Assemble your products, not spreadsheets
- CSRs gain speed and awareness: Make ordering faster and ensure accurate delivery dates without having to chase people or spreadsheets. Expand specialty product offerings and revenue with the customer service staff you have.
- Production Managers control more with less effort: Enable clean and configurable assembly areas that are clear of paper, excess components, and slow-moving WIP. See assembly job progress without asking a line lead for the latest count and receive alerts when something needs attention.
- Schedulers reduce complexity and burden: Optimize the plant’s schedule of converting and assembly jobs from one place. Gain better visibility into component availability, schedule impact of crew availability, and real-time production performance.
Key Capabilities of EnCore Assembled Products
Component Material Planning
Conduct material requirement planning with parent product structure availability, component-level inventory, and scheduled component consumption.
Inventory and Bin Control
Prevent assembly lines from being starved or overcrowded with staging, line, dock, and finished goods bin areas tied to assembled jobs.
Unified Converting and Assembly Scheduling
Schedule assembled product jobs with crew size, labor capacity and component availability from the same planning optimization solution that automates 80% of converting jobs.
Digital Production Reporting
Replace spreadsheets and their associated mistakes and delays with a purpose-built production reporting interface for hand assembly operations.
Real-Time Issue Alerts
Enable operators to ask for assistance without leaving their area - notify supervisors about tooling issues, stock outages, overruns, and underruns directly from the production interface.
FAQs
What are assembled products in a corrugated sheet plant?
Assembled products are offerings that require additional labor, components, or packaging steps beyond standard converting. This can include hand glueing and assembly, kit building, display assembly, multi-component orders, or finished goods that combine corrugated materials with other packaging materials such as foams.
Sheet and box plants can benefit from EnCore Assembled Products if they offer POP (point-of-purchase) displays, kits, or pre-assembled packaging for retail, consumer products, food and beverage, medical device, electronics or automotive industries.
Why should corrugated plants consider adding or expanding assembled product operations?
Assembled products give sheet and box plants a way to move beyond traditional packaging production into services that require much less capital investment and are less directly impacted by board price increases. By offering assembly, kitting, and specialty packaging solutions plants can deepen customer relationships, support more complex programs, protect margins, and become a more strategic partner to customers who need more than manufactured boxes.
How does EnCore Assembled Products support these operations better?
Standard packaging ERP systems are typically built around estimating, order entry, scheduling, inventory, and production for conventional corrugated manufacturing. EnCore Assembled Products extends those workflows with capabilities designed specifically for assembly work, including digital hand assembly reporting, crew and labor capacity planning, component availability, staging and line bin control, finished goods traceability, real-time production alerts, and MRP visibility into assembled-product demand and consumption. .
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