You just made one of your toughest decisions and purchased a new print management system for your
business. Or maybe you have a system you just can’t seem to get fully utilized.
A print management system is a major capital investment by any measure. It requires a significant amount
of resources and commitment to implement, easily costing you thousands of hours and dollars. When
properly utilized, a business management system will provide generous paybacks to your printing
organization by reducing costs, improving productivity, improving customer relations, increasing
profits, and empowering your people with timely and useful information. Many printers stake their
competitiveness, financial stability, and future on the outcome. The risks can be high.
Whether you just purchased a system or you’re trying to
better implement your old one, Profectus can help you
maximize its capabilities and return on investment.
Profectus provides the printing industry’s most comprehensive solution for implementing management
systems – from front office operations like sales, estimating, order entry, and finance, to back end
operations such as scheduling, production, shipping, fulfillment, and distribution.
We reduce your implementation costs, free up resources, and eliminate interruptions to your business
by managing the implementation, setting-up your data, realigning business processes, and keeping the project
moving. The faster you get your solution in place, the sooner you will realize a return on your investment.
Project Preparation & Planning - Poor planning is the cause of over 80% of failed software
implementations. Profectus consultants work with your organization to prepare a roadmap for implementing a
system. The plan provides your company with a clear vision of the journey forward, keeps the project moving
at a steady pace, eliminates duplication of effort, ensures that the project is in control, and maximizes
the use of your resources.
Data Setup & Optimization
- Building the databases that control your system including your cost centers, processes, hourly cost
rates, production standards, materials, and chart of accounts. We also assist in planning and mapping data
conversions from your old system to your new system.
Training - Coordinate training classes with your organization and the software vendor, and
workshops to educate your staff on system concepts, sales, marketing, estimating, planning, order entry,
inventory, production, cost accounting, and management reports.
Business Practices - Realigning your
business practices as warranted by the capabilities of your management
system.
Reports Setup - Identify and design top-level action-oriented reports
action-oriented reports that measure the performance of each area of your business and educate your
people on what the information means and how to proactively act on the information to improve operations.
Pilot Testing - Profectus helps your team prepare and run pilot tests to check the system’s setup,
capabilities, overall performance, until the results are adequate for live operation.
Post Implementation Training - Post Implementation Training is designed to identify the system
capabilities that are underutilized and institute actions that will maximize the potential and benefits of
the management system.
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