Swiss packaging group Model is to integrate SAP’s ERP (enterprise resource planning) application with EskoArtwork’s ArtiosCAD design software to streamline its multi-site operations into a unified database.
"The challenge for us is to co-ordinate the existing multiple hardware and software capabilities in our production departments within a single database," explains Model’s Edoardo Finotti. "We have been a satisfied customer of EskoArtwork for several years, and it became essential to invest in a solution which streamlined our complex operation."
SAP will directly manage all data to ensure greater productivity, time savings and more efficiency are reached. Its online integration project calls for simplified and speeded-up processes. Other requirements include a direct paperless workflow, a central data structure organized and managed under SAP’s Content Server, no data redundancies and a “future-oriented solution” using SAP standard components.
Once the project is completed, operators from all plants and departments of the Model Group will retrieve their CAD data directly from the ordering process system without having to look up or recreate structural design.
EskoArtwork’s ArtiosCAD software is used by all Model Group's plants, which makes the integration of SAP's ERP application a logical and practical solution.
Edoardo Finotti concludes: "Since we offer packaging-design, print consultancy and co-packing services, it makes sense to pool the resources of our supplying companies so that we have the best possible combination of packages."
