Complete Design & Packaging is on a mission to create better packaging and display solutions. Based in Concord, NC with 200+ employees, CDP designs and manufactures custom corrugated packaging and displays. Their high-speed printing delivers high-quality, intricate designs with a commitment to investing in the latest technology to give their packaging a competitive edge.
CDP seeks to cultivate brand excellence and foster a community of innovators who positively impact one another. Through creative packaging and display solutions, they create a lasting experience for all customers.
The challenge
CDP, a long-standing Amtech Encore ERP customer, has relied on Amtech’s solutions for a wide range of operations, from order entry to production, shipping, and invoicing. Despite their positive experience with Amtech, they faced challenges in effectively analyzing and visualizing their data. To address these challenges, CDP sought a solution that could provide real-time insights into shipping performance, production, sales, and financial performance. The goal was to democratize data across the organization, making it accessible and understandable for everyone.
The solution
Complete Design and Packaging recognised the need for a powerful data analysis tool to enhance their operations and decision-making capabilities. After careful evaluation, they selected Amtech’s Visual Analytics solution, drawn to its intuitive interface and customizable dashboards. The user-friendly nature of the tool made it easy for employees across the organization to access and understand the data, empowering them to make informed decisions.
Amtech’s Visual Analytics is a management-focused solution that collects then serves valuable business intelligence from the entire family of solutions in real time, it allows users to make decisions improving business performance and success. An aggregation tool that sorts through multiple layers of data, Visual Analytics delivers preconfigured and custom dashboards, eliminating the need for multiple systems to produce reports from stale, out-of-date data. Leverage information that is easy to understand and up-to-the-moment simply provided to you through intuitive views.
Benefits and impact
For CDP, they have significantly benefitted from roll-out of Amtech’s solution. This includes:
- Improved decision making: Visual Analytics has empowered CDP to make data-driven decisions across various departments. By quickly analyzing key metrics, they can identify trends, optimize operations, and allocate resources more effectively;
- Enhanced collaboration: the ability to share interactive dashboards has fostered better collaboration among teams and improved communication;
- Increased efficiency: Visual Analytics has helped streamline processes and identify areas for improvement, leading to increased efficiency and cost savings;
- Enhanced reporting: the tool has enabled the company to generate customized reports and presentations, providing valuable insights for management and stakeholders.
“Amtech’s Visual Analytics has been a gamechanger for our business. It has provided us with the insights we need to make datadriven decisions and improve our overall performance. The user-friendly interface and customisable dashboards make it easy for our team to access and understand the data,” said Scott Sumner, Vice President, CDP.
Scott Sumner, Vice President, Complete Design & Packaging.
Future plans
Complete Design and Packaging says that it is excited to explore the potential of Amtech’s Visual Analytics (AVA) in further enhancing their operations. Future plans include:
- Streamlining accounts payable and receivable: leveraging AVA to automate report generation and improve efficiency in financial management;
- Optimising shipping operations: Utilising AVA to track on-time shipments more effectively and gain valuable insights into shipping performance;
- Enhancing quality control: integrating AVA with quality data to analyse printing and cutting performance, identify areas for improvement, and ensure consistent product quality.
“Amtech’s Visual Analytics has played a vital role in helping us achieve our business goals. By providing a powerful tool for data analysis and visualisation, the solution has enabled us to make more informed decisions, improve efficiency, and enhance overall performance,” concluded Scott Sumner.
