STRAQ Global
STRAQ Global is the software to control, monitor and report on your key newsprint assets by capturing critical production and logistics information, delivering 67 different consolidated reports. Years of print-industry process experience is at your fingertips to help you increase your operational efficiency.
Product overview
The key functionality of the STRAQ Global solution adds value to your critical operations by:
- Providing inventory control & visibility on current stock levels on a per-site basis
- *NEW* Keeping you informed of the self-defined events that matter such as excessive waste or production problems, whenever they occur, wherever you are via email and SMS*
(*SMS requires a gateway application) - Logging and tracking your paper assets from the moment they enter the warehouse to the moment the printed papers leave
- Providing you with a detailed Stock Summary overview of your paper assets, be it by weight, cost or reel count
- Tracking reels used on jobs, by customer and edition, right down to machine level, with accurate usage and wastage statistics
Providing operations-related reports for scheduling and improvement initiatives related to:
- Condition: Run-problem reports by Job or Edition,
down to machine level. - Wastage and damage per Job.
- Consumption: by Tonnage, Job, Edition, Supplier or paper type.
- Performance: Timings and per-job/edition performance for reporting to customers.
Providing key financial reports for management accounting:
- Profitability: by print job, by owner, edition or date, including ink and plates, where data is collected, for a TCO perspective
- Wastage control: amount of cost and wastage, reason for wastage, returns, stock availability
- Seamless automatic reporting to Head Office. All relevant site-entered data is securely transmitted to a central Head Office system (*using SSL where required) according to your schedule. Remote Head Office management personnel (i.e. personnel located in a site other than at the printing presses themselves) have immediate access to all reports, up-to-date print job information and all stock and usage data from each of the connected sites.

