Whatever your operation, Abaca’s intelligent packaging system is designed to suit your needs. Whether you are in corrugated, paper products or distribution, we offer a complete solution to bring together all areas of your business within a centralized software package. Integration ensures data is only entered once, helping to improve efficiency and reduce errors. The consistent look and feel of each area of the software helps users to learn and gain confidence more easily than if operating different packages for different tasks. This fully integrated system allows authorised users unprecedented access to current, meaningful information subject to access permissions.

Abaca’s Global 3000 accounting functionality goes way beyond statutory reporting. That’s because business today demands multi-dimensional analysis of revenues, costs, cash flow, and assets – down to any level of detail. Global 3000 offers full multi-company and multi-currency processing, with unlimited profit centres and the option to retain as much historical data as you require. The combination of extensive built-in analysis functions and easy data exchange with industry standard tools makes for a uniquely powerful management reporting system.

• General Ledger caters perfectly for companies with highly individual management accounting needs.
• Debtors Ledger maintains accurate control of your customer transactions and works with Packaging 3000 to provide real time credit and terms checking.
• Creditors Ledger maintains accurate control of your supplier transactions and works with Packaging 3000. The module includes full payment facilities and banking integration.
• Cash Manager provides a simple reconciliation between the accounting ledgers and your bank statements. A must have for the new HMRC make tax digital requirements.

Our electronic document generation system creates digitally encrypted, tamper-proof Adobe documents which can be sent by EDI, emailed, or printed as required. Copies are not required as the system automatically files every instance of every generation of a document for simple retrieval on demand.

• A paperless solution is realised as each document is stored in a secure, encrypted PDF file on your server.
• Simple retrieval of any document image with details of how and when it was sent.
• Email to reduce overheads for long invoice or statement runs to eliminate folding, envelopes and postage.

Abaca includes a comprehensive suite of operational and management reports for packaging manufacturers. Each is delivered directly to your screen either as a pdf file or as an Excel spread sheet. You can then view, print. save or email giving you all the output options you might need.

• Reports can be filed electronically as encrypted PDF files, saving on paper and storage. Microsoft Excel format is also available.
• Print or distribute by e-mail selected sections of very long reports.
• Standardized report formats for easy readability.
• Sales colleagues can connect remotely to produce reports in preparation for client meetings.

Our visual planning board enables the scheduler to have a clear view of the whole production plan across all machines. Different scheduling algorithms enable you to select the scheduling method best suited to your plant after which individual jobs can be moved around and even across machines with all of their related stages moving in harmony.

• Multi-site scheduling
• Real-time view of machine/factory capacity
• Multi-stage scheduling
• Drag and drop overrides

Abaca’s integrated CRM system ensures customer service-related data is not duplicated. Workflows can be triggered manually or automatically to deal with a range of activity such as ensuring sales representatives follow up enquiries or that tooling is ordered when an order is received for a new product.

Whether you are in corrugated, paper products, or distribution, Abaca’s flexible packaging manufacturing software can be tailored to fit your unique industry needs. Additional modules include:

• Customer Portal: Portal 3000 is a multi-device solution which connects managers/reps and customers directly to the Abaca system 24/7, 365 days a year. Reps can now access key data on the move with sales figures and customer account information at the tip of their fingers. For management on the move, Portal 3000 allows instant access to company financials, sales performance, production statistics wherever and whenever needed. Accessible via internet browser or mobile phone app, your key business metrics will be accessible whenever you want them.
• Bar Coding Upgrade: RF 3000 provides bar-coded stock control without wires for maximum stock accuracy. Upgrade your Packaging 3000 stock control system by adding RF devices to bring material into stock, move goods around warehouses, and load vehicles. Stock taking can be done on a rotational basis and a stock check is as simple as scan and go.