Project Background

Lamipak was founded in 1986 in Finland and is now part of APP Group, one of the top ten paper companies in the world. With the change of global business, Lamipak moved to China and built LAMI PACKAGING (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD. This is an integrated base for R&D, production and marketing, which is mainly engaged in R&D, production and sales of paper-based aseptic packaging materials and paper containers for the food packaging industry.

The factory covers an area of about 25,000 square meters and has nearly 400 employees. At present, in addition to the Kunshan integrated base, Lamipak has sales and technical service offices in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai in China; and strong marketing and technical service teams in various countries in Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North America. The entire sales operation is worldwide, and Lamipak's products have been sold to more than 70 countries worldwide.

Lamipak is equipped with a fully enclosed production workshop with an advanced air shower system and a professional pest control company to assist in pest control, and has obtained FSSC22000 food safety system certificate, GMP certification and QS certification. The company has an experienced pre-press design team to ensure that our customers' products achieve excellent printing results. At the same time, the factory has a world-class automatic aseptic packaging production line, printing machine, film laminator, slitting machine and diagnosis machine are imported high-speed equipment, BHS 8-color flexographic printing machine, the speed can reach 500 meters per minute, overprinting accuracy of 0.07mm; Germany DavisStandard high-speed film laminator can reach 500 meters per minute. The annual capacity is about 5 billion packages.

With the continuous expansion of Lamipak's business, the existing self-developed system could no longer meet the business needs and support the continuous expansion of the company's business. Choosing a brand new system platform to establish a unified business collaboration information platform suitable for Lamipak's effective monitoring and information sharing in sales, purchasing, inventory, production, finance, etc. has become the top priority for the company to develop. The company spent several months to study and select the best ERP product and the strongest consultant team, and through the implementation of the project, to train a team of internal consultants and business backbone who know both management and information technology.

Solutions

Lamipak, founded in Finland, is part of the APP Group, one of the world's top ten paper companies, and is one of the top three companies in the world with independent intellectual property rights for paper-based aseptic liquid packaging. The unique paper-based cylindrical liquid packaging solution makes it stand out from the crowd. As a leader in the aseptic packaging industry, Lamipak's management chose Microsoft Dynamics products and IWS as the partner for this ERP project implementation, which is the recognition and trust of IWS.

The production management process is closely linked to finance:

The corresponding financial data is generated through the actions of material receipt and process reporting. The focus is on the combination of four management elements: production task acquisition methods, material receipt records, process reporting records, and completion storage records. In the printing, laminating and slitting processes, the optimum number of widths is set according to the length and width of the product, and standard work hours are calculated.

Batch number tracking during warehouse and workshop management:

The warehouse sends raw materials such as raw paper, particles and sheets of each batch number to the production workshop according to the BOM; the workshop machines check the accuracy of specific raw material batches through PDA according to the production instructions.

Efficient and strict quality management process:

Dynamics 365 quality management module will unify the management of each batch of each material's purchasing incoming quality inspection, production process quality inspection, incoming quality inspection, and shipping quality inspection, and realize the process management of single batch number quality inspection orders, as well as the tracking and tracing of each quality element of the batch number tree.

Supply chain management:

Implementing WMS system, decomposing inbound and outbound orders to each task, organically integrating forklifts, goods, shelves, warehouse personnel, etc. to improve warehouse efficiency and accuracy. Implement group unified shipping plan, integrate sales staff, customer service staff, shipping, external transportation resources, PMC, warehouse, finance, etc. of trading company and production company.

Finance and business integration:

Seamless integration of finance and business is realized through Dynamics 365. All financial data are automatically generated through business data to improve the accuracy and timeliness of financial management. At the same time, it realizes the integration of financial system and external golden tax system, and realizes the interconnection of banking and enterprise with banks to further solve the financial productivity.

Business Benefits

The successful launch of Microsoft Dynamics 365 has realized customized production and sales, closely combined the R&D, sales, production, procurement, warehouse, finance and other departments of rhodabel, realized resource optimization and sharing, greatly improved the company's management ability and work efficiency, and greatly enhanced the enterprise's core competitiveness, To provide more powerful support for Lamipak's future development.

The powerful function of Microsoft Dynamics 365 system realizes the comprehensive integration of financial business and informatization in sales, planning, purchasing, production, inventory and other business. All kinds of management reports provide strong support for the management's decision-making. It not only stabilizes the business operation process for the enterprise, but also provides great support for the development of the enterprise.

About Microsoft Dynamics 365

Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides a comprehensive business management solution for manufacturing and distribution companies around the world. The solution can help them manage their wide range of business areas more efficiently, including retail data and financial analysis, with special emphasis on achieving comprehensive real-time visibility of the entire supply chain. This integrated, customizable solution creates business value by:

▪ Enhance the enterprise's insight to help make reasonable decisions and provide visibility of all kinds of data for enterprise management

▪ Expand data and key processes to strengthen critical relationships with customers and partners, regardless of the systems they use and complexity

▪ Through the smooth integration with the existing enterprise ERP system and Microsoft product family, it can maximize the return on technology investment

▪ Through process optimization and automation, to improve productivity, optimize the supply chain, so as to reduce costs and improve profitability

▪ Can be customized to meet current needs, easy to grasp new business opportunities, and can more easily meet the personalized requirements of customers, so as to win in the competition

More Information

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For more information about IWS, Microsoft's gold partner, please visit our website: http://www.iwstech.com