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Press-sense Omnium™ is an end-to-end Business Flow Automation system that provides critical data on your business and production processes – all in real time. With unique capabilities designed to address the specific needs of the print industry, Omnium unites all aspects of your business flow into a highly efficient end-to-end process. It automatically translates job intent (based on JDF) into a complete resource plan that encompasses waste calculation, time allocation, scheduling, inventory, labor, and pricing. The advanced system quickly shows you real job costs before you issue a quote, so that the decisions you make are based on complete and accurate information.
Much more than MIS
Press-sense Omnium automates the individual work of each department, saves time on overhead, focuses attention on decision-making and streamlines the handshakes between departments. A highly flexible solution, Press-sense Omnium is designed to be adapted to the specific business flow and “chain of commands” of any organization.
Working with Omnium ensures an efficient “one voice” business flow among all the various departments in the print house, reducing errors, improving customer service and enhancing business performance and profitability. Press-sense Omnium™ allows print providers of any size to fully embed organizational know-how into existing business policies and production models. Extending far beyond typical management information systems (MIS), Omnium automates the entire business process and production operation, from intent capturing, various types of planning, project costs, material costs, quote generation, through the full sales cycle, and scheduling and production, real time tracking and responding, all the way to delivery. Addressing the serious challenges that affect a Print Service Provider’s business, Omnium also handles all of the process management requirements related to sales, operations, management and finance.
Omnium generates a wide range of detailed business flow intelligence reports and enables users to define their own reports. The system presents data clearly and logically, making it easy to identify which jobs, customers and processes deliver the highest margins and which are eating away at the profits. Armed with accurate, up-to-date information, Print Service Providers can target marketing and sales efforts exactly where they will see maximum return. Omnium provides a clear picture of production and financial performance in relation to targets. It provides advance alerts of impending deviations from allocated budgets, enabling Print Service Providers to reset their course, if needed, and move closer to their goals.
Optimized quoting, planning and production management
Press-sense Omnium turns manual, often guess-driven quoting and planning into an automated, accurate and efficient process that is instead driven by a single, consistent company policy. With Omnium’s instant quote generation capabilities, sales staff can rapidly create accurate quotes that are in line with company strategy, more quickly and easily than is possible with manual systems. With the ability to handle a greater number of quotes, sales representatives can respond more promptly to customer inquiries, and thus close deals faster.
The system automatically translates a JDF intent into a complete resource plan that encompasses scheduling, inventory and pricing. Fully automated Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) facilitates job ordering, resource planning and production, while the simplified and automated system handles everything from quotes through delivery and billing.
Omnium lets users easily access, document and track real-time job status and most recent customer-related activities as well as make last minute changes – all at the touch of a button. Users with access rights can process information in their own language on-line 24/7 from any computer with an Internet connection without the need to install specialized software. The Press-Sense Omnium advantage
Press-sense Omnium is a uniquely comprehensive solution, offering numerous advantages over any other management system currently available.
- Exclusively created for and dedicated to the special needs of printing businesses
- Straightforward implementation – allows Print Service Providers to integrate organizational know-how and existing business policies and production models without costly customization, maintenance or modification
- Fully automated MRP – from JDF job intent through resource planning and production
- Creates the most simple and automated quote-order-plan-produce-fulfill-bill process
- ISO-structured system – incorporates every organizational process, enabling full tracking
- JDF-based structure – not just JDF-compliant
- Fixed-structure policies – eliminate dependence on employee guess work and discretion, ensuring consistent performance
Key Features and Capabilities
Customer service
- Displays real-time status about customers and jobs
- Enables CSRs to estimate and plan jobs based on complete, accurate, real-time information about available resources, inventory, production capabilities and business policies
- Provides direct propagation of customer and job changes using job knowledge that is CSR-independent
- Allows more customers to be served as the sales team can specify job intent
Sales
- Creates complex quotes in minutes – rather than hours – converting a demanding process into an assured sales opportunity
- Provides and controls visibility into production and cost options, enabling effective negotiations and decision-making
- Delivers improved understanding of the negotiation parameters on a per-job basis (profit, customer properties, etc.)
Planning
- Generates a variety of plan proposals based on embedded capabilities and chooses the most effective one
- Provides outsourcing capabilities
- Monitors time-dependent jobs, to verify priorities and ensure cost effectiveness
- Automatically plans adjustments for unexpected equipment downtime and allows real-time re-planning and readjustment in response to changes in the production parameters (such as machine availability inventory levels and procurement plans )
- Offers versatile planning of hybrid environments (digital and offset)
- Generates mixed digital and offset jobs to maximize profit, ensuring decisions are based on the most profitable options and combinations, not on vague "rules of thumb"
- Increases business volumes with the same planning staff due to automation in job planning
Production management
- Provides full information on customer specifics, required materials, inventory status, and delivery requirements, enabling efficient scheduling, job approval and production status monitoring
- Dynamic status reporting, covering equipment, consumables and operators, enables real-time response to changes on the production room floor, to efficiently handle errors and make adjustments to minimize delays
Print house operation
- Provides constant access to all job information, preventing errors due to misunderstandings or incorrect information
- Operation feedback screen enables operators to report back to the estimator regarding real production parameters for accurate post-production cost analysis, leading to improved estimations
- Electronic job ticket allows for last minute changes
- Offers direct communications with CSR
- JDF/JMF-based system enables machine status to be captured and analyzed
Delivery
Guarantees each and every delivery
Extends abilities throughout the services workflow, enabling a wider variety of operations
Automated propagation of job life cycle status keeps CSR and sales teams aware of delivery status, enables timely invoice notification, and supports efficient bundling of jobs for delivery
Purchasing and inventory
- Automatically produces purchasing requests based on real inventory levels and price offers
- Keeps track of all inventory status, enabling sales and other departments to make informed decisions, reducing overhead on the purchasing department
- Maintains inventory policies
- Generates automatic tax reports
- Manages stock locations
- Supports ready to production policies
Billing
- Automatically creates accurate invoices that take into account all chargeable processes, such as prepress and delivery costs
- Automatically updates the billing department with production changes, eliminating errors
Business management
- Lets you define policies to minimize discretion-based decision-making by employees, ensuring all quoting and planning is based on real, correct information
- Generates automated and user-defined business flow intelligence reports
- Allows access to operational cash flow information in real-time
Online ordering
- Using Press-sense iWay print on demand solution as the Omnium front end enables a fully automated POD service, backed by an effective unified management system
- Enables high-quality personalized on-demand printing services, with web-based print ordering
- Integrates online orders with your full business flow
- Supports provision of value added services, such as document asset management, document versioning/updating and document template services
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