Labels, truck loading sheets, product specifications, product catalogue, MSDS, intranet, etc.
All these documents require up-to-date product information. How can you generate this information and how can you keep them ‘up to date’?
The BESTMIX label module already allows you to create and export graphic labels. These labels can be printed as they are generated. When you have to feed this information to external databases or external software packages, you need to set up a set of communication routes, with generation of ASCII files, to transfer data to the other systems.
It is now possible to set up the product information in a structured way. Every field that you define can be exported directly into a database, which means no hassling with ASCII files and you are guaranteed the most recent information!
When the production system uses specialised label software to add variable fields to the BESTMIX label information, it formats and prints the label on the bags. This gives the user more control over the printed label because every field on the label is an identified field in the label database.
The export function for exporting labels to a label database is extended in BESTMIX so that the user can set up fields in the label database and connect them with fields that are defined on the label template. Every time a product is exported with its label, these fields are automatically updated. This way, the fields in the label database are always up to date and the label printing software that uses these fields at runtime always prints the updated information without any human interaction.
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