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How to Leverage Kiwiplan’s Purchasing Module to Increase Your Operational Efficiency

By Grace Barton Updated
How to Leverage Kiwiplan’s Purchasing Module to Increase Your Operational Efficiency

Welcome back to part 4 of our Kiwiplan blog series! Last time, we discussed our costing and pricing module, which included the different types of pricing and machine, setup, and waste. This week, we’re turning our focus to Kiwiplan’s purchasing module and exploring how it enhances efficiency across sheet ordering and purchasing tasks.

Streamlining Your Sheet Ordering Process

We understand that sheet ordering isn’t typically an overcomplicated process, but it can be, so let’s talk about how Kiwiplan makes it less complicated.

  • Kiwiplan’s built-in scheduling component allows you to purchase essential components – such as ink, tear tape, handles, etc. – to keep your business running. It also consolidates multiple orders into single purchase orders, facilitating cost-effective procurement and streamlined logistics management.
  • The Finished Goods (FGS) management, which intelligently handles overruns and excess stock, helps your business identify leftover materials or unfinished pallets.
  • Our sheet ordering solution stands out for the nuanced approaches we take to manage exceptions effectively. Our customized alert system will make suggestions to reallocate materials to new jobs seamlessly to save you time, optimize your material usage, and reduce unnecessary waste.
  • Additionally, Kiwiplan incorporated a slitter feature that optimizes raw material usage by recommending precise cuts and configurations. This feature ensures that every material resource is utilized efficiently to minimize production costs and maximize output, whether it’s determining optimal sheet sizes or applying the necessary scoring.

Every component of the Kiwiplan sheet ordering process can be optimized by your business to make informed decisions that drive operational efficiency and cost savings.

Integrated Supply Management with Kiwiplan’s Purchasing Module

Next, let’s transition into Kiwiplan’s purchasing module. We have a full-supply management system where you can manually receive non-sheet orders or scan the receiving information into the system based on operational needs. Our purchasing module seamlessly integrates with the accounting system to ensure that every purchase order, receipt, correction, or credit is accurately reflected and managed.

Moreover, our ability to include materials – like tear tape, handles, and other packaging materials – in the bill of materials (BOM) streamlines the manufacturing process further. Operators can easily adjust consumption levels of non-corrugated materials to enhance operational agility and reduce inventory overheads. This level of integration and flexibility simplifies procurement and increases overall production efficiency.

Coming Up Next Week

Kiwiplan’s purchasing module is an excellent, robust solution for packaging operations. Our software handles everything from optimizing sheet ordering processes to seamlessly integrating non-sheet item purchases. With Kiwiplan, you can ensure every aspect of your purchasing workflow is streamlined and efficient.

Stay tuned for our next installment, where we’re transitioning into Kiwiplan’s scheduling module. We’ll explore how to manage order statuses, tooling, automatic and manual scheduling, and bookings and loadings.

Grace Barton

Marketing Specialist

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Grace Barton is a digital marketing and competitive intelligence professional who crafts strategic narratives by bridging marketing insights with analytical expertise. At Advantive, she creates engaging, data-driven content tailored to the distribution, manufacturing, packaging, and quality industries. Her goal is to deliver impactful messaging that drives engagement and growth based on specific gap closure needs, whether responding to sales organization requirements, pinpointing gaps in content, or meeting immediate market trends.
She thrives on transforming competitive intelligence into actionable insights for the sales organization. Grace manages Advantive’s competitive intelligence platform, Klue, to equip the sales team with the battlecards and market data they need to stay ahead of competitors. Since launch, she’s built 28+ battlecards across four lines of business, ensuring the GTM strategy stays sharp.
Grace has a passion for leveraging market insights with storytelling to guide strategic decision-making, empower sales organizations, and nurture organizational growth.

Areas of Expertise: Digital Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, Strategic Narratives, Marketing Insights, Analytical Expertise

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