Tharstern Desktop

Premium Plan

Our Premium Plan takes your business operations to the next level with advanced features for creating an automated workflow. In addition to everything included in the Standard Plan, the Premium Plan offers a suite of tools to streamline your CRM and marketing efforts, manage direct mail campaigns, optimize order management and scheduling, and enhance your inventory management capabilities. Plus, with advanced features like warehousing and fulfillment, smart shipping, auto packing, and traceability, you can be sure that your operations are running at peak efficiency.

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ePS Tharstern Desktop Software Features
Standard features included in the Premium Plan:

Estimating

An estimating engine dedicated to print, packaging, and graphic arts that helps you select the best option for your business, your customer and your profits! You can use the intelligent estimating logic of our MIS to quickly compare production solutions and be presented with a list of the most viable manufacturing options, associated costs, and suggested selling prices. Choose the price recommended by the MIS software or select your own – the choice is yours!

A sophisticated set of algorithms are at work behind the scenes, meaning you can generate more estimates, more quickly, and amend existing ones at the click of a button. 
A sophisticated set of algorithms are at work behind the scenes, meaning you can generate more estimates, more quickly, and amend existing ones at the click of a button.
Create one estimate and get multiple solutions.  
Create one estimate and get multiple solutions.
Compare costs and pricing between all th available materials and methods of production (e.g. offset litho vs digital presses, or flatbed vs reel fed, or screen vs digital etc).  
Compare costs and pricing between all th available materials and methods of production (e.g. offset litho vs digital presses, or flatbed vs reel fed, or screen vs digital etc).
The estimating engine uses pre-defined product types and production routes to create estimates, which removes the guesswork out of estimating and keeps pricing consistent. 
The estimating engine uses pre-defined product types and production routes to create estimates, which removes the guesswork out of estimating and keeps pricing consistent.
Using a simple and intuitive interface, estimators run through a predefined checklist of options for a chosen product, so even staff with limited print production knowledge can create complex quotes. 
Using a simple and intuitive interface, estimators run through a predefined checklist of options for a chosen product, so even staff with limited print production knowledge can create complex quotes.
Use the estimate importer tool to automatically create estimates for entire projects from imported spreadsheets/CSV files. 
Use the estimate importer tool to automatically create estimates for entire projects from imported spreadsheets/CSV files.
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ePS Tharstern RFQs (Request for Quote)

Request for Quote

Allow your customers or internal CSR team to request quotes quickly and easily from your estimators.

CSRs can use the MIS system to request quotes from estimators.
CSRs can use the MIS system to request quotes from estimators.
RFQs can be created by customers using online storefront software and sent automatically into the MIS system
RFQs can be created by customers using online storefront software and sent automatically into the MIS system
Customers can also raise an RFQ directly within the MIS system through a dedicated online portal.
Customers can also raise an RFQ directly within the MIS system through a dedicated online portal.
RFQs can be submitted directly from a website or other external sources using our API. (e.g. on a request for quote website page on your own website)
RFQs can be submitted directly from a website or other external sources using our API. (e.g. on a request for quote website page on your own website)
RFQs can be created remotely – no need to be in the office.
RFQs can be created remotely – no need to be in the office.

Job Presetting

Have your MIS automatically come up with the imposition layout that you would have selected manually.

(You may have seen this feature previously referred to as Layout Library.)

