Despite the sluggish economy of the country, Suraksha Flexo Pack recently implemented Kiran Consultants’ Flexibiz ERP at its plant in Rajasthan to streamline its business processes. The ERP will help Suraksha Flexo Pack to reduce wastage by analyzing reasons – operators, machines that lead to such wastage; lot traceability – from final dispatch lot to initial input used; customer plant audit as entire workflow is automated – right from making of job card till end dispatch; barcoded inventory; timely and automated MIS and, much more.
Gaurav Bansal, director-marketing, Kiran Consultants, said, “The solution can handle sales order processing, production planning, job scheduling, stores, purchase, QC, stage-wise production order tracking, dispatch, CAPA, plant maintenance and Accounting. It is a complete ERP for end to end process mapping for flexible packaging manufacturers.”
Kiran Consultants has been providing ERP and CRM solutions to the packaging industry since 1988. Under the brand FlexiBiz, Kiran caters to the requirements of flexibles packaging, labels, cartons, woven and non-woven bags manufacturers. With expertise of over 30 years, the company has tremendously simplified its solution over the years bringing in more flexibility and a range of user-defined functions, making the product ready-to-go-live within a very short span of time.
The ISO 22000:2005 certified Suraksha Flexo Pack has two production units in Rajasthan – one is for printed flexible films and pouches, and another for corrugated boxes. The flexible packaging unit has an installed capacity of 750 mt films per month spread over a covered area of about 50,000 square foot. The installed capacity of the 30,000 square foot corrugated unit is 1500 mt of paper boards per month.
The flexible packaging unit of the company has state of the art rotogravure press by Pelican. The press is a fully loaded 1100 mm 8-color electronic line shaft machine running at speeds up to 300 mpm. In addition, the company has also a 1300 mm 8 color fully automatic printing press with speeds up to 250 mpm, and a 1000 mm 8-color printing press with speeds up to 200 mpm. For extrusion lamination, Suraksha has a fully automatic 300 mpm machine with Nordson T Die and screw barrel and thickness measurement system.