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So you're the new Production Manager.
They're saying it could be a tough job. Doesn't have to be, though, because you've got BLACKBIRD PTMS …
It'll help you sleep at night.
Production Management is not an easy job but you felt you were ready for the challenge of moving this company into a new style of management practices. You knew more work would have to be done by fewer people, so you need to be more efficient and make sure everyone has the information they need to do their job that much more easily. Not only that, but folks in Head Office have come up a scheme where compensation is tied to performance on a wide range of factors – not just tonnes.
And of course Sales is always coming up with innovative ideas to improve customer service, such as providing performance data on your operation to customers.
You’ve got good people, but you can’t rely on people being heroes – you need a system that automatically makes sure both the old and the new things are done right – fast, accurate, and using the best practices that you, and others in the industry, have developed.
A tough assignment! It would be understandable if you were losing sleep worrying about the challenges. But you’re not! You have an ace up your sleeve – you have BLACKBIRD PTMS! With it, you are superbly equipped to handle these challenges and more.
What you’ve got in BLACKBIRD PTMS is a system designed to apply “Best Practice” principles to help you do things right.
- Tracks the weight and moisture of every bale made, together with all quality, bale marks and everything else that might ever be needed. And, if you've got the industry-standard Forté moisture measurement system, you'll know every one of those moisture readings is accurate.
- Automatically calculates the product grade, audits retests, and highlights problems in color.
- If anything is out of spec, will let you know instantly, and can initiate a grade change automatically.
- Generates accurate reports immediately after the end of each shift and day.
You and your managers can review test results and monitor bale line operation anywhere, even off site using the Internet.
When quality is going up and down, LED Sign Control and QES Stencil Control will help minimize transitions, ensure pulp is correctly marked and alert your crews to every change in quality – no more relying on people’s memories. BLACKBIRD Warehouse Mapper keeps track of your warehouse contents and helps your crews decide where to store each quality, so mixed lots and storage errors can be a thing of the past.
BLACKBIRD PTMS also makes it easy to locate any off-grade pulp in inventory. Your crews can efficiently keep inventories controlled and maximize machine availability.
Finally, when it comes to the documentation, BLACKBIRD PTMS has extremely powerful reporting capabilities. It makes it easy for you to define any number of custom list screens with formatted reports from these lists, and save these for your later use. And you can export the best of your personal list reports for the use of others in your department or company.
And that’s just the start – BLACKBIRD PTMS has many other integrated functions to help you do your job – no more tracking in Excel or wishing someone else was keeping track of things - like stencil requirements for each customer and end user, complaints and resolutions from the sales department, notes for various kinds of issues, and an easy way to find something you need from those notes.
Built on a stable and secure Oracle or SQL Server database, BLACKBIRD PTMS is the enterprise-wide solution that links best business practices for your work functions (and others) into an overall system designed specifically for the market pulp industry. BLACKBIRD PTMS is a “Best Practices” system, and can stand alone to provide quality, production and distribution management, as well as sales order fulfillment right through to multi currency commercial invoicing. Or, BLACKBIRD PTMS can link back to the corporate sales order system, if your company has one.
Your competition is using information systems to help them do a better job. Why not go one better with BLACKBIRD PTMS, a “Best Practices” system?
To see more, and to really understand how BLACKBIRD PTMS can guarantee you’re On Track, On Time, On Budget in Production, contact us today.