Material Management

Processes around supplying the required material in the right amount, quality and in time for production.

Procurement

Interfaces to material suppliers

Automatic reordering

Order-based procurement

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

Logistics

Material provision

Management of semi-finished products

Transportation

Physical transport including information to cost center

Temporary storage

Interim storage locations for materials and semi-finished products (pre-production)

Order picking

Consolidation of order parts/picking

Robotics

AMR - Autonomous Mobile Robots

AGV - Automatic Guided Vehicle

Printing Machine Robots

Postpress Robots

Warehouse Robots

Packaging Line

Creation of outer packaging, packaging of the printed product, printing of the carrier label, feeding to the carrier container

Storage

Material

Semi-finished products

Finished goods

Provided products

Order picking – e.g. supported with Pick by Light

Required functions:

Permanent inventory, reservations, threshold values,

Automated entry / exit booking for procurement / consumption,

Connection to Material Data Collection