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Optimize Your Processes Using Kiwiplan’s Order Management Module

By Grace Barton Updated
Optimize Your Processes Using Kiwiplan’s Order Management Module

Welcome back to our 8-part blog series. In the last blog, we discussed the growing e-commerce industry, the influence of product packaging on consumer decisions, and how Kiwiplan drives operational efficiency for our customers. Today, we’re diving into the meat of Kiwiplan starting with our Order Management module – a crucial part of any packaging process.

Kiwiplan is Your Customizable Command Center

Home Screen

You’ll be greeted by the home page when you open up Kiwiplan. This feature allows each user to tailor their dashboard with essential data points and task shortcuts relevant to their role. Kiwiplan ensures that your most frequently used tools are always at your fingertips, whether you’re an accountant managing invoicing, a scheduler overseeing orders, or a customer service professional adding new companies. Our home screen enhances user efficiency and minimizes the stress of navigating a new system by centralizing key functions.

Watch Lists

A standout feature of Kiwiplan’s order management module is the customizable watch lists. These lists function like dynamic news feeds that alert users to specific tasks such as pending dockets, overdue orders, credit holds, or inventory thresholds. Watch lists ensure that relevant information is pushed directly to those who need it most and is tailored to individual user preferences. The watch list alerts help to create a seamless workflow by notifying designated personnel of tasks that need attention, like purchase order approvals.

Definable Fields

Kiwiplan’s user definable fields empower employees to modify and create fields per business requirements without the need for extensive coding. This capability extends across order, product design, customer, and plant levels and allows businesses to adapt workflows and data management protocols effortlessly. Our software helps ensure your system evolves in sync with your business, whether adjusting to new market demands or accommodating unique packaging specifications.

Kiwiplan Streamlines Your Quoting Processes

Kiwiplan simplifies quoting processes with two distinct methods: specification-based quoting and quick quoting. While specification-based quoting is ideal for intricate items requiring detailed input, quick quoting significantly reduces keystrokes, which makes it perfect for simpler products like ROCs or litho label boxes. Additionally, Kiwiplan’s tracking capabilities provide invaluable insights into customer engagement, allowing businesses to gauge pricing competitiveness and optimize sales strategies effectively.

Helping You Meet Your Customers Specifications & Expectations

Quotes lead to specifications, or as we call them, product designs. The product design is what the customer wants. Product design is split into three primary areas: things you’re going to make, things you’re going to buy, things you’re going to put together, sell, and ship. If a customer wants to buy the product design, you will potentially make it, buy it, mark it up, or pass it on depending on what you’re doing.

Our Software Makes Managing Sets & Assemblies Easy

Kiwiplan’s intuitive modules make managing sets and assemblies seamless, particularly for plants specializing in custom displays or complex packaging. Our software optimizes production workflows and ensures consistency and efficiency across various job types. We can do anything from creating and copying templates to delivering flexible pricing options and optimizing shared stock components.

Kiwiplan Expands Capabilities to Non-Corrugated Production

Kiwiplan mainly operated across corrugated plants up until recently. We’ve expanded our capabilities to include non-corrugated production such as pallets, crates, foam moldings, and sheet manufacturing. This versatility reflects our software’s adaptability to diverse manufacturing needs as a response to industry trends and customer requirements.

We Make Order Entry Efficient & Accurate

Efficient order entry is crucial to ensure accuracy and timeliness from placement to fulfillment. Kiwiplan enables precise scheduling and dynamic due date calculations by integrating real-time manufacturing data into order processing. In turn, this enhances customer service through informed decision-making and operational transparency.

What’s Next?

Kiwiplan’s Order Management module streamlines your operations with customizable features, robust quoting capabilities, and versatile production tools. Our solution enables businesses to adapt and thrive in the competitive landscape, from corrugated boxes to sheet plants and protective packaging. Stay tuned for our next blog, where we’ll explore Kiwiplan’s Costing and Pricing module.

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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