Custom spare parts management software for printing presses
Appfront builds software for suppliers and service companies of printing machines who want to deliver parts quickly and correctly. Every machine is recorded with its serial number and configuration, so you can see at a glance which parts fit each machine. A request raised during downtime is given priority, showing the lead time from your own stock, the consignment stock at the customer or the manufacturer. This way the right part is delivered the first time.
What is software for parts supply for printing machines?
A printing press that stands still costs a printing company money every hour. The part needed must arrive quickly, and it must fit. With printing presses that is not straightforward: the same machine exists in many versions, manufacturers replace parts with successors, and a machine that runs for years is modified along the way. The serial number and configuration determine what fits.
In practice, the parts department looks up the part in a manufacturer's drawing, phones the technician to ask which version it is, and checks the stock to see if it is there. If it isn't, the manufacturer is emailed for a lead time. A wrong part is sent and comes back. And the consignment stock at the customer's site has not been updated, so something is ordered that is already there.
We build custom because suppliers differ: which brands and machines you maintain, how you obtain part data from the manufacturer, whether you hold stock at customers' sites, and which systems you use for orders and service. Where possible, part data comes directly from the manufacturer, so it doesn't have to be entered by hand.
Parts per machine
Per machine, by serial number and configuration, the parts that fit, including successors.
Priority for downtime
A request during downtime takes precedence, with the fastest source and an accurate lead time.
Stock visible everywhere
Your own stock and consignment stock at customers' sites in one overview, with manufacturers' lead times.
How we build your software for printing press parts supply
We start with your parts: which brands and machines, where the parts data comes from, where stock is held, and where things go wrong. The integration between machine and part is often the hardest bit. We build that from the manufacturer's data and your own history, so you know per serial number what fits.
Your brands, machines, part data, stock and systems.
Machines per customer with configuration, and the parts that fit.
Requests with priority for downtime, source and lead time.
Integration with ERP, service and manufacturers, followed by management.
What printing press parts supply software concretely does
The components below appear with almost every printing press supplier. Which you need depends on your service.
Machine register
Machines by serial number and configuration.
Matching parts
Parts per machine, including successors.
Applications
From the customer or technician, with priority.
Stock
Your own stock and consignment stock at customers' sites.
Lead times
Orders and lead times with manufacturers.
Exchange parts
Overhaul and exchange parts tracked.
For whom we build printing press parts supply software
The software is intended for those who supply parts for printing presses.
Importers
Many machines across many customers. The machine register is the core.
Service companies
Technicians on the road. The priority request matters most.
Print companies
An in-house technical service. The consignment stock is what is needed.
Parts suppliers
Parts for multiple brands. The successors are the core.
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This page is about parts for printing presses. For printing companies in general, see our page on printing company software; for service parts in other sectors, our page on service parts software; and for ordering from drawings, our page on ordering parts from exploded-view drawings. You can read about our approach on software development.
Why Appfront for your printing press parts supply software?
A wrong part for a machine that is down costs the customer a second day. That is what we build on: parts per machine, priority for downtime, and stock that is visible everywhere.
Right first time
The part fits this serial number.
Delivered faster
The fastest source when a machine is down.
No duplicate purchasing
Consignment stock counts.
Security and privacy in parts supply software for printing presses
The software holds data on customers, machines, prices and stock. Access is set up by role, and a customer sees only their own machines and requests in a portal.
The software runs in a European data centre, with encrypted storage, daily back-ups and sign-in with a second factor.
Frequently asked questions about parts supply software for printing presses
Questions that printing press suppliers ask before they get started.
It keeps track of each customer's machines by serial number and configuration, shows the parts that fit each machine, processes requests with priority for downtime, tracks your own and consignment stock and manufacturers' lead times, and follows exchange and overhaul parts.
From the manufacturer where possible, from drawings, parts lists or a file. In addition, from your own history: which parts have been supplied for which machine. Together, these give a reliable picture per serial number of what fits.
A request can be flagged as downtime. The software then looks for the fastest source: your own stock, consignment stock at a nearby customer, or the manufacturer, and shows the expected lead time. This lets the customer plan.
Parts that sit at the customer's site but remain yours until they are used. The software tracks what is where, what has been used, and what needs to be replenished and invoiced.
If a manufacturer replaces a part with a new number, you record the relationship. A request for the old number shows the new one, and stock of the old part is used first where that is permitted.
Yes, provided it has an interface. Orders, stock and invoices run through the ERP, and the service system passes on requests from technicians.
Check this first. An ERP knows items and stock, but often not which parts fit which serial number. Custom development makes sense if you service many machines in many configurations, hold consignment stock, or want to prevent wrong deliveries.
The right part, the first time?
Tell us which machines you service, where your parts data comes from and where stock is held. We will show you what the machine file, the requests and the stock look like.