Esko Introduces Value-Added Consulting Services

GENT, BELGIUM—Esko announced the introduction of a targeted range of value-added consulting services geared to deliver expert advice for increased customer value and increased ROI. Esko’s consulting services will draw on its extensive resources in process management and optimization, leading-edge hardware and software solutions, and professional services and training. Esko’s consulting services will be offered to provide solutions to the challenges facing today’s packaging industry.

“We know that a company’s success is dependent upon finding ways to work smarter, quicker, and better, and Esko is ready to assist,” says Jef Stoffels, Esko director of corporate marketing. “Esko’s consulting services enable us to share our expertise with customers throughout the value chain. We can help companies to identify and resolve workflow and quality challenges in design, prepress, and production of packaging. Our new consulting practice focuses on what we call the I3 goals: Improvement of current processes, Innovation by adopting today’s best practices and technologies, and Integration of applications that drive operational, planning, and design processes.”

Esko will offer consulting services in five key domains: ‘Quick Wins’, aimed at designing and achieving an ROI improvement roadmap; Color Excellence to improve color management standards and capabilities; Operational Excellence, geared at improving workflow efficiency and effectiveness; Collaborative Excellence, integrating partners in the packaging supply chain; and Integration Excellence, integrating application architectures based on the JDF framework.

Esko’s consulting services are currently available to customers in North America and Western Europe. The company plans a worldwide implementation for 2007.