ePS Packaging: End-to-end packaging solutions raise productivity, profitability

Backed by more than three decades of industry expertise, ePS Packaging delivers a growing range of future-ready software solutions for all segments of the packaging and printing industry. This leading global software provider develops and offers technology solutions for folding carton, tags, labels, flexible packaging and corrugated packaging, enabling printing and packaging manufacturers to boost efficiency, product quality and profitability.

The company’s highly flexible and modular packaging software solutions are designed to raise production capacity up to 20 percent. These enable manufacturers to complete their preproduction processing in less than 20 seconds and process work with reduced touchpoints of as much as 30 to 50 percent. Inventory requirements can also be lowered by 85 percent.

ePS Packaging solutions can be easily integrated into any tech stack and are interoperable with companies’ existing technologies, providing clients with a future-ready technology roadmap that enable them to address business needs, whether to transform, scale, expand or diversify business and operations.

Software solutions for foldable carton applications improve visibility and productivity across processes and workflows. These enable foldable carton suppliers to achieve significant strides in job estimation, production planning and scheduling, the latter even including multiple factories. The software solutions likewise deliver improved reporting and forecasts and even waste management.

On the right, Pratheep Kumar Arumugam, Regional Director for APAC/GCC Packaging, with Thai Le, Industry Specialist, ePS Packaging.

For manufacturers of tags and labels, the company’s solutions suite tackles concerns about material traceability and production costs at the same time help reduce production waste. By cutting the number of touchpoints, errors are likewise lowered alongside waste. The tag and label software solutions also provide precise cost estimates, streamline data flow and improve scheduling, all of which contribute to greater productivity and better real-time reporting.

ePS Packaging software solutions for flexible packaging features fast implementation and ROI. Optimized for end-to-end application from estimating and production planning to inventory management and sophisticated supply chain, they improve workflows and ensure visibility across processes. The products support material requirements planning (MRP), free stock planning, real-time analytics and data tracking. Further, manufacturers can leverage the integrated quality control functionalities to comply much more easily with quality standards and industry regulations.

For the corrugated packaging industry, ePS Packaging offers innovative solutions to address the challenges faced by corrugated manufacturers, box plants, sheet feeders and sheet plants. The software solutions combine ERP for better handling of inventory, sales, purchasing and financials and MES for management and control of manufacturing processes, real-time monitoring, scheduling and quality management. The enhanced order processing and accurate tracking and delivery notifications enable manufacturers to meet their customers’ varying demands.

Pratheep Kumar Arumugam, regional director for APAC/GCC Packaging, said that the company may not be a big enterprise, but it is very focused. “Our solutions deliver a 95 percent fit for the industry that we serve, the packaging industry, and therein lies our important role in the industry. When we talk about ERP or enterprise resource planning, for instance, there’s generic ERP or ERP for planning. Our ERP solutions are targeted at packaging applications and requirements, so they serve the needs of our packaging manufacturers,” he added.

ePS Packaging works closely with partners and clients to boost performance and profitability while reducing inventory and costs. Some of the industry leaders with which ePS Packaging has established close partnership are Sun Automation Group, HP, Hybrid Software and Esko. The company also collaborates with leading associations to continue product innovation toward improving efficiency, productivity and profitability for packaging manufacturers. Some of its partner organisations are Canadian Corrugated Containerboard Association, AMEXICCOR, The Independent Packaging Association, Sheet Plant Association, European Carton Makers Association, Flexible Packaging Association, Paperboard Packaging Council and Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute.

ePS Packaging is the packaging operating unit of eProductivity Software (ePS), a global leader in transformational technology for the packaging and print industries. Working with more than 4,500 customers in the packaging and print industries around the world, ePS harnesses technology to deliver a suite of integrated, automated and customisable software technology for MIS and ERP, e-commerce and industry-specific point solutions. Besides folding carton, tags, labels, and flexible and corrugated packaging, ePS solutions are optimized for use in commercial printing, creative agencies, large-scale enterprise commercial printing, in-plant printing, mailing, publication and book printing, sign and display, and digital printing and franchises.