MIS--Automation Preparation

"We are a heatset web printer; we do a lot of publications, a lot of calendars," Karaffa says. "It's very important for us to load our plant months in advance—sometimes a year in advance."

Now, with the KEREN scheduling system from AHP Systems, Perry Judd's can sell future time slots and juggle work to get the most out of its web presses. "The KEREN scheduling system has given us the opportunity to forecast capacity fairly accurately," Karaffa says. "If we do start to see some bottlenecks, we can regroup our cost centers to see if by combining different types of work together we have a different capacity."