ERP for Bottle Manufacturing – Case Study

Packaging Product Manufacturing industry is one of the fastest growing manufacturing segments

Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells. It is one of the critical factors that decides how the goods are received by the end user. Thus the importance of this industry.

Challenges in Packaging Material Manufacturing Industry

Undergoing a major shakeup during the last two decades, the labor-intensive Packaging Material  industry has largely moved towards automation. During this period, majority of small and medium manufacturers have adopted modern technology to produce quality products matching international standards. However, this has made the manufacturing processes more complex, and increased the amount of data that needs to be handled at different stages of the supply chain.

Then there are other challenges too for the Packaging Material  industry, which has to deal with inconsistent orders, changing market trends, need to operate at tighter costs, meet regulations etc. A competent and flexible Packaging Material  ERP software, ERPNext for Packaging Material  Industry helps the manufacturers integrate all their processes across units at multiple locations, automate the complete system, store and access the data at one place, and control the costs effectively.

Key Features required for Packaging Manufacturing

• Warehouse Management
• Supplier/Vendor Management
• Shipments
• Order Collection
• Logistics and Supply Chain
• Job Work Management
• Production Planning & Control
• Customer Panel
• Batch Management and Barcodes Generation
• Dashboards & Reporting
• Bi-directional Lot Traceability and Lot Recall
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Master Production Scheduling (MPS) & Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
• Quality Assurance (QA) & Quality Control (QC)

Benefits of ERP for Packaging Manufacturing

• Flexible style matrix designed specifically for Packaging businesses
• Multichannel orders: process orders online & offline from a single interface
• Real-time inventory visibility across the warehouse
• Support to omni-channel sales
• Advanced BOM functionality to make the manufacturing process less complex and save time
• Fast order processing and dispatching
• Auto replenishment of stock
• Available on Cloud, which means you get real-time access to key business data
• Support to both in-house as well as contract manufacturing
• Complete inventory accuracy with location-level product visibility
• Supports automatic production
• Multi-warehouse capability
• Absolute compliance to the industry regulations
• User-friendly, actionable dashboards and reporting
• Cost control through reduced wastage, optimum material utilization and inventory management
• Enhanced customer satisfaction and loyalty
• Better understanding of customers’ buying behavior and patterns
• End-to-end bi-directional traceability, from the raw material to the finished product, and back
• Improved operational efficiency
• All statutory requirements like GST taken care of easily through the software