Radius Packaging ERP Software

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An ERP designed for the packaging industry, offering integrated tools for sales, production, inventory management, and financials.

Product Overview

Radius Packaging ERP software is an ERP software tailored for the packaging industry. It automates critical processes like sales order generation from estimates. Radius offers an extensive tool library with integrated check-out controls.

Key features include customer data maintenance, financial management, project accounting support, and built-in budgeting tools​. Radius also supports successful integration of both in and out EDI implementations.

Pros

  • User-friendly interface and reporting
  • Includes productivity functions that enhance capacity utilization and inventory control
  • Specialized features for labels, flexible packaging, folding cartons, etc.

Cons

  • Complex error correction process
  • Limited integrations with other industry tools

Target Market

Flexible packaging converters, tag and label converters, folding carton converters, film extruders, and digital and offset printing businesses. Suitable for a single plant, single company entities, and multinationals.

Radius Packaging ERP software is designed for enterprise packaging and label printing management. This software assists packaging companies in producing printed materials, including product labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging, and plastic extrusion.

Radius takes a comprehensive approach to business integration, offering features like BI tools and intelligent plant optimization. With its multi-language, multi-currency, multi-company, and multi-plant capabilities, Radius ensures flexibility, making it suitable for businesses of all sizes and locations.

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Key Features

This ERP encompasses several key functions:

  • Product-Specific Estimating: This tool offers precise estimating and production planning by using master estimate logic. It ensures cost-effective job routing through the plant and provides consistent and thorough quotes.
  • Sales Order Management and Accounting: The software eliminates non-value-add activities and optimizes operations.
  • Purchasing and Inventory Management: The ERP prioritizes efficiency through integrated and automated resource utilization processes.
  • Built-in Traceability: It ensures product traceability from raw materials to finished products, maintaining transparency and quality assurance for customers.
  • Waste Reduction: The Direct Machine Interface (DMI) minimizes job underruns and overruns, reducing waste and lowering employee time needed for order fulfillment.
  • Sustainability Focus: The software helps reduce energy consumption, optimize the supply chain, and minimize waste.
  • Outsource Management: The Outsource Manager feature streamlines requirement gathering, order placement, and material tracking with suppliers, including direct shipments from suppliers to customers.
  • Shop Floor Data Intelligence: Integration with the Auto-Count 4D solution provides live data collection and scheduling insights from the production environment.

Benefits

Key benefits of Radius include:

  • Enhanced Collaboration: The software facilitates the sharing of information among different departments, accelerating workflows and minimizing errors.
  • Improved Visibility: Radius offers better insight into the profitability of materials, jobs, customers, and more, enabling informed decision-making.
  • Automation: It can automate scheduling and optimize plant operations, leading to more efficient production processes.
  • Enhanced Forecasting: Companies can use Radius to forecast customer expectations and manage inventory levels more effectively.
  • Scalability: The software’s architecture is scalable, accommodating current needs and allowing for easy configuration to support future growth.
  • Industry Fit: Radius is tailored to the packaging industry, ensuring quick and seamless implementations and upgrades.

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User Reviews of Radius

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Submitted on June 29th, 2024 by Anonymous

Excellent experience. Software is complex but does what it does very well. Excellent support too.

The Good…

Solid in performance. Functionally-rich

The Bad…

Lack of integrations with pre-press systems

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Submitted on August 28th, 2019 by Anonymous

Software is archaic from an architecture standpoint, easily two decade-old technology, the core “radius” product receives few updates but EFI produces “new” products that integrate with the core software and sells it at outrageous prices, rather than including it in the core licensing…great for EFI’s bottom line, horribly expensive for the companies who use this software. Don’t; forget the nearly 20% annual licensing fees to get support and those few core product updates. Absolutely awful ERP option even for print/packaging companies.

The Good…

Really nothing, obviously there are features specific to print and packaging but this in no way brings the solution back to a positive.

The Bad…

Core Radius product built on decades old technology and architecture, “new” features are not part of core system, they must be licensed as new software with additional ~20% annual maintenance fees, support is poor, software is buggy.

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Submitted on June 3rd, 2019 by Anonymous

Nothing is streamlined. Whoever created this program seems to need to get themselves in check.

The Good…

nothing.

The Bad…

nothing is streamlined.

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Submitted on May 10th, 2019 by Anonymous

It performs like any other MRP system but like any other MRP system, they are all built for manufacturing widgets. Although this system claims to be built for the print packaging world, it does not customize very well to more specialized operations.

The Good…

It tracks a lot of data…almost to a fault. If you like numbers and trends, this is heaven.

The Bad…

Customization to specialized operations would help. Ability to remove much of what I do not use for my business.

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Submitted on October 22nd, 2018 by Anonymous

Constant disconnect issues. Counting is not accurate. Interface is not very simplified and streamlined . Not a very good system for anyone. You have to go to ten different things to find one thing. Who ever wrote this software is a moron.

The Good…

Nothing.

The Bad…

Everything.