Every publisher knows the sobering reality of today's business: dwindling sales revenues and margins, increased competition from traditional and new media sources, rising postage and distribution costs, and fluctuating paper prices amid ever tightening deadlines. Your demanding business requires effective tools for planning and executing your print production needs, along with access to accurate and timely information from internal and external sources.

SmartSTOCK provides you with a comprehensive set of tools for paper procurement and inventory management. SmartSTOCK – like no other software – provides a fundamentally different way to manage the entire print production process, enabling you to efficiently manage the complete cycle from requirements estimation to paper inventory management, and accounting for paper consumption and waste. With SmartSTOCK, you can optimize and control your communication with supply chain partners, paper vendors and printers.

• Increases control over paper procurement, inventory management, consumption & waste
• Provides complete transaction management and performance monitoring capabilities
• Enables collaboration with global supply chain partners to reduce avoidable costs
• Supports contract negotiation process through detailed historical cost & performance data
• Promotes on-time issue delivery by increasing visibility into paper inventory levels
• Reduces losses due to aging inventory, inventory carrying costs, and excess storage costs
• Improves estimates of paper requirements at issue level, and forecasts for future issues
• Lowers time required to effectively manage the paper to print supply chain
• Increases data accuracy, provides consolidated information warehouse, reduces errors

• Provides web-based interface with step-by-step wizards for key functions & processes
• Integrates information flow between publishers, mills, and printers via EDI, XML, etc.
• Cleanses, validates, and classifies data received from supply chain partners in real time
• Produces "on-the-fly" analysis of usable, unusable, consumed and waste paper quantities
• Generates detailed waste reports by printer, press, and issue, vendor, lot, roll, time period
• Offers rich analytical tools for analyzing historical information and future scenarios
• Provides flexible, role-based security to manage access at multiple levels