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1. Supports estimate creation from existing estimate, pre defined templates, user defined hierarchical lists of products or from new using intelligent estimating.
2. Unlimited quantity support
3. Multi part and product estimating price for user defined pre press, press, post press, outwork and shipping processes for your manufacturing facility
4. Multiple manufacturing solutions sorted from cheapest to most expensive for your facility based on different material sizes, press options and either identical or different methods of working.
5. Support for versioning / types with different quantities entered either manually or via csv file import
6. Dynamically generated layouts calculated for the manufacturing solutions can have pre-defined overrides based on a preferred layouts for your facility by product type based on your own custom library
7. Detailed estimate breakdown detailing sequential process of manufacture defining time and materiality with individual based process spoilage and profiled setup and run speed profiling
8. Support for shipping profiled by vendor and service to a single or multiple designations in identical or different quantities and containers
9. Support for different quantities and versions per shipping destination.
10. Auto generated estimate narrative describing the estimate product that can optionally be manually altered or enriched from a user defined phrase book supporting drag'n'drop
11. Suggested pricing and cheapest pricing profiled based on Cost plus, Value Added, Contribution, Net Profit, Customer specific selling bands or Tiered Pricing for the estimate or processes of the estimate
12. Price to customer can be expressed in different units of measure, singles per 1000 and can display extra charges separately e.g. dies & cutters
13. Support for user defined categories to provide a granular breakdown of estimate material, labour & overhead costs
14. Support for consolidating multiple estimates into a single customer campaign or project price. Additional support to alter the campaign or project price to make pro rata changes to the estimates in the campaign
15. Email submission of a single estimate or campaign, or batch of estimates via popular email clients based on email templates
16. Support for linking of both JDF and Non-JDF digital attachments auto saved to network location in logical subfolders
17. Customer and attribute profiling using reference & user defined custom fields
18. Support for estimate and estimate part based notes and estimate tasks and audit

1. Support for multi-cell mailing projects with each cell supporting a separate project and mailing date (if required), mailing weight, enclosure size and specific notes
2. Each cell supporting the assignment of materials to be supplied by the customer, from your finished goods inventory and items to be manufactured
3. Each cell presenting a list of processes in logical groups for selection and entry of quantities tin order to generate line item pricing profiled to the specific customer that can only be override with appropriate access rights
4. Each cell process description can be altered to a required custom description
5. Additional processes can be copied from existing processes in list to define other line item services
6. Support for the selection of mailing service providers and services to generate mailing costs which can be profiled to be on a customer account and billed separately
7. Support for a list of processes in logical groups for selection at the estimate level in addition to the cell
8. Support for mailing specific description narrative
9. Support for specific estimate email templates to provide the customised line listing pricing

*Direct mail features only available with the Premium Plan

Job Management:

1. Create Sales Orders made up of both non-manufactured and manufactured items
2. Convert estimates and existing jobs into new jobs
3. Create blank jobs useful for agile projects that are billed by the hour e.g. design and artwork functions
4. Campaigns consisting of multiple jobs in series with job number suffixes detailing each job in the campaign
5. Create pre-shipping and shipping notes for jobs and external service shipping notes
6. Create Proforma and Job Invoices
7. Manual posting of labor, materials, external services, and shipping to jobs
8. Submit labor, overheads, and material costs from Tharstern Shop floor data collection terminals, and JDF feeds
9. Submission of Job JDF data to JDF controllers
10. Customer and attribute profiling using reference & user-defined custom fields
11. Jobs support prepayments
12. Jobs have a tabulated list of headlines estimated to actual costs and profitability with a drill-down feature to interrogate the granular detail for a job or series of jobs representing a project
13. Create multiple pre-shipping and shipping notes for jobs and external services to multiple destinations
14. Create an editable purchase requisition list for the material and external services required for the job
15. Access to all purchase orders and purchase invoices associated with the job
16. Access to all inventory transactions associated with the job
17. Visibility of the inventory locations of the raw materials, finished goods, and job parts associated with the job
18. Traceability of raw materials, packaging, and production associated with the job including batch numbers
19. Set key product due dates and achieved dates by job part to provide milestone updates
20. Create extra charges to be billed against a job during manufacture, either manually or automatically from shop floor data collection / JDF feeds
21. Support for multiple cycles of events with event detail to represent the proof, pass for press, external services, shipping, and general events. Extra charges can be associated with each event cycle for billing. Specific event types can also be used to create constraints on the job in scheduling to prevent the job from being planned too early e.g. prior to agreed pass of the press
22. Support for linking of both JDF and Non-JDF digital attachments auto-saved to a network location in logical subfolders
23. Create job notes, tasks, and audits
24. The output of documentation such as but not limited to job dockets, order acknowledgments, etc

