pallet number.
The system downdates the raw materials, and updates finished products, whilst recording factors such as Scrap and Process Yields. Pallet labels are generated by S5 prior to the pallet going for despatch.
Powerful
Production, Financials and Logistics for Manufacturing Operations
Ultimate Packaging utilise their own and third party contracts for transport of their products. All aspects of distribution and Logistics are handled within S5, and tightly integrated with the control of both their Stock and of their Financials. Ultimate have realised many business benefits from the deployment of a single integrated ERP solution, and de Facto S5 has proved itself to be ideally suited to a production or manufacturing environment. Alongside the system, they have been impressed by De Facto's Implementation and Support services, both of which have matched Ultimate's guiding values of commitment and responsiveness to customer requirements. For a company which has seen dramatic growth over its 22 year history, Ultimate Packaging believe S5 to be the perfect foundation for their current and future business success!
To find out how de Facto S5 can benefit your business, Contact Us now on 01473 417 200 or Email Us.
Integration
of all data processes into one IT system has brought multiple business
benefits.
