SHEFFIELD, England—Radius Solutions Ltd. announced that Chesapeake Corp. is rolling out its PECAS Vision ERP system as its global standard to support production operations across all of its facilities around the world. Founded in 1918 in West Point, Virginia, Chesapeake Corp. is a leading international supplier of value-added specialty paperboard and plastic packaging. Its customers include premier multi-national companies serving high-growth markets such as pharmaceutical and healthcare, and international premium branded products. The company produces a variety of products in the areas of paperboard packaging, folding cartons, leaflets, labels, composite tubes and booklets as well as plastic packaging, containers, bottles, preforms, and closures.
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SHEFFIELD, England—Radius Solutions Ltd. announced that Chesapeake Corp. is rolling out its PECAS Vision ERP system as its global standard to support production operations across all of its facilities around the world. Founded in 1918 in West Point, Virginia, Chesapeake Corp. is a leading international supplier of value-added specialty paperboard and plastic packaging. Its customers include premier multi-national companies serving high-growth markets such as pharmaceutical and healthcare, and international premium branded products. The company produces a variety of products in the areas of paperboard packaging, folding cartons, leaflets, labels, composite tubes and booklets as well as plastic packaging, containers, bottles, preforms, and closures.
CHICAGO—Radius Solutions Ltd. announced that WS Packaging Group has implemented PECAS Vision in three of its sites and has plans to roll out this solution in its remaining fifteen facilities. WS Packaging Group has more than forty years of experience in printing and flexible packaging for retail, commercial and industrial markets. The company’s focus on innovation enables it to provide a wide range of capabilities and services to clients to help them achieve impactful packaging results. With 18 different locations, the organization offers local representation to clients as well as a national reach. The decision to implement a new business information management
CHICAGO—Radius Solutions Ltd. announced that WS Packaging Group has implemented PECAS Vision in three of its sites and has plans to roll out this solution in its remaining fifteen facilities. WS Packaging Group has more than forty years of experience in printing and flexible packaging for retail, commercial and industrial markets. The company’s focus on innovation enables it to provide a wide range of capabilities and services to clients to help them achieve impactful packaging results. With 18 different locations, the organization offers local representation to clients as well as a national reach. The decision to implement a new business information management
Success is measured in many ways. For public companies in North America, there are a number of key parameters. Revenue growth, stock price, shareholder equity, and earnings per share are some of the more visible metrics. Based on these measuring sticks, Multi-Color Corporation (MCC), headquartered in Sharonville, Ohio, is a very successful company. Under the leadership of Frank Gerace, president and CEO, its revenues have increased 123 percent during the last five-year period, coming in at $222 million for its 2007 fiscal year. Its impressive earnings growth during that same period has provided shareholders with an overall five-year annual return of 22 percent.
For the last several years, Lean Manufacturing has been growing in the printing and packaging industries. PIA/GATF started presenting Quick Changeover training to printers and packaging companies starting in 1993 and implementing Total Production Maintenance starting in 1998. The problem printers have had with Lean is they have felt there are too many variables and that Lean applies to manufacturers that make widgets or automobiles. However, appeals for improving process efficiency in the printing industry date back to 1914 in articles in local printing trade publications. Lean Manufacturing is all about cost and money, so printing and packaging managers must first understand Lean’s perspective
CHICAGO—Radius Solutions Ltd., an integrated business information management/enterprise resource planning provider for the packaging and printing industry, has announced that Impressions Incorporated is implementing the PECAS Vision software to support its long-term business objectives and provide a single integrated system to manage information across its entire operation. The company spent more than five years going through a comprehensive due diligence process to select its fully integrated ERP application partner. More than twenty vendors were initially considered before targeting three final candidates for system demonstrations then reference check requirements. “There were no work-arounds needed; the PECAS Vision system was able to accommodate our operating requirements
The term MIS—management information systems—gets thrown around so much that the significance of its impact gets taken for granted. Company management and all employees making management decisions (and in well-managed companies, these decisions are made at the lowest possible organizational level) depend on accurate, real-time information to make good decisions that enhance the bottom line. So, you would think systems that provide the information for management decisions would get top billing, or at least some priority. However, this is not always the case. Companies that are in the MIS business for the printing arena sometimes struggle to win the battles for investment
User groups are a beneficial endeavor put to good use in a multitude of industries. The intent of these associations is to generate peer-to-peer interactions at the user (customer) level around a common technology or product. User group activities typically include the active participation of the company that supplies the technology or product. Chicago-based Radius Solutions, a provider of management information systems for the printing and packaging industries, recently held an “enhanced version” of its annual user conference. According to David Taylor, president of the company, he and an associate bought the company from its venture capital ownership about 18 months ago and immediately began
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