Name: Building the Business Case for Cloud Migration
Start: 2024-11-19T13:59:00Z
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Loftware  is the world’s largest cloud-based Enterprise Labeling and Artwork Management provider, offering an end-to-end labeling solution platform for companies of all sizes. Maintaining a global presence with offices in US, UK, Germany, Slovenia, China, and Singapore, Loftware boasts over 35 years of expertise in solving labeling challenges. We help companies improve accuracy, traceability and compliance while improving the quality, speed, and efficiency of their labeling.

Date: March 18, 2025
Time: 10am ET/ 3pm CET
Kao Corporation, a global leader in beauty and wellness brands, faced challenges in their packaging artwork processes, including manual reviews, limited visibility, and no audit trail. With a complex network of contributors, they sought an innovative solution to streamline workflows and boost efficiency.

Join this insightful session to learn how Kao uses Loftware Smartflow to:

    Simplify artwork review and approval processes
    Cut project approval times by 80%
    Enhance visibility with an end-to-end audit trail
    Automate revision control for thousands of SKUs

Register now to learn how you company can transform its artwork management, enhance collaboration, and speed time-to-market with Loftware Smartflow.

How Kao Revolutionized Artwork Management for Seamless Efficiency

Orion is a globally operating Finnish pharmaceutical company who develop, manufacture, and market human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. The Packaging Technology department, crucial to Orion's operations, oversees the management of printed secondary materials, which includes handling artwork management. Their artwork design team creates, and updates artwork based on requests, while secondary material specialists manage the overall process.

Orion faced several challenges with their previous artwork management system including complex label approval processes, maintenance and support issues, and lack of automation. While exploring alternatives, Loftware's Smartflow stood out due to its integration, built-in workflow automation, and master data management capabilities.

Loftware Smartflow significantly transformed Orion’s artwork management by streamlining processes, integrating real-time systems, and automating tasks. The improvements in process transparency, data reliability, and ease of system management have been key to supporting Orion’s business growth and operational efficiency in a complex pharmaceutical environment.

Watch this webinar to learn how Orion has seen significant benefits by using Loftware Smartflow.

How Loftware Smartflow Transformed Orion Corporation’s Artwork Management

As supply chains have become more global and complex, it’s clear there is a growing need for connectedness. This is why today’s global supply chain is embracing digital transformation and finding new ways to create a flexible and agile framework for business. 

In this webinar, we will talk about the focus on greater collaboration and integration with business systems, as trading partners look for an ecosystem that can meet all their needs and provide streamlined access to partners and suppliers. We will also cover the increased emphasis on authentication, traceability, sustainability, automation, and more. 

Watch to explore: 

    Why supply chain collaboration is becoming increasingly critical 
    How companies are exploring new ways to ensure their products and shipments are protected 
    How compliance demands are increasing rapidly as the supply chain increases in complexity 
    Why the demand for transparency is gaining steam 
    How sustainability pressures from stakeholders are bringing significant changes to labeling operations and packaging artwork processes

Supply Chain in 2025: Top 5 Labeling and Packaging Artwork Trends

operations through enhanced traceability, deliver efficiencies within its stores, and strengthen its online offering to deliver market-leading experiences.

This webinar explores how the company leverages Loftware Cloud to enhance accuracy, improve speed to market, enable better track and trace, and reduce costs.

Key topics covered:

    Munro Footwear Group’s corporate vision
    Footwear retail supply chain challenges
    The journey of transformation to cloud labeling
    Munro Footwear Group’s long-term strategy
    Growth opportunities with Loftware: supplier labeling, RFID, and QR codes

Munro Footwear Group Achieves Accuracy and Speed with Cloud Labeling

As business environments become more global and complex, companies need to look at labeling differently to keep pace with evolving technologies and to meet the demands of new multi-faceted, dynamic supply chains. Today we’re faced with increasing customer and regulatory requirements making it crucial to quickly and easily make label changes. And, when it comes to labeling, managing multiple solutions creates inconsistencies and inefficiencies while limiting your flexibility to scale. Join us to discuss some challenges customers have faced when it comes to labeling. You’ll hear about how eliminating manual processes by standardizing with a cloud-based approach can help you save time and costs, while reducing mislabeling and avoiding potential supply chain disruptions.

Enterprise Labeling - Where to Start in Removing the Roadblocks

Labeling out of SAP S/4 HANA in regulated industries is complex. Labeling hazardous goods, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and other controlled products requires unique expertise. When it comes to labeling, these products are undergoing significant changes, with new regulations and platform adaptations. If you’re a supply chain professional in the chemical, life sciences or another regulated industry, you’ll want to hear about how to modernize your labeling in SAP to achieve new efficiencies.

Best Practices for Integrating Labeling in SAP S/4HANA

Today’s businesses are transforming their labeling with 1-step color printing, RFID, and QR codes. Hear from industry leaders like Epson and SATO to discover how their cutting-edge print technology is helping companies meet these challenges as complex and variable data becomes increasingly important in meeting both customer and regulatory demands.

How to Modernize Printing on the Production Line

Watch this casual industry focused conversation covering labeling and packaging artwork topics. Facilitated by a Loftware industry expert, this roundtable discussion explores challenges and ideas in each of the sub vertical spaces listed above.

Industry Roundtable: Medical Device, Pharmaceutical and Clinical Trials

While the advantages of cloud-based labeling vs on prem become clearer, some businesses are still debating the need and urgency to make the switch. The truth is, the longer you wait the more risk your business is embracing as you invest to maintain an on-prem solution and miss out on a highly flexible and scalable cloud solution.

Still feeling unsure?

Watch our recent session where Greg MacKinnon, Head of Global Value Advisory at Loftware, shared perspectives around the strategic advantages and economic value of moving to Loftware Cloud, including:

- Reduced long-term technology expense and risk

- Increase capacity for internal resources to shift time & energy to more value-added and
  innovation-centric activities

- Reduce the ever-present risk of business downtime with an on prem deployment

The Value of Moving to Loftware Cloud

Label print speed and label accuracy are important for every supply chain. Companies need to get products out fast, but if label data is inaccurate, they can face costly fines and recalls.

GSK, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, had over 26 different labeling solutions and 40 manufacturing sites worldwide. With no centralized control of its labeling, this brought challenges that resulