The whole operation at your fingertips
As digitalization continues to transform supply chains, many of our customers are standardizing their commodities and focusing on areas where differentiation is needed.
TIPS industry solutions and services is a framework designed to support business transformation for industries such as pulp, paper, board, packaging, tissue and non-woven. Instead of generic solutions, TIPS provides readymade and proven industry specific workflows, which offer real-time transparency and efficiency to all areas of operation. Users get online access to all business processes and mill departments, as well as the information and optimization possibilities needed to make better decisions faster than ever before.
TIPS industry solutions and services is the leading industry-specific ERP and MES foundation and has already been installed in more than 300 locations worldwide.
Director Business Development | Paper & Board | Pulp, Paper & Fibre | Tietoevry Industry
We are your digital business transformation partner
Boost sales, cut waste, increase profit, improve OTIF rates, shorten lead times and improve customer loyalty with the one industry-specific solution.
TIPS for paper and board mills
Improve the efficiency and profitability of your business
You can achieve more sales with less waste, and an increased profit margin. Better OTIF (On Time In Full) delivery rates and shorter lead times will result in higher customer loyalty, thus an opportunity to improve your standing in a volatile market.
Cloud-based manufacturing execution system and Artificial Intelligence create new opportunities for the paper industry"Creative Artificial Intelligence, especially Generative AI (GenAI), is a key part of the ongoing technological transformation. We are committed to developing our product and service offering so that these opportunities are available to all our customers," say Jyri Jokinurmi. Jokinurmi notes that the migration of customers’ current software solutions to a next-generation cloud-based manufacturing execution system is running smoothly. Tietoevry’s service offering also includes cloud hosting and software services for the TIPS solution. Read the whole article: in English, Finnish
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Key benefits
Better customer service
Orders from multiple channels are automatically processed, giving instant and reliable feedback. Our customer service and self-service tools provide immediate answers and advises for execution.
Improved operational efficiency
Improved resource planning includes automatic planning, optimisers and intelligent operator support to increase efficiency as well as cost savings, reductions in trim waste and lower inventories.
Business agility and transparency
Integrated systems, automated planning and full transparency enable you to make changes without the loss of operational efficiency. Improvements are immediately visible in daily operations.
TIPS components
Sales, logistics and production planning
TIPS planning suite maximise profitability throughout the supply chain, optimize fulfilling of customer orders and ensure operational efficiency. Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) creates a profit optimized supply plan controlling order intake, automatic Availability/Capacity To Promise check and enterprise wide inventory management. Finally, trim and detailed scheduling optimisers minimize waste and setup times on the shop floor.
Order-to-Cash
The Order-to-Cash process manages customer orders, production, delivery of goods to the customer and invoice creation for accounting. TIPS is tightly integrated with SAP ERP, enabling the use of standard SAP with industry-specific extensions. TIPS has also a comprehensive sales order processing module designed for our customer industries enabling immediate automatic order confirmation and multileg logistics with manual/EDI-based communication.
Production and quality
TIPS takes care of material traceability, starting from received raw materials up to finished goods delivered. The system tracks waste components including machine time, material and quality-based waste. For order fulfilment, TIPS minimises unnecessary over- or underproduction ensuring the correct amounts are produced. In an industry with a high degree of automation, TIPS supports process automation towards operator-free manufacturing.
Production materials
TIPS BoM (Bill of Materials) is a complete material management tool for all production, coating and wrapping processes. It provides recipe handling as well as managing the raw material stocks, tracking actual and planned consumption, and proposing purchase orders for raw material re-ordering.
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TIPS costing provides calculation of standard products. Using the consumptions from TIPS BoM, it computes actuals and variances in the cost tracking process. Simulation functions are available to achieve profitability-based raw material planning. For industries where easy article configuration is needed, our price calculator provides accurate calculations in the offering process before manufacturing and comparison with the actuals afterwards.
Data, analytics and KPIs
Our Reporting and Business Intelligence (BI) tools describe what happened in the past and by using statistical models can predict what will happen in the future. Advanced analytics provides predictive (what will happen), diagnostic (why it happened) and prescriptive (what should be done) analytics. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) provide new ways to perform analyses.
Integrations
TIPS Integrations are based on standard interfaces to integrate our industry components with ERP and automation. The automation integration library contains ready-made interfaces with most of the devices commonly used in the industry. Additionally, integration with external parties, such as customers, suppliers, service providers, partners and other systems are available as well as integration services for ecosystem hubs.
Process information management
TIPS Info is a Process Information management system for pulp, paper, board and nonwoven industries. Main benefits: • Consolidate information from several mill systems to form a common base for mill overview, analysis and optimization. • Provide real-time process information for visualization and decision making for all users in all levels. The solution is provided by MOPSsys AB.
Services
Our comprehensive portfolio includes TIPS specific services (e.g. consulting, projects, upgrade, problem solving, optimisation, benchmarking, E2E integration, TIPS SaaS, 24/7 Application Management Services) and getting more out of data (AI, analytics, data platforms, archiving, B2B messaging and ecosystem hubs). We also provide customer project services (e.g. resourcing and management) and our ecosystem partners' integrated solutions & services.
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