TRACKER GIVES YOU THE EDGE.
Tracker gives you the edge by allowing you to follow your newsprint inventory from the origin of shipment through the pressroom. Based on the Graphic Communications Association's EMBARC specifications, Tracker ensures efficient inventory management, accurate up-to-the-minute information, and detailed customized reports. Best of all, Tracker is user-friendly and requires no extensive training program. A simple step-by-step guide allows you to integrate the program into your system quickly.
Tracker has numerous advantages including:
- Monitoring value of total inventory by basis weight and size and identifying location (in-transit, warehouse, and plant)
- Allowing user to track rolls by supplier and product
- Analyzing the cost and weight of paper used for each product from one day to one year
- Calculating newsprint reconciliation by product
- Identifying possible shipping errors by roll widths, roll diameters, and basis weight -- before the shipment arrives
- Recording all problems and breaks by roll, identifying whether it is vendor-related or pressroom related, and calculating cost of press down time
- Monitoring pressroom crews in relation to web breaks
- Tracking percent of recycled newsprint used
- Tracking butt rolls
Tracker assists in the analysis of current inventory, purchasing, consumption, newsprint runnability, and waste management. These valuable tools will help you make more effective decisions about purchasing, shipping, production, and maintenance. Call today to find out more about how the Bear Island Tracker can give you the edge.
To receive more information on Tracker capabilities, specifications, and minimum system requirements call Jim Vlahakis at 804-227-4012.
You may also email Jim at bearisld@ix.netcom.com
Soon after implementing the Tracker Newsprint Problem Control Feature, pressroom runnability improved dramatically and took our overall efficiency to new heights.
Prior to using Tracker, our average breaks per 100 was 6.6, which translated into 390 web breaks. After using Tracker our average was 1.9 or 110 web breaks. This is a reduction of 280 web breaks in a six month period. I call this significant.
Richard Meek,
Production Director -
Charleston Newspaper
I have been a Bear Island Tracker since 1990! And I will be a Bear Island Tracker user until I retire! With Tracker all the guesswork has vanished. I'm able to maintain computer files of all my usage and the actual cost. A complete and accurate inventory both on-hand and rolling and value by purchase price is available and up-to-date at all times. All this takes me an average of 30 minutes a day. I can't imagine managing a printing company without Tracker.
Roger S. Silvey, General Manager - Chesapeake Publishing Corporation, Waldorf Printing Division
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