54 | Eshuis“We have three big new customers that decided to buy locally. For them, the price is less important than the assurance of continual supply”Combining runs by substrate for best uptime scheduling batches in reverse order, to be introduced soon.‘To maintain optimum productivity we schedule jobs with all the Last-minute order confrmation has been the norm at Eshuis same materials together, and make those combined run lengths for many years. as long as we can,’ Overbeek says. ‘Individual job length isn’t Overbeek comments: ‘A customer can place a job order a day important, so long as you can create batches effciently without before printing, and this is already what we do for many years. changing reel size or width. So, with the right planning, great We have multiple customers, who order 500 SKUs per week, and effciencies are possible.’ we have a fxed lead time of fve days. We already know we have Overbeek estimates production uptime on the HP Indigo 8K material and capacity available, and it runs very smoothly. presses to be about 65 percent. Weekly maintenance accounts ‘HP plays a big role in our strategy, which is focused on customer for seven hours, while make ready is no more than 10 minutes per intimacy,’ Overbeek says. ‘That means working very closely with reel, including substrate change and color calibration. Material customers to listen to what they need, and then organizing in the waste is little more than the 30m web path. Otherwise, apart from best way, so they can rely on us to get their material on time. And reel-change, the machines run continuously. with that performance, that we also measure, we know that we can grow with them.’Longer runs on the 8KOne of the longest jobs on Eshuis’s HP Indigo 8K is a 25,000m run Supply chainfor ‘mask printing’ of the square frames on Polaroid instant flms, Visitors to the open house heard from Bram Desmet, CEO of a campaign for the iconic camera brand that was revived in 2017. Solventure, a supply chain consultancy to retail and global A high-speed digital press was the only choice, as the high-volume businesses, based in Ghent, Belgium. He argues that supply chains print run comprises a series of different colors and special edition today are more critical than ever to overall corporate performance, designs. The press’ enhanced web guidance also makes it the and procurement is more concerned about supplier reliability than preferred choice, because of the PET flm’s sensitivity. ever before. Digital printing means a big data fow increase – and as digital According to Desmet, the challenge of providing extra services machines become faster and the volume grows, this creates a to customers without increasing costs and cash – the supply chain challenge in planning and fulfllment in fnishing. Eshuis is working triangle – was a struggle even long before the pandemic. with ERP provider Cerm on an automated Cloud-based solution, Sourcing goods from East Asia was cheaper but means longer NEXT-GENERATION SYNTHETIC PAPER BY YUPOWE MAY BE TOUGH ON PAPER, BUT WE’RE GENTLE ON THE EARTH:The newly launched YUPO ARS 80 is the latest generation of YUPO self-adhesive facestock that provides the ideal balance of YUPO’s excellent printability and durability, and a conscious and signifcant reduction of plastic resin used during its production.As a global leading producer of synthetic papers YUPO strives to continuously design products that target current environmental and societal concerns. And we believe that sometimes less can indeed be more.LACSYSC EMREMRBEYUPO SYNTHETIC PAPER PREMIUM SYNTHETIC SUBSTRATES PRINT | PACKAGE | LABEL | DESIGN WWW.YUPO.EU YUPO EUROPE GMBH02_0180_0394_Magazin L+L Anzeigen 2023.indd 2 02_0180_0394_Magazin L+L Anzeigen 2023.indd 2 24.01.23 10:2124.01.23 10:21labelsandlabeling.com