SAM Production Planning & Control SystemTM                                   

SAM, Muller Martini’s Production Planning and Control System, is a comprehensive, centralized system that allows you to coordinate information and product flow from all areas of your operation.  With today’s growing demands, SAM enables you to integrate with partner systems to gather critical information and formulate a cohesive plan that fulfills all of your packaging and delivery requirements.  From traditional newspaper applications to the most sophisticated distribution schemes, SAM manages all data types while monitoring the performance of your operations with production audit reports to ensure package accuracy and insert accountability for readers and advertisers alike.  In addition, SAM enables real-time production adjustments to remedy run shortages, late trucks, breaking news, and any other unforeseen obstacles.

Interactive Production Planning and Management
SAM provides a centralized platform to schedule production for all of your packaging needs, including any newspaper and commercial applications.  By simplifying zoning, distribution and other key parameters of production into one program, planners are able to manage all parts of their operation and formulate the optimal packaging plan.  With real-time monitoring and reporting, SAM enables on-demand adjustments to balance unexpected changes and analyze valuable reports for your operations, including:

► Advertising
► Circulation/Distribution
► Packaging 
► Production Statistics
► Postal Addressing Reports
► Selective Inserting

Integration
Whether its Muller Martini control software or alternative provider’s packaging equipment, SAM seamlessly integrates with them.  SAM communicates with the following:

► Entire Family of LincsTM products from Muller Martini
► Compensating Stackers
► Tie Lines
► Conveyors 
► Bundle Distribution Systems
► Cart Loaders
► Palletizers
► Warehouse Management System

Support
► Knowledgeable Staff for Quick Answers
► 24/7/365 Support for Critical Issues
► Timely Problem Resolution 
► Comprehensive Training and Implementation
► Ongoing Training Programs

SAM TracksTM Material Tracking     

Muller Martini’s SAM TracksTM, a warehouse management system, provides you complete receiving and inventory management tools to efficiently carry out your daily operational needs.  SAM TracksTM seamlessly integrates with other components of your production systems, enabling you to sustain a high level of productivity and be more accountable to your advertiser’s demands.  The benefits of SAM TracksTM include a reduction in overall operating costs and labor hours, tracking and reducing waste and improving the distribution accuracy of received and completed products. 

As a more complex market emerges, advertisers will have a greater need for regionalization of material as well as stressing finer zoning requirements for their products, resulting in additional responsibility assumed by receiving and warehouse management department.  With SAM TracksTM, inserts are monitored in real-time, from the time they are received to the time they are shipped, providing you the best solution for your material handling process.  

From thorough management of individual inserts to the complete and final package, Muller Martini’s SAM TracksTM, ensures greater accuracy and delivery accountability. 

Integration
SAM TracksTM directly interfaces with SAM Production Planning and Control System, allowing you to administer complete control of your product beginning with your advertising order reservation through the receiving, storage, order picking, auto-consumption and product distribution process, further enriching your material handling management.  SAM TracksTM also makes it possible to reduce manual errors, expedite the receiving process and streamline storage all the way through inserter consumption by easily communicating   
        with the following devices/systems:

► SAM Production Planning and Control System
► Aurosys ASRS
► FMC AGVCS
► Scanner / digital camera 
► Piece Scale – Piece Weight
► Pallet/Floor Scale – Pallet Weight
► Thickness Gauge Caliper – Piece Thickness
► Printers – Thermal or Laser for Bar-Coded Labels