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Demand Estimating
The Print On Demand (POD) market is very different from the litho printing world. POD shops typically operate in an environment with much faster turnaround times, often expected to provide same-day service. Also, your estimators do not typically have the 10+ years of experience you often see in litho estimating.
Your Demand Estimating tool needs to be fast, intuitive and easy-to-learn. Avanti’s Demand Estimating module provides the intuitive tools to build your POD estimates.
Highlights include:
- Supports limitless pricing methodologies ideal for the dynamic world that is POD
- User-selected “Fast Keys” allow “one click” access to your 12 most common operations
- Supports “Digital job tickets”’; presenting only relevant information in easy-to-read format, eliminating all the complexity of the litho job ticket
- Create and price a job “on the fly” without an estimate
- Customizable cost and pricing formulas accommodate any type of production machine used in your environment
- Create a single, combined estimate with both offset and digital components ideal for hybrid plants with both digital and litho presses
- Predefined standard “Products and Kits” for quick and easy estimating
- “The Accumulator” features discounts based on total quantity ordered from multiple jobs submitted at the same time
- Recalculating a job with a different quantity is just a single click away, even for complex jobs like binders