Erbi invests in integrated management system from Sistrade

Erbi specializes in the manufacture of cartons for the pharmaceutical industry. It will implement the Sistrade MIS/ERP system across the business, covering the commercial department, estimates, production, purchases, stocks, scheduling, quality control and financial department. The objectives of the implementation are to shorten the delivery time of the finished product to the customer, optimize scheduling, and introduce more stringent quality control processes and precise post-press estimates.

Jakub Bielecki, the owner and managing director of Erbi, said: ‘Our strategy for the sustainable development of our company required a thorough clarification of objectives we want to achieve. We have set both short- and long-term objectives, and identified the tools that are necessary to achieve them. The main priority was an integrated information system. Leaving aside my intuition, I believe that the system should be the basis of all decision-making processes.

‘Certainly the implementation of Sistrade in Erbi will help us achieve our goals.’

Bielecki noted the supplier selection process lasted more than two years. ‘We were aware of the importance of this decision for the entire company. We have quickly learned that there is a great number of solution providers. First, we compared only those who have implementations in the packaging industry. Of course, not without visiting many European printing houses and actual comparison of the completed implementations. Ultimately, the whole Erbi team’s decision was unanimous.'

‘Both companies share the same philosophy, “act locally, think globally”,' he continued. 'We need a system that has proven itself in packaging printing sector in many countries. The contemporary packaging market is changing at an unbeatably fast pace. The ERP system is a tool that will work in our company for many years. It needs as efficiently to support our decisions both today and in a few years. It should be highly flexible and ready for upcoming changes, sometimes for those that we are not able to predict, despite the proven intuition. This is what we value, in addition to the know-how of Sistrade specialists, which is the result of dozens of implementations in the packaging industry and reflected in the software.’