Malnove (Folding Cartons)

Productivity Software
Case Study
Staying Ahead of the Game:
Malnove Maintains Market
Leadership with Radius ERP
Malnove has been a pioneer in the use of
computerized packaging plant management, having
installed a Radius ERP system in 1999, at a time when
few packaging converters had begun to automate
their business and production workflow. Over the
years, Malnove’s Radius implementation has been a
competitive advantage for the company, providing a
business and production workflow backbone to enable
profitable growth. As volumes and job complexity
have increased in a multiplant environment, the
ability to access real-time business and production
data across four geographically dispersed plants has
helped Malnove be a better partner for its brand owner
customers.
“Not only has the number and complexity of jobs
grown,” points out John Samuelson, Malnove’s
IT director, “but time to market has also become
increasingly critical. Without a robust, packagingspecific ERP system, it would have been very difficult
to evolve our business in the manner that we have,
staying both profitable and competitive, as well as
extremely responsive to the needs of our brand owner
clients.”
Staying Ahead of the Game
Radius was a key element in the company’s ability
to implement an optimized, integrated workflow.
Through real-time access to business and production
data, the company was able to make better decisions,
produce a higher-quality product and reduce waste
and inefficiencies.
“Without a robust, packaging-specific ERP
system, it would have been very difficult
to evolve our business in the manner
that we have, staying both profitable
and competitive, as well as extremely
responsive to the needs of our brand
owner clients.”
JOHN SAMUELSON, IT DIRECTOR
MALNOVE
Over time, Malnove has stayed current with enhancements in the
Radius system, leveraging advanced capabilities to improve processes
even more. “One of the biggest advantages of having a multiplant
ERP system in place,” Samuelson says, “is the ability to efficiently
run a single job across multiple plants. With Radius, we benefit from
a unified view of production capacity and deadline management,
making it easy to meet the needs of customers who want packaging
produced and shipped to multiple locations across the country for
filling.”
Founded more than 60 years
ago, Malnove delivers true, totalpackaging solutions based on its
unique knowledge of its customers’
business and related brands. From its
production facilities in Jacksonville,
Fla., Omaha, Neb., Clearfield, Utah,
and Kapolei, Hawaii, Malnove
delivers folding carton innovation by
emphasizing intelligent packaging
design. The company is focused on
its customers’ top-line, retail goals
while delivering on bottom-line
metrics, offering continuous process
improvement through collaborative
supply relationships.
Malnove is also a pioneer in
automated packaging systems,
creating innovations that allow it to
be more responsive to customers’
speed-to-market needs while
making the packaging process more
sustainable. The company’s early
innovations in flat-packed folding
carton design allowed customers to
form, fill and seal cartons in-line with
production. Flat packaging, which
Malnove began developing decades
ago, has saved significant amounts of
money and natural resources through
reduced shipping costs. Additional
Malnove inventions, such as its StackRite™ and SmartBlank™ packaging,
provide even greater sustainable
advantages and reduce customers’
costs.
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Samuelson explains that producing packaging in geographic
locations that are closer to the point of need not only saves time
and shipping costs, it reduces the overall environmental footprint for
Malnove and its clients. “This is becoming increasingly important,”
he says, “not only because of the rising costs of shipping but
also due to increased attention that brand owners are paying to
environmental sustainability across all of their operations, including
the environmental footprint of the packaging supply chain.”
More than 70 Malnove employees across multiple sites use Radius
on a daily basis, for everything from estimating and scheduling to
accounting and customer service.
By utilizing a centralized system, Malnove can immediately see
how changes might impact deadlines. Malnove is preparing for an
upgrade to its Radius systems, one that will also allow the company’s
CAD/CAM design professions to interface with the ERP system. Once
that happens, Malnove’s designers will be able to quickly determine
how design changes affect the cost or durability of the final product –
a key concern for a company that has its own, patented designs that
use lighter-weight carton stock without sacrificing carton strength.
Growth with EFI
Samuelson is pleased with EFI’s acquisition of Radius in 2010, saying,
“EFI brought additional resources and new expertise to the Radius
team. As a result, we have seen many enhancements to the system
since Radius became part of the EFI family of printing and packaging
ERP solutions.”
“Optimizing press utilization is critical to our business,
and with the Radius scheduling module, we have
been able to keep utilization as high as possible.”
JOHN SAMUELSON, IT DIRECTOR
MALNOVE
EFI Radius scheduling capabilities help Malnove optimize its many short-run, fast-turnaround jobs.
Of particular value is the ability to provide multiple estimates for a
single job and enhancements to the scheduling module that make
it easier for Malnove to optimize production across its national
footprint. “With the enhanced scheduling capability,” Samuelson
notes, “we have found that jobs are scheduled more efficiently plus,
we are able to make better use of our human resources, especially
in aligning work shifts to meet pressing customer deadlines. We can
quickly calculate the best way to allocate work across the production
platform and ensure we have appropriate staffing to prevent missed
deadlines.”
One example of these efficiencies at work is Malnove’s ability, using
EFI Radius Scheduling, to ensure that jobs are balanced in a way that
gets short-run, fast-turnaround jobs out the door quickly without
jeopardizing delivery schedules for long-run jobs.
Standards Compliance
“We have many more orders
to process today than we
had when we first installed
Radius, and we believe the
R&D investments EFI has
made with the product will
provide additional benefits in
our upgrade.”
JOHN SAMUELSON
IT DIRECTOR
MALNOVE
The operating structure enabled by Malnove’s EFI Radius
implementation has been a key element in the company’s ability to
gain ISO 9001 certification and superior ratings from the American
Institute of Baking for its food packaging operations. ”We will
continue to provide EFI with feedback and take advantage of the new
capabilities they bring to market as a result, based on suggestions
from us and from other packaging converters. EFI has been a good
partner for us as we continue to grow our business.”
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