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Management and Administration Software and Systems
News Release from: Optimus | Subject: Optimus 2020
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 April 2005
Squeezing Every Bit Of Efficiency With
New MIS
As Capital Print and Display prepares for the arrival of a new sheet-fed press in May, the London (UK) large-format specialist has completed the upgrade of its management information system (MIS).
As Capital Print and Display prepares for the arrival of a new sheet-fed press in May, the London (UK) large-format specialist has completed the upgrade of its management information system (MIS) to the latest Windows-based Optimus 2020 system As well as accounting, estimating and costing, the new MIS system includes modules for shop floor data collection, purchase order control and enhanced e-commerce capabilities
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 11 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Capital's operations manager Richard Graham said: "E-commerce is central to our future plans.
We can give clients access to a wide range of options, including using Optimus 2020's on-line stock and inventory management modules to control and order their point-of-sale items via the Internet.
Remote checking of PDF proofs will also be available." He added that the Optimus 2020 was a vital element of the investment programme at Capital over the last two years, the highlight of which was the company's move to its new GBP 10m, 12,500 square metres factory last summer.
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"The consolidation of manufacturing at one site instead of five has reaped big efficiency benefits and given the business a massive boost," he added.
Head of sales and marketing David Carey also announced that Capital had won 30 new clients in 2004, who are expected to add over GBP 3m to the company's 2004 turnover of GBP 12m.
Carey commented: "Optimus has played a vital part in the growth in our profits over recent years, since we chose this supplier for our first MIS system in 1996.
At the time, we were impressed with the system's flexibility, which we need given that we offer offset, screen and digital output.
Over the last nine years, the Optimus systems - first the Classic and now Optimus 2020 - have helped us identify more profitable work, and then win that work, made us more efficient internally and most of all improved our service to clients." And Richard Graham added: "To be profitable in today's industry, you have to work with the most up-to-date and accurate data - that's one thing that Optimus 2020 gives us.
It also enables us to engineer and keep re-engineering our business processes to squeeze every bit of efficiency out of our operations by doing things faster, and with minimal manual intervention, which means fewer errors." As examples, he cited how Optimus 2020 can use information from the client's order to automatically generate a digital job-bag and the integration of Optimus 2020's e-commerce system with Capital's purchasing management system.
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