Shipping:

1. Create a detailed list of each shipment with the ship by and arrival dates for every job, order, and external service vendor
2. The list can be personalized and support the creation of user-defined filters to present important client service data such as 'Jobs or external services to be shipped today.'
3. Consolidate shipping of multiple jobs or orders to a destination
4. Create ad hoc shipping notes
5. Create return shipments
6. Create shipping to consignment locations*
7. Define the weight, carton dimension, shipper, and shipping service to calculate the cost and sell price for the shipment
8. Define the settlement account e.g. our account, customer account, or recipient account
9. Log the consignment note number, proof of shipping, and general notes
10. Create  shipping notes, tasks, and audits
11. Create an email or printed documentation e.g. box labels, contents and shipping notes

*Requires Premium Plan

1. Detailed job requestions, purchase orders, and purchase invoice lists with personalised views and advanced search criteria
2. Create single or consolidated purchase orders by the vendor with single or multiple lines from job requestions
3. Raise purchase orders with single or multiple lines
4. Assignment of vendor or customer contact, shipping address, or free typed address per order
5. Assignment of due date per order or order line
6. Intuitive searching for defined SKU items with profiled general ledger codes and tax codes - that can be overridden
7. Automatically assign unit price based on profiling to specific SKU's - that can be manually overridden
8. Set the default unit of measure and pack quantities
9. Add details to SKU on purchase order lines
10. Set purchasing limits by the user when raising a purchase order
11. Set purchase authorisation limits to users profiled against user-defined products and services purchase
12. Create single or multiple authorisation levels based on user role
13. Make purchase status changes to track progress
14. Create purchase receipts
15. Create 'free of charge' purchase receipts
16. Set settlement figures and line discounting
17. Purchase invoicing either from individual purchases or consolidated purchases
18. Amend pricing, general ledger codes and tax profiling prior to posting
19. Create purchase order notes, tasks, and audits
20. Create an email or printed documentation

1. Auto-packing provides functionality within an estimate to automatically pack items into suitable carton or postal tube containers based on each SKU's dimensions and ability to be rolled

*Only available with the Premium Plan

1. Smart Shipping provides functionality to profile the number of transit days for a specific shipper and shipping service to ship to zip codes/postcodes from your facility. This can be used to determine ship by date for a shipment based on the required arrival date

*Only available with the Premium Plan

Every piece of manufacturing equipment can be costed and placed on the production board, including equipment located at multiple sites. Create as many virtual boards as you want, with different pieces of equipment on each, based on operator responsibilities or site location.

