# Print and Media: Order to Distribution Under Control

Order management, pre-press, production and distribution as one chain you can control. Actual margin the same day, without adding another piece of software.

Dargestellte Fassung: https://simo-online.com/en/why-simo/print-media

## Operational control for the print and media industry

Print & Media

In this industry, operational friction costs margin immediately. SIMO advises companies on connecting production, order management, pre-press and distribution into one chain they can actually control, without adding another tool to the ones you already run.

What print and media companies get at SIMO

When speed decides the margin, friction is a cost factor.

- Run order intake and production end to end
- Connect separate systems into one control layer
- Remove media breaks
- More throughput without additional headcount

The chain that has to come under control

Four sections that are usually run separately today. Only once they are connected do they show where margin is created and where it is lost.

## Order management

Costing, quotation and order all run on the same data. Changes to the order carry through into planning, without a phone call and without a second entry.

## Pre-press

Print data, approvals and revision states are assigned to one order unambiguously. Waiting time at the press no longer arises from missing approvals.

## Production

Run time, setup time and downtime are captured per order and set against the costing. You see the actual margin the same day, not in the monthly close.

## Finishing and distribution

Finishing, dispatch and proof of delivery close the order. Complaints can be traced back to their cause.

The result is not another piece of software, but control across the landscape you already run. You quantify friction instead of assuming it.