ERP software for commercial printers

1. optimized
business management
EMS
Business Software

2. Manage the totality of your business—from the
front office to the back office to production—with
Kodak EMS Business Software, a comprehensive,
integrated ERP solution for the print industry.
Kodak EMS Software combines the • Easily extend your internal systems
capabilities of a leading manufacturing- to customers and suppliers, with EMS
oriented ERP solution with Kodak’s deep Software’s open architecture and tools
understanding of the printing industry. • Customize your EMS Software
It is a print-ERP solution designed for the configuration for your business needs
specific needs of traditional and digital today and tomorrow
printing businesses.
Customer Relationship
Uniquely Suited to Your Business Management
To accommodate the various needs of Control all aspects of your company’s
today’s printing businesses, EMS Software interactions with customers and potential
is a modular solution that allows you customers, including lead generation,
to build a system that precisely meets business development, ordering,
your unique requirements, and expand it producing and shipping goods, receiving
as your business grows. With support payment, and more.
services from Kodak, including training,
implementation, integration, business
Sales Order Management
optimization, and product support, you Streamline your sales process. Centralize
can structure your EMS Software imple- access to product, pricing, and customer
mentation to help you serve your unique information, so orders can be generated
business processes and procedures. with fewer steps.
• Improve decision-making with real-time Product Data Management
key performance indicators (KPIs) and Create a central knowledge repository
business intelligence for process and product history.
• Win more jobs and improve customer Promote integration, data exchange,
relationships, with faster quotes control, and communication.
and estimates
• Identify the most, and least-profitable Estimating and Planning
products and customers, with accurate Take advantage of flexible, robust
job costing and profitability calculations estimating, planning and scheduling
• Reduce your quote-to-cash cycle solutions that help with day-to-day
• Enable multi-company/multi-plant production and long-range planning
collaboration with centralized business and decision making.
management

3. REMOTE FACILITY
Inventory
Quality Fulfillment Finished
Assurance Goods
G
Go
Finishing
HR & Payroll
$
Offset & Digital
Finances Printing
& Taxes
PRODUCTION
BACK OFFICE
Business Tracking
KODAK EMS
& Reporting Business Software
FRONT OFFICE
Prepress
Sales & Marketing Scheduling
CRM & Service Quoting & Planning
& Estimating
CUSTOMER SUPPLIER
Manage the totality of your business.
Production Management Financial Management
Model your best production practices Monitor financial conditions with inte-
using sophisticated technologies. grated accounting. Access the tools you
Empower your shop floor personnel need to improve your decision-making.
to make decisions that optimize your
production process. Business Performance
Management
Mixed Mode Manufacturing Manage your business with tools for
Manage your digital, traditional, and reporting and analysis. Perform real-time An Executive Dashboard delivers real-time KPIs
monitoring and receive alerts when a key to improve decision-making.
fulfillment business as an integrated
whole. Automate and shorten your performance indicator or process is
order-to-cash process for short-run outside a pre-established tolerance.
and fulfillment orders with connec-
tivity to web-to-print software.
The management hub of a Kodak
Unified Workflow Solution
Supply Chain Management Kodak EMS Business Software is the
Achieve supply chain visibility and management hub of a Kodak Unified
remove processes that do not add Workflow Solution—a comprehensive,
value. Meet customer demands for integrated solution for graphic commu-
EMS Software automatically calculates your
faster delivery and lower costs by nications. The modular architecture of pricing based on predefined schema with flexible
Kodak Unified Workflow Solutions brings adjustments to win the deal.
synchronizing processes inside and
outside your company. together business, production, color,
and data management in a combined
Lean Manufacturing conventional and digital printing environ-
Enable lean thinking and practice. ment. Intelligent automation helps
Work in real-time to optimize supply promote efficiency and quality control,
and demand throughout your entire and profitability throughout the entire
enterprise utilizing lean-supporting core print process.
methodologies such as Kanban flow.
EMS Software lets you compare production
scenarios and suggests the best option.

4. EMS Business Software Modules
Inventory Management; Job Management; Order Management; Purchasing Management; Shipping &
Core Configuration Receiving; Estimating & Production Planning; Job Configurator; Core Financial Modules - A/R, A/P, GL;
Bi-directional JDF Integration; Integration to Kodak Prinergy Business Link Software; Integration to Kodak
UpFront Software; Integration to Kodak Preps Software
Customer Relationship Management (CRM); customerConnect Web Portal; Sales Force mobileConnect;
CRM & Sales Force Automation (Optional)
Web Portal; EDI
Supplier & Shipping Management (Optional) Supplier Relationship Management (SRM); supplierConnect Web Portal; Advanced Shipping Management
Shop Floor Information System; Quality Control & Management; Advanced Material Management;
Material & Plant Management (Optional) Material Requirements Planning (MRP); Advanced Planning & Scheduling Master; Advanced Planning &
Scheduling Viewer
Multi-Company Management; Currency Management; Payroll Management; Advanced Financial Reporting
Financial Management (Optional) (Microsoft FRx Software) Report Writer/Viewer; Advanced Financial Reporting (Microsoft FRx Software)
Additional Viewer; Advanced Business Intelligence (CorVu Software)
Multi-plant and Multi-company Support; Currency Management; Payroll Management; Human Resource
General (Optional)
Management; Asset Management
EMS Business Software Hardware Requirements
• Intel Xeon Dual-Core Processor, 2.4GHz (5-40 users) or Intel Xeon Quad-Core 2.66 GHz for
(More than 40 users)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Operating System only ( 32-bit or 64-bit)
• 4 x 73 GB hot-swap data drive (or 2 x RAID1)
• 4 GB RAM (5-40 users) plus 1 GB per 40 additional users (Over 4 GB requires Windows 2003
Enterprise edition)
Server • 40 GB free disk space
• 10K or 15K RPM SCSI Drives, RAID 1 or 10 (RAID 5 configurations are not supported)
• SVGA adapter w/color SVGA monitor, 1024 X 768 monitor resolution
• DVD-R drive (required)
• Internet connection recommended for online support and downloading latest updates
• Enabled VPN and Remote Desktop access for implementation and support
Notes:
• Specifications for network workstations (MES) and standalone PCs (clients) are available upon request.
• A hardware server with the recommended configuration is available for purchase from Kodak.
Contact your Kodak representative for more details.
To learn more about solutions from Kodak:
Visit graphics.kodak.com
Or in North America, call +1-866-563-2533
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