1. Gantt based capacity planning tool presenting resource capacity across a time window with a resolution of between 2 hours to 4 weeks, based on the selected zoom setting
2. Multiple scheduling boards
3. Decide if specific users have visibility and control of specific resources on the schedule
4. Control the resource list sequence on the scheduling board
5. Set up profiles for working overtime and maintenance periods per resource and apply temporary shift modifications
6. Apply resource efficiency to alter loaded time automatically to account for older, less efficient but identical resources
7. Create equivalent resources to allow the movement of job or job parts between identical or near-identical resources
8. Support for effort-based high labor dependant finishing resources to flex time, based on the number of personal
9. Create and apply filters to the unplanned job list to assist in the loading of a job or jobs to the schedule
10. Batch loading of job or job parts
11. Forward or reverse schedule based on the required date
12. The loaded operation job cascade obeys the dependency and times defined in the job i.e. a binding operation is not scheduled prior to a printing operation
13. Job operations represent times to the nearest whole minute
14. Up to five job labels can be applied to job operations - for job visibility e.g. Job number, customer, etc
15. Manually alter the setup and total time of individual job operations, apply delays, lags, overlaps, and split operations
16. Lock i.e. anchor job or job parts to the schedule
17. Define a job, job part, or operation to span overtime periods
18. Drag'n'drop loaded job, job part or operations loaded to the schedule to different locations on the schedule
19. Default changes in the color of job operations to denote important workflow stages such as substrates order received and the job is ready for manufacture
20. Enhanced color changes and user-defined granular control of workflow stages using milestone status'
21. Intuitive filtering and searching of the scheduling board, unplanned and planned lists to locate jobs
22. Identify late operations
23. The output of printed work to lists for each or a specific scheduling resource
24. Submission of work to list to Tharstern shop floor data collection
25. Near real-time operation updates from Tharstern shop floor data collection terminals
26. Real-time operation updates from linked JDF controllers

*Scheduling features only available with the Premium Plan

1. Enhanced purchasing and inventory functionality to record and track raw material batches from vendors upon receipt
2. Support the creation of user-defined production, inventory, and packaging containers with unique batch identification supported printed documentation and traceability reporting for printers in the packaging industry

*Traceability features only available with the Premium Plan

1. A detailed list of all raw materials, finished goods, and sundry SKU's stored in multi-location warehouses
2. Multiple SKU types with specific characteristics related to the function of the software
3. Manually create, copy and amend SKU codes
4. Update single and multiple SKU's estimating and purchase price by percentage amount or value
5. Import CSV files to create and update SKU's, estimate & purchase pricing and balances in specific bin locations
6. Multiple vendors and purchasing pricing per SKU using a variety of units of measure
7. Estimate tier-based price bands based on quantity required
8. Finished good quantity tier-based selling price bands optionally profiled to customers or groups
9. Customer profiled selling bands of SKU's
10. Choose different units of measure for estimates and purchases
11. Minimum lot purchases by pack, weight, and area
12. Minimum charges for SKU when estimating
13. Minimum purchase lead-times per SKU and vendor
14. Support for set and custom sizes per SKU
15. Grain direction
16. Restrict use of raw materials to digital or non-digital devices or to specific devices
17. Geometry of SKU's such as but not limited to depth, width, thickness, and weight per unit and pack
18. Support for minimum re-order levels and quantities
19. Summary per SKU of in-stock, allocated, unallocated, purchase, and projected inventory balances
20. Financial average and the total value of SKU inventory value
21. Support for FSC and PEFC certification
22. Assign sales and purchase general ledger nominals and additional financial profiling based on financial package integration
23. Support for SKU expiry and profiling suggested alternatives
24. Support for user-defined profiling of SKU's for searching and reporting purposes
25. Granular and filterable complete transactional history per SKU
26. Multi-level Bill of Materials linked to SKU
27. SKU expiry and profiling suggested alternatives
28. Balance and financial value per SKU and inventory location
29. Allocation, unallocation, issue, return, receipt and adjustment of SKU's
30. Inventory anomalies reporting when linked to mobile inventory
31. Summary of inventory by multi-level warehouse supporting up to 7 dimensions or SKU detailing location
32. Export of the inventory lists to a CSV or excel file format
33. Inventory reporting
34. SKU notes, tasks, and audits
35. Assign digital assets per SKU

