Digital Print Requirements

Main functionality

Area

Capabilities

Functionality

Priority

View Workload

Ability to view digital print workload by several criteria:

  • Estimated Print Date

  • Required Date & Time

  • Priority

  • Machine

  • Shift

  • Company / category Job Details

  • Job identifier

  • Print Qty

  • Light / Dark Garment

  • Other Job Lines

  • Picked Stock Location

  • Pre-requisite process statuses

    • Art Checkover

    • Tech Spec

    • Pre-treatment status

    • Stock allocation & pick state

    • Job Approval / Sign off

    • Stencil set status

Exists Essential

Highlight Time Critical jobs

Ability to visually highlight a digital print job where required date = today()

Exists Essential

Organise Workload

  • Ability to set (or amend) the relative priority for a digital print job

  • Ability to see workload organised by relative priority and other criteria

  • Ability to amend a digital print job scheduling data

 - allocate to a differing machine

Exists

Essential

Digital Print Run - Preparation
  • Ability to view garment requirements for each print run
  • Ability to print hard copy of garment requirements
  • Ability to locate source garments, pick them and update system status as picked
  • Ability relocate now picked garments to DTG location and record as such
Exists Essential
Digital Print Run - Pre-Treatment
  • Ability to mark garments / job line as pre-treated

Exists Essential

Digital Print Run -- Calling Up Image

Ability to call up ripped image for print press

 - for Aeoon machine, the ripped image called up from the machine (i.e. image pulled directly from server connection)

 - for Brother tooling - ripped image called up from the job line record container

 

** is there a way to call the images up directly from the repository in all cases  -

Exists

Essential

Digital Print Run --Pre-Checks

Ability to indicate pre-run check begun

 - capture time metric

 - update check status

Exists

Essential

Complete Pre Run Check

Ability to indicate pre-run checks completed (simultaneously starts main print run)

 - set check status completed

- capture responsible person -

capture time metric and thus duration

Exists

Essential

Undertake Print Run

Triggered from completion of pre-run checks

- set production status for print line > In progress

capture main run start time

Exists

Essential

Complete Print Run

Update Status > completed

capture duration

Exists

Essential

Account for Finished Items, Scrap and Qty processed

Support the following scenarios

Case 1: Print run was POD  - i.e source was webstore

  1. ability to capture per process line QTY successfully produced; scrapped
  2. ability capture per  garment QTY successfully produced; scrapped

 

Case 2: Digital Print run is the last remaining uncompleted process for the job

  1. ability to capture per process line QTY successfully produced; scrapped
  2. ability capture per  garment QTY successfully produced; scrapped
  3. ability to complete the data capture process  - marks as complete
  4. update the associated SKU's  - DR expected CR available
  5. ability to actualised produced Book into stock location (trolley)

Case 3: Print run is not last remaining uncompleted process for the job

  1. ability to capture per print  process line QTY successfully produced; scrapped
  2. ability to relocate  stock location (trolley)  (Note this is not booking in)

Exists

Essential

 

Inputs

From

Details

Production Management

Digital screen process lines scheduled by

  • Date Required

  • Shift Pattern

  • Print Press

Art Department

Technical specification for carrying out the digital print process

Ripped Art Files for DTG printing.

Warehouse

Blank garments for decorating / processing

Webstores

POD orders for DTG printing

Blank garments for POD printing

 

Outputs

To

Details

Despatch

Finished goods for external despatch and/or storage

Production Mgt

Details of actual items manufactured, wastage and no# processes applied successfully per process line..

Accounts

Details of actual items manufactured, wastage and no# processes applied for invoicing purposes

Webstores

Decorated items for POD orders

 

 

Stock Management Function

  1. Monitor stock levels of key peripherals / consumables to ensure stock levels >= minimum amount
  2. Create / raise Purchase Orders with suppliers for peripherals / consumables
  3. Create internal PO records to match
  4. Book in items received against raised POs

 

Area

Capabilities

Functionality

Priority

Monitor Stock Levels

Ability to manage stock levels (peripherals, consumables)

  •  Set minimum level for SKU's

  • Monitor current levels of SKUs vs Min Level

Exists

Essential

Maintain stock levels

Ability to raise orders for required supplies (peripherals, consumables)

?? Can this be automated as to when SKU falls below level - auto create PO ??

Exists

Essential

Transmit Orders

Ability to communicate order to supplier

Ability to receive confirmation of order

 

?? Can this be automated per Ralawise / API etc

Exists

Essential

Process Order Receipts

Ability to process order deliveries

 

 - update delivery information

 - update order line information

 - book order line qty into inventory system

 - update PO records / status

Exists

Essential

 

 

 

Inputs

From

Details

Inventory  System

Current inventory levels

Suppliers

Deliveries of Ordered Items

 

Outputs

To

Details

Suppliers

PO for ordered items

Accounts Dept

PO record for reconciling with supplier invoice

Inventory System

Booked In Ordered Supplies