Allows you to create personalized impositions for those exceptions to the rule layouts that don’t follow standard behavior.
Allows you to create personalized impositions for those exceptions to the rule layouts that don’t follow standard behavior.
Control what signatures are required and exactly where they must be positioned on the sheet, as well as control whether they are flipped or rotated so you can specify the head direction and/or low folio position.
Control what signatures are required and exactly where they must be positioned on the sheet, as well as control whether they are flipped or rotated so you can specify the head direction and/or low folio position.
The finished size is agnostic, within tolerances, and so significantly minimizes the number of profiles required.
The finished size is agnostic, within tolerances, and so significantly minimizes the number of profiles required.
Communicates the imposition laydown to production and prepress workflows.
Communicates the imposition laydown to production and prepress workflows.
Independent signature positioning control allows for non-printable regions such as slow-down wheels and post-press requirements.
Independent signature positioning control allows for non-printable regions such as slow-down wheels and post-press requirements.
Teach your MIS which layout profiles you want to use in certain situations by assigning them product types and specifying other criteria that may change their suitability e.g. substrate, run length, orientation, grain direction, sheet size, and finished size.
Teach your MIS which layout profiles you want to use in certain situations by assigning them product types and specifying other criteria that may change their suitability e.g. substrate, run length, orientation, grain direction, sheet size, and finished size.
Job Presetting
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Web Portal

Allow your customers or CSRs to create quotes and track jobs on any smart device in any location.

Device responsive web portal for any smart device.
Device responsive web portal for any smart device.
Communicates with the core MIS system using an internet connection.
Communicates with the core MIS system using an internet connection.
View all estimates and jobs stored within the MIS, wherever you are.
View all estimates and jobs stored within the MIS, wherever you are.
View or create a quote while on-site with customers, and even convert it to an order while you’re there!
View or create a quote while on-site with customers, and even convert it to an order while you’re there!
Use our CRM and task management tools remotely.
Use our CRM and task management tools remotely.

Job Management

Communicates to the team everything they need to know about the job to get it out on time, while also capturing all the activities, costs, and status of the job from start to finish.

Displays all information about a job so your whole team can view shipping and billing information, material requirements and allocation, and status.
Displays all information about a job so your whole team can view shipping and billing information, material requirements and allocation, and status.
View actual vs estimated activities to evaluate profit or loss costing.
View actual vs estimated activities to evaluate profit or loss costing.
Takes care of automatic document creation for job tickets/works instructions, order acknowledgments, purchase invoices, box labels, shipping notes, extras, etc.
Takes care of automatic document creation for job tickets/works instructions, order acknowledgments, purchase invoices, box labels, shipping notes, extras, etc.
Sends automated customer updates for order acknowledgments, proof approval and shipping notifications. 
Sends automated customer updates for order acknowledgments, proof approval and shipping notifications.
Capture unexpected production extras/costs, giving you the ability to pass these on to the customer.
Capture unexpected production extras/costs, giving you the ability to pass these on to the customer.
Create product-specific production milestones so you can track critical date constraints within your organization and provide key timeline plans to your customer.
Create product-specific production milestones so you can track critical date constraints within your organization and provide key timeline plans to your customer.
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Shipping

Organize shipping from within your MIS, using our integrations to leading courier services. Your operators will be able to quote for and arrange shipments for orders without leaving the MIS.

Procurement

Ensure you’re utilizing existing stock, identify material shortfalls, and automatically initiate purchase orders for materials and outsourced items.

Purchases can be consolidated into single orders to take advantage of bulk buying pricing.
Purchases can be consolidated into single orders to take advantage of bulk buying pricing.
Assign spending limits to users for different types of purchased goods and services. When users reach their spending limits, future purchase orders are stopped until authorized.
Assign spending limits to users for different types of purchased goods and services. When users reach their spending limits, future purchase orders are stopped until authorized.
Ensure your material prices are up to date by automatically highlighting and updating prices when processing supplier invoices.
Ensure your material prices are up to date by automatically highlighting and updating prices when processing supplier invoices.
Import supplier CSV files to create and update raw material prices.
Import supplier CSV files to create and update raw material prices.
Use our integration to the Zaikio platform for instant access to Premier Paper’s catalog and stock levels from within the MIS.
Use our integration to the Zaikio platform for instant access to Premier Paper’s catalog and stock levels from within the MIS.
Enhance this functionality to automate and digitize purchase invoice processing through our integrations with Paperless Europe, V1, and Access Capture.
Enhance this functionality to automate and digitize purchase invoice processing through our integrations with Paperless Europe, V1, and Access Capture.
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Financials

Financials

Tharstern Desktop allows for the creation and customization of Sales and Purchase invoices, credit notes, and proforma invoices. It also allows for purchase order limits and vendor invoice number entries and includes support for settlement and line discounting.