*Inventory features only available with the Premium Plan

1. A detailed list of sales orders raised with allocation and order status' at Sales Order and Sales Order Line level
2. Manual creation of single or multi-line sales orders
3. Automatic creation of single or multi-line sales orders via cXML or API calls (integration module required) from external storefront systems
4. Set shipping addresses, contacts, order references, and due dates
5. Overriding SKU description, unit price, general ledger codes, and weight
6. Adding and removing SKU's that can either be purchased by all customers and those that are specifically profiled to the customer
7. Produce picking and packing lists
8. Sales Order reporting
9. Create Sales Order notes, tasks, and audits
10. Assign digital assets per order
11. View inventory balance, allocations, unallocations, WIP, projected stock balances by SKU
12. Assign and create physical pick lists to a single or multiple operators
13. Operators can pick SKU's from inventory to fulfill picking lists
14. View and filter Picking and Packing summary as picking, packing and shipping takes place

*Fulfilment features only available with the Premium Plan

1. Detailed shipping and returns a list of each pre-ship and ship to each designation with the ship by and arrival dates for every job, order, and external service vendor
2. The list can be personalized and support the creation of user-defined filters to present important client service data such as 'Jobs or external services to be shipped today'
3. Create shipping notes from pre-ships of jobs & external services and orders to a specific destination with a ship by and arrival date
4. Consolidated shipping of multiple jobs or orders to a destination
5. Ad hoc creation of shipping notes
6. Create return shipments
7. Create a collection of shipping notes
8. Create shipping to consignment locations (only available on Premium Plan)
9. Define the weight, carton dimension, shipper, and shipping service to calculate the cost and sell price for the shipment
10. Define the settlement account e.g. our account, customer account, or recipient account
11. Log the consignment note number, proof of shipping, and general notes
12. Create shipping notes, tasks, and audits
13. Create emails or printed documentation e.g. box labels, contents and shipping notes

1. Auto-Packing provides functionality within an estimate to automatically pack items into suitable carton or postal tube containers based on each SKU's dimensions and ability to be rolled

*Only available with the Premium Plan

1. Smart Shipping provides functionality to profile the number of transit days for a specific shipper and shipping service to ship to zip codes/postcodes from your facility. This can be used to determine ship by date for a shipment based on the required arrival date

*Only available with the Premium Plan

1. Raise single or consolidated Sales Invoiced and Credit Notes (Credit Meno's)
2. Raise Proforma Invoices
3. Alter the default description, quantity, unit price or value of line, tax & general ledger codes of the invoice/credit note (Credit Memo)
4. Addition or removal of extra charges
5. Amend invoice/credit notes
6. Print and email invoice and credit notes (credit Meno's)
7. Raise single or consolidated Purchase Invoiced and Purchase Credits
8. Alter the default description, quantity, unit price or value of line, tax & general ledger codes of the invoice/purchase credit
9. Profile purchase order limits per order by user
10. Entry of vendor invoice number and references
11. Support for settlement and line discounting

1. Detailed job requestions, purchase orders, and purchase invoice lists with personalized views and advanced search criteria
2. Create single or consolidated purchase orders by the vendor with single or multiple lines from job requestions
3. Raise purchase orders with single or multiple lines
4. Assignment of vendor or customer contact, shipping address, or free typed address per order
5. Assignment of due date per order or order line
6. Intuitive searching for defined SKU items with profiled general ledger codes and tax codes - that can be overridden
7. Automatically assign unit price based on profiling to specific SKU's - that can be manually overridden
8. Set the default unit of measure and pack quantities
9. Add details to SKU on purchase order lines
10. Set purchasing limits by the user when raising a purchase order
11. Set purchase authorization limits to users profiled against user-defined products and services purchase
12. Create single or multiple authorization levels based on user role
13. Make purchase status changes to track progress
14. Create purchase receipts
15. Create 'free of charge' purchase receipts
16. Set settlement figures and line discounting
17. Purchase invoicing either from individual purchases or consolidated purchases
18. Amend pricing, general ledger codes, and tax profiling prior to posting
19. Create purchase order notes, tasks, and audits
20. Create an email or printed documentation