PRIMAC

PRIMAC by Vercom Software Inc is a Print Industry Management and Control solution designed for small and large multi-plant manufacturing enterprises. According to the vendor, PRIMAC is widely used in the graphic art manufacturing industry, commercial sheet fed printing, high-volume commercial web publications, book publishing, and packaging. The software provides a range of features to efficiently manage production, inventory, financials, and more.

Key Features

Production Management Systems: According to the vendor, PRIMAC offers a set of tools for managing production, inventory, and financials in various segments of the printing industry, including commercial sheet-fed, high-volume commercial web publications, book publishing, packaging, flexible carton, roll label, large-format Flexo, and mail-order fulfillment.

Production Scheduling: PRIMAC PSS is a production scheduling system that integrates with PRIMAC MRP to manage just-in-time deliveries and volatile schedules, as claimed by the vendor.

Shop Floor: PRIMAC SFIS automates the collection of labor time, material usage, and job status information from pre-press to shipping. The vendor states that it provides accurate data capture at the source through multi-lingual prompts and allows supervisors to make necessary corrections.

Job Costing: According to the vendor, PRIMAC JCS tracks full absorption or direct costs and establishes detailed job cost production standards. It enables tracking of inventory down to the mill roll id and captures time and material entries against each job.

Job Ticket: PRIMAC offers custom job jackets and a powerful API that allows data to be fed directly, minimizing entry errors and streamlining the job ticketing process, as claimed by the vendor.

Job Estimating: According to the vendor, PRIMAC JES meets the demands of estimating multi-component print jobs. It automatically feeds job information to the Production Scheduling module, enabling efficient schedule management.

Order Processing: PRIMAC OPS enables the management of finished goods sold by skews and triggers production jobs when inventory falls below defined thresholds, according to the vendor.

Inventory Control: PRIMAC ICS handles a multi-company multi-division structure and accommodates both large and small companies. It defines major lines, product lines, items, warehouses, locations, and inventory down to the mill roll id, providing comprehensive control over inventory management, as claimed by the vendor.

Purchase Order: PRIMAC offers a fully integrated Purchase Order and Requisition system that tracks the needs of each job, allowing users to create purchases and approvals. According to the vendor, it tracks purchases against each job, even when partially applied.

WIP Tracking: PRIMAC WIP Skid Content locator system provides real-time tracking of work in process. The vendor states that it utilizes barcoded skid tags to easily create and track work progress with up-to-date location information.