One order. Five components. Which one is holding it up?
Which component is behind. Whether the pasting table is keeping up. How long that customer has been sitting on the approval.
Three box makers. Each one was late for a reason they were not recording.
A rigid box is not one job. It is a lid, a base, a wrap, a board and often an insert — five things being made at once, in different places, by different people.
The order is only as fast as the slowest of the five. And almost nobody tracks them separately. The job card says one job, so the board says one job.
Four components finished on day four. The order shipped on day nine, waiting for one.
Machines are measured. Hand work is not.
Pasting and assembly are where a rigid box actually takes its time, and it is entirely people. Two men absent on a Tuesday and the whole week moves — but nobody records that as the reason. It shows up later as a late delivery with no explanation attached.
Week three was not a mystery once the output was written down next to who was in.
A sample goes to the customer for approval. Then it waits.
Nobody is chasing it, because chasing it is nobody's specific job. The order sits in the system as in progress when in truth it has not moved for nine days and is not going to until somebody calls.
Approvals older than three days now turn red on a screen that the salesperson also sees.
A box does not get late all at once. It gets late in one component, at one table, waiting for one email.
Every stage. Every bottleneck. Every opportunity.
This is how a print job moves through your business. Clicarity gives you live visibility at every phase — and flags delays before they become client calls.
What improves in rigid box manufacturing businesses using Clicarity
Questions from rigid box manufacturers
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