At 100+ tonnes per day, manual coordination fails at the seams: between shifts, between machines, between plants, and between your production system and your ERP. Deckle Plus Suite provides the API connectivity, audit trail depth, and multi-facility architecture that large integrated operations require.
A large paper group running three plants, eight machines, and 300+ t/day combined output has production management problems that small-mill tools (including sophisticated spreadsheets) cannot solve. The problems are structural: data is siloed per plant, ERP systems don't speak to production floors, and audit trail requirements from large customers demand traceability at a granularity that paper records cannot provide.
A paper group operating a 150 t/day Kraft mill and a 120 t/day Duplex board mill at separate facilities managed both plants independently, with separate Excel systems, separate inventory records, and a weekly phone call between production managers to reconcile orders shared across both plants.
The group's largest customer, a pan-regional packaging converter, began requiring EDI-compatible dispatch confirmations and audit trail documentation for all paper orders above 20 tonnes. The group's existing paper-and-Excel system could not produce these documents at the required granularity. The account was at risk.
After deploying Deckle Plus Suite across both plants, all eight machines were configured under one group account. Customer orders entered at the head office were visible to planners at both plants. FIFO inventory was tracked separately per plant but visible to group management in the consolidated dashboard. The REST API was used to feed dispatch confirmations from Deckle Plus directly into the customer's procurement portal, satisfying the EDI requirement. The account was retained.
Result
The at-risk large customer account was retained. Group-level waste visibility was established for the first time. The head office production review went from a 90-minute weekly call to a 15-minute dashboard review.
The Suite plan's REST API enables bi-directional data exchange with SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, TallyPrime, and custom ERP systems. Inbound: customer orders can be created in Deckle Plus via API from your ERP's sales order module. Outbound: dispatch confirmations flow back to the ERP automatically on run close.
Multiple plants are managed under one group account. Each plant has its own machines, paper types, and inventory. Group management sees consolidated production, waste, and inventory dashboards across all plants simultaneously, with no inter-plant phone calls needed.
Every action in Deckle Plus is timestamped and attributed to a named user: order creation, run confirmation, pattern change, waste event, run closure, challan generation. This audit trail is immutable and searchable, satisfying the traceability requirements of large retail, FMCG, and government procurement standards.
The Suite plan places no limits on the number of machines, production lines, or user accounts under a group deployment. A 10-machine, 3-plant group with 30 planner and operator users is supported without additional per-seat charges.
Enterprise deployments receive a 99.9% uptime SLA, dedicated onboarding support, and a named account manager. Priority support with a 4-hour response time is available for production-critical issues during shift hours.
Specific questions about how Deckle Plus handles this use case.
The Deckle Plus REST API accepts customer order creation requests in JSON format that map to SAP's SD (Sales and Distribution) order structure. An integration script (typically written in Python or Node.js) runs on your SAP middleware layer and pushes sales orders to Deckle Plus when they are confirmed in SD. On run close, Deckle Plus posts a dispatch confirmation event to a webhook your SAP system subscribes to. Standard SAP integration implementation takes 5–10 working days depending on your SAP configuration. Deckle Plus provides API documentation and integration support.
Yes. Multi-facility management is a core Suite plan feature. Each plant is configured as a separate facility under the group account. Each facility has its own machines, paper types, and inventory ledger. Group admins see a consolidated view across all facilities; plant managers see only their facility's data. User permissions are configured per facility; a planner at one plant cannot modify runs at another plant unless explicitly granted cross-facility access.
Deckle Plus Enterprise deployments carry a 99.9% monthly uptime SLA, equivalent to less than 44 minutes of downtime per month. Planned maintenance windows are notified 72 hours in advance and scheduled outside shift hours. In the event of unplanned downtime, the SLA provides service credits. A named account manager is assigned for all enterprise accounts and provides direct escalation support.
Large FMCG customers typically require: lot-level traceability (which parent reels went into which order), production date, machine used, operator responsible, and waste event log per batch. Deckle Plus provides all of this per production run, accessible at any time through the run history. On customer request, the run record can be exported as a PDF audit document containing all traceability data. This satisfies the documentation requirements of Tier 1 FMCG procurement teams without any additional manual record-keeping.
A two-plant, six-machine deployment typically completes in 5–7 working days: Day 1–2: group account setup, machine configuration for all six machines, paper type and customer master data import. Day 3–4: first production runs at each plant with onboarding engineer support, operator training for floor execution screens. Day 5–6: management dashboard review, REST API configuration if required, integration testing. Day 7: sign-off and handover to the named account manager for ongoing support. Subsequent plants added to the group account go live in 1–2 days.
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