Raise single or consolidated Sales Invoices and Credit Notes/Memos 
Raise single or consolidated Sales Invoices and Credit Notes/Memos
Raise Proforma Invoices
Raise Proforma Invoices
Alter the default description, quantity, unit price, or value of line, tax & general ledger codes of the Invoice or Credit Note/Memo 
Alter the default description, quantity, unit price, or value of line, tax & general ledger codes of the Invoice or Credit Note/Memo
Addition or removal of extra charges
Addition or removal of extra charges
Print and email Invoices and Credit Notes/Memos 
Print and email Invoices and Credit Notes/Memos
Raise single or consolidated Purchase Invoices and Purchase Credits
Raise single or consolidated Purchase Invoices and Purchase Credits
Alter the default description, quantity, unit price, or value of line, tax & general ledger codes of the invoice/purchase credit
Alter the default description, quantity, unit price, or value of line, tax & general ledger codes of the invoice/purchase credit
Profile purchase order limits per order by the user
Profile purchase order limits per order by the user
Entry of vendor invoice number and references
Entry of vendor invoice number and references
Support for settlement and line discounting
Support for settlement and line discounting

Business Intelligence & Reporting

Analyze the data in your MIS to identify trends and actionable insights, and use data visualizations to make these findings easier to understand and share.

No MIS system would be complete without all the tools you need for business reporting and forecasting. That’s why Tharstern Desktop comes with a set of management dashboards and a comprehensive library of business reports to give you the insights to analyze, understand and drive your business.

Using our integration with Microsoft Power BI, you can create easy-to-understand dashboards based on the data in your MIS. Create simple charts, or highly complex illustrations that instantly respond to changes in context. The choice is yours! 

Example dashboards include: 

Sales Forecast
Sales Forecast
Growth Share Matrix (BCG matrix)
Growth Share Matrix (BCG matrix)
Estimate Analysis
Estimate Analysis
OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)
OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)
OTIF (On-time In-full)
OTIF (On-time In-full)
Production WIP 
Production WIP
Sales Overview
Sales Overview
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Advanced features included in the Premium Plan:
ePS Tharstern CRM & Marketing

CRM & Marketing

A print-specific Customer Relationship Management tool that helps you to unify your sales and marketing teams (we call it ‘smarketing’!)

Extensive customer-centric views of all estimates, jobs, sales orders, tasks, and marketing campaigns relating to a contact or company.
Extensive customer-centric views of all estimates, jobs, sales orders, tasks, and marketing campaigns relating to a contact or company.
Profile your customers based on all the above and also on their activity with you e.g. profit margin, last order with you, etc.
Profile your customers based on all the above and also on their activity with you e.g. profit margin, last order with you, etc.
Create targeted marketing lists based on these profiles.
Create targeted marketing lists based on these profiles.
Identify which marketing campaigns worked and which didn’t, and which ones gave you the best ROI.
Identify which marketing campaigns worked and which didn’t, and which ones gave you the best ROI.
View prepayment balances.
View prepayment balances.
Use the task management features to ensure a follow-up is never missed.
Use the task management features to ensure a follow-up is never missed.
Integrate with Hubspot marketing software to further align your sales and marketing efforts and enhance your smarketing superpowers!
Integrate with Hubspot marketing software to further align your sales and marketing efforts and enhance your smarketing superpowers!

Direct Mail

The Tharstern Desktop Premium Plan provides a comprehensive solution for the Direct Mail sector, with specific estimating support. Each multi-cell mailing project is fully supported, with the ability to assign separate mailing dates, weights, enclosure sizes, and notes if required. You can add items to be manufactured, alongside items from the finished goods inventory, all from within the same platform.

