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The HIFLEX cost-booking component facilitates accurate and efficient cost control through a comprehensive
set of cost collection and reporting tools. Production costs can be either entered manually or
collected automatically using JDF/JMF. Analysis of this data gives managers a comprehensive view of
costs vs. benefit and return on investment.
The cost-booking feature is used to record production time (including employee time sheets) and
direct costs (supplier invoices and material consumption). It is also integrated with the employee
database.
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The HIFLEX system offers a concurrent post-estimation. Order, performance
and sales results can be viewed in the order book via the cockpit function
"EIS" (rear image). When needed, particularly before an order billing, the
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Where SFDC (Shop Floor Data Collection) is not possible or not practical, time sheets are typically
utilized. The incoming time sheets from production are entered into the system and validated. In
addition to employee number, shift and working time, time sheets include details of all the work
steps carried out, correlated with cost center, order number, duration, production quantity, material
consumption and production notes. Supplier invoices and other material consumption related to an
order are entered as direct costs.
The historic-costing feature summarizes the variance between estimated and actual costs. All reports
can be customized using SQL. This allows customers to define key thresholds and metrics. If any of
these are violated, pertinent sections of the report are highlighted and additional detail can be
appended to the report. The system automatically identifies deviations between estimated and
actual costs. Analysis can be carried out down to individual printing sheets. Profit analysis clearly
differentiates between sales performance and production performance. It is also possible to compare
several orders and/or estimates; for example, the initial cost estimate, final production estimate and
actual costs can be compared.
Furthermore, costs can be recorded directly at the production stages where they are incurred,
through decentralized SFDC terminals. This alternative enables the use of barcode readers directly
connected to the print machinery. Further information on this topic is in
"SFDC and Production Status" and in
"CIP4 and the CIM Concept".
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