Estimating Management System- What are the Features of Robust Estimating Software?

Estimating is the foundation of a commercial print company. Having a robust estimating engine can power your entire business and can make or break profitability. First of all, flexibility. Estimating should provide quotes for digital, offset, large format, signs, and specialty projects. It should scale with the business and have functionality if the business wants to expand into label and packaging. It should be three things: simple to use, with printing parameters preloaded into the system and accessible. These templates make estimating fast. Frequently quoted printed products or contract pricing for specific customers should be available. HiFlow’s Print MIS estimating module gives you the best print estimating software solution to generate accurate quotes customers.

Accounting and Invoicing Automation: Integrating Job Costing into Invoicing

Accounting and Invoicing can become tedious when it is something you have to manually keep track of. Time is wasted when accounting is not linked to estimating, production and post production processes–and accurate costing is a necessity to maintain lean margins. Job costs are constantly updated in HiFlow so that ACTUAL costs are imported into invoices. Integrate your existing accounting systems like Sage, or Quickbooks, with HiFlow’s Open API. Compare estimated data with actual production costs–leading to accurate and real time reporting.  Automation in HiFlow is a big time saver, for example, in monthly closing. If your team is using the tools there shouldn’t actually be anything to reconcile! Most of the data you’d normally check and copy across systems has already been checked and copied into your accounting system.

Warehouse Management: Knowing WIP is a Big Advantage

Be it stock maintenance history, managing all your external and internal warehouses to your deliveries, the MIS print warehouse management system handles it all efficiently.

Reporting and Dashboard: Get Visibility and Accuracy

Turn raw data into remarkable outcomes with data integration and analytics solutions through a print MIS. Close the gaps between wanting to know actual data and seeing it displayed in smart visualizations. HiFlow uses comprehensive reporting tools to show real time data Empower everyone to make bigger, bolder discoveries with analytics apps built into daily workflows. The reporting feature supports decision-making by providing information to management. This module generates multi-dimensional analyses based on data gathered in the system and provides them to authorized users. Analysis includes the entire business – production, stock and sales.

A Little Bit About Us

HiFlow is a flexible print MIS developed to automate the processes from estimate through production to invoicing designed by our industry experts for packaging, label, and print production. HiFlow MES module allows real time data from sensors to compare estimate, job ticket with actual production costs.

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