Our Direct Mail features also allow you to select your preferred mailing service provider during the estimating process so that mailing costs can be accurately calculated at this stage. You can even profile these costs to a customer account to allow for separate billing.

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Order Management

Create a Sales Order manually or let our system do it automatically for you via a spreadsheet import or web-to-print storefront order. Our system is also able to handle orders from various external sources such as APIs and external procurement systems, making the process of managing repeat orders much more efficient.

Create an order for multiple products with individual delivery requirements and locations. 
Create an order for multiple products with individual delivery requirements and locations.
Sales Orders can be created for both manufactured and non-manufactured products as well as kits/packs/Bill of Materials.
Sales Orders can be created for both manufactured and non-manufactured products as well as kits/packs/Bill of Materials.
Provides a single point for order status, dispatch, and billing.
Provides a single point for order status, dispatch, and billing.
Auto creates a job for each item in the sales order.
Auto creates a job for each item in the sales order.
Customer and product-specific price lists for contract pricing.
Customer and product-specific price lists for contract pricing.
Option to extend the functionality for picking, packing, and shipping with our Mobile Inventory feature.
Option to extend the functionality for picking, packing, and shipping with our Mobile Inventory feature.
Supports sophisticated warehousing and kitting facilities.
Supports sophisticated warehousing and kitting facilities.

Scheduling

Get full control of production schedules throughout your workflow, allowing your team to manage delivery deadlines, optimize capacity and react to ever-changing demands and priorities. 

Increases transparency and visibility of production plans, job, and milestone progress from shopfloor data collection / JMF feeds and capabilities across the business.
Increases transparency and visibility of production plans, job, and milestone progress from shopfloor data collection / JMF feeds and capabilities across the business.
Manage delivery deadlines, optimize capacity and react to ever-changing demands.
Manage delivery deadlines, optimize capacity and react to ever-changing demands.
Create production snapshots to allow scenario planning in addition to 'what happened?' analysis.
Create production snapshots to allow scenario planning in addition to 'what happened?' analysis.
Create complex production shift patterns including overtime and machine maintenance schedules.
Create complex production shift patterns including overtime and machine maintenance schedules.
Using Shop Floor Capture devices, provides operators with work-to schedules. 
Using Shop Floor Capture devices, provides operators with work-to schedules.
Plan jobs forwards or reverse plans from the required date, highlighting jobs that are not going to meet their required production date.
Plan jobs forwards or reverse plans from the required date, highlighting jobs that are not going to meet their required production date.
Supports multiple scheduling boards allowing different or interconnected parts of the business to be managed by specific users.
Supports multiple scheduling boards allowing different or interconnected parts of the business to be managed by specific users.
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Inventory

Manage the goods received in your warehouse and ensure you have the right balance of material in the right place at the right time.

View availability by product and/or location.
View availability by product and/or location.
Multiple warehouses can be created with up to 7 dimensions to represent aisles, shelves, and bin locations.
Multiple warehouses can be created with up to 7 dimensions to represent aisles, shelves, and bin locations.
Move and track goods between locations including a quarantine facility. 
Move and track goods between locations including a quarantine facility.
Maintain audit trail of receipt allocation, issuing, returns, movement and adjustment of inventory. 
Maintain audit trail of receipt allocation, issuing, returns, movement and adjustment of inventory.
Use any hand-held smart device to scan barcodes and further speed up inventory activities. 
Use any hand-held smart device to scan barcodes and further speed up inventory activities.
Streamline inventory checks and cycle counts.
Streamline inventory checks and cycle counts.
Supports management of almost any raw materials and consumables as well as overprinted, manufactured finished goods and bought-in products for resale.
Supports management of almost any raw materials and consumables as well as overprinted, manufactured finished goods and bought-in products for resale.
Support for different types, units and quantity of measure.
Support for different types, units and quantity of measure.

Warehousing & Fulfillment

Your warehouse operatives can use a smartphone, tablet or barcode scanner device to receive and move goods, log the receipt of unidentified customer-provided goods, access picking lists and carry out inventory stock takes.  All data and task statuses are fed back into the MIS in real time, giving you complete transparency of your warehouse operations and stock levels.

Assign Purchase Orders to goods received via a mobile device, record the delivery note number, confirm quantities and assign a new location. 
Assign Purchase Orders to goods received via a mobile device, record the delivery note number, confirm quantities and assign a new location.
Received some unidentified goods from a customer and don’t know who they’re for? No problem! Enter the delivery details, attach a photo of the product and assign a warehouse location. 
Received some unidentified goods from a customer and don’t know who they’re for? No problem! Enter the delivery details, attach a photo of the product and assign a warehouse location.
Assign picking lists for finished goods to warehouse operatives from a main MIS terminal. 
Assign picking lists for finished goods to warehouse operatives from a main MIS terminal.
Assign tasks such as moving stock to warehouse operatives, who can access these tasks on mobile devices.
Assign tasks such as moving stock to warehouse operatives, who can access these tasks on mobile devices.
Carry out stock/inventory takes via a mobile device. Scan warehouse locations and enter stock quantities. Anomalies are flagged within the MIS where users can take action to remedy these.
Carry out stock/inventory takes via a mobile device. Scan warehouse locations and enter stock quantities. Anomalies are flagged within the MIS where users can take action to remedy these.
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ePS Tharstern Smart Shipping

Smart Shipping

When processing complex multi-location campaigns, Tharstern will automatically calculate the transit time for each location, and identify a ‘Ship By’ date that must be met in order to meet the ‘Due Date’ specified by the customer.

Tharstern Desktop analyzes the location data contained within customer file imports to calculate travel time, removing the need for manual entry.
Tharstern Desktop analyzes the location data contained within customer file imports to calculate travel time, removing the need for manual entry.
The MIS will automatically calculate a Ship By date based on transit time for each location and the required by dates set by the customer.
The MIS will automatically calculate a Ship By date based on transit time for each location and the required by dates set by the customer.

Auto-Packing

Helps manage the packing process for complex projects. Creates packing groups for each location, and suggests best packaging materials.

The MIS will analyze imported data to determine how many of each SKU is required per location and create unique packing groups for each.
The MIS will analyze imported data to determine how many of each SKU is required per location and create unique packing groups for each.
The dimensions of each package are calculated by the MIS, and the most appropriate carton, tube or envelope is selected for packing from the options in your database.
The dimensions of each package are calculated by the MIS, and the most appropriate carton, tube or envelope is selected for packing from the options in your database.
The software identifies which SKUs can be packed inside another package to create a sub-kit. 
The software identifies which SKUs can be packed inside another package to create a sub-kit.
Users can also manually select multiple SKUs and add them to the carton, tube or envelope without using the automated functionality.
Users can also manually select multiple SKUs and add them to the carton, tube or envelope without using the automated functionality.
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Traceability

Create tracking records for your manufactured jobs, so you can trace back each order to the raw materials, processes and operators used to produce it. Helps you meet the traceability standards required by customers in the pharmaceutical and food industries.

Create tracking records for jobs and sales orders.
Create tracking records for jobs and sales orders.
Record and track raw material batches from vendors upon receipt and assign a warehouse location for each.
Record and track raw material batches from vendors upon receipt and assign a warehouse location for each.
Quickly identify jobs affected by quality issues such as material recalls.
Quickly identify jobs affected by quality issues such as material recalls.
Allows the creation of traceability labelling for batches of raw materials e.g. paper/board, ink, pallets/skids, cartons.
Allows the creation of traceability labelling for batches of raw materials e.g. paper/board, ink, pallets/skids, cartons.

Multi company support

Comprehensive multi company support for organizations with multiple companies/divisions with shared production resources and separate accounting ledgers. Each department or site can take responsibility for scheduling and invoicing their own work.

ePS Tharstern Multi Company Support