Prepress

Aicomp and Esko deepen their partnership with joint development

Wednesday 03. November 2021 - Since 2004, the Aicomp Group, a leading provider of ERP solutions for the packaging industry with locations in Europe and the USA, and Esko-Graphics BV with headquarters in Ghent Belgium, have been jointly implementing integration projects in the market.

Joint development of end-to-end integrated best-practice solutions that enable small and medium-sized packaging manufacturers to automatically calculate prices and determine optimal production routes
Since 2004, the Aicomp Group, a leading provider of ERP solutions for the packaging industry with locations in Europe and the USA, and Esko-Graphics BV, a global provider of integrated software and hardware solutions for packaging production with headquarters in Ghent / Belgium, have been jointly implementing integration projects in the market. Both companies have now announced that they will further deepen their successful cooperation in a certified partnership, in which they will pro-actively support each other and look to the future together.
“As a leading provider of complex SAP variant configurations and SAP cloud solutions, Aicomp specialises in ERP industry solutions in the packaging industry. Esko, with its market-leading solutions, covers the entire packaging production process from pre-press to finished products. The extremely successful cooperation of the past years has shown that our two companies complement each other ideally with their products and solutions and that we offer our customers real added value with integration projects. Within the framework of our deepened partnership, we will, among other things, develop preconfigured holistic and integrated best-practice solutions that can be flexibly adapted to individual customer requirements with manageable effort.
In doing so, we want to enable small and medium-sized companies in the industry in particular to optimise their processes end-to-end – from packaging design and quotation to production,” explains Christopher Weber, Regional Software Solutions Manager at Esko for the DACH region. Highlights of these end-to-end solutions will include options for automatic price calculation, quotation generation and determination of the optimal production routes in each case.
“Mainly for time and cost reasons, many smaller and medium-sized packaging manufacturers have so far refrained from integrating their processes. In addition, they usually lack the IT specialists to do so. Our best-practice solutions will already cover the basic requirements of an efficient packaging production in the standard version. That is why they can be realised quickly and with fixed budgets – and bring measurable benefits to our joint customers within a short time,” promises Jens Hennecke, CEO EMEA at Aicomp.
On the Esko side, depending on customer requirements, the best-practice solutions will include packaging development products such as ArtiosCAD and WebCenter with the associated data management and approval processes, through to the ArtPro+ and Automation Engine prepress solutions. Aicomp is contributing its entire software solutions portfolio, i.e. the SAP ERP add-on VC PowerPack for real-time costing, with SAP S/4HANA the next generation of SAP ERP as well as the SAP Sales Cloud from the SAP C/4HANA portfolio for customer relationship management.
The deep integration of these market-leading software products enables both companies to offer specialised total solutions in which seamless data transfer works reliably thanks to suitable interfaces and customers can therefore fully exploit the functionality of the integrated software products.
“Esko is a provider of total solutions for the value chain in packaging production and thinks uniquely far ahead, especially in the CAD environment. Integration with their solutions gives us a wide range of options for optimising the processes of our joint customers,” says Hennecke.
Weber: “Aicomp has comprehensive practical knowledge, focuses uncompromisingly on the packaging industry and has proven its unlimited reliability in many jointly realised, very demanding integration projects. Thanks to the cooperation with this company, we can extend our offerings to the entire administration of our joint customers. All this makes Aicomp the ideal partner for Esko.”
Jens Hennecke, CEO EMEA at Aicomp: “Esko is a provider of total solutions for the value chain in packaging production and thinks uniquely far ahead, especially in the CAD environment. The integration with their solutions gives us a wide range of options for optimising the processes of our joint customers.”
Weber: “Aicomp has comprehensive practical knowledge, directs its focus uncompromisingly to the packaging industry and has proven its unlimited reliability in many jointly realised, very demanding integration projects. Thanks to the cooperation with this company, we can extend our offerings to the entire administration of our joint customers. All this makes Aicomp the ideal partner for Esko.”
Jens Hennecke, CEO EMEA at Aicomp: “Esko is a provider of total solutions for the value chain in packaging production and thinks uniquely far ahead, especially in the CAD environment. The integration with their solutions gives us a wide range of options for optimising the processes of our joint customers.”
As part of their deepened partnership, Aicomp and Esko will, among other things, develop preconfigured holistic and integrated best-practice solutions that enable end-to-end process optimisation, especially for smaller and medium-sized packaging manufacturers. As a leading provider for complex SAP variant configurations and SAP partner for cloud solutions, Aicomp is an ideal partner for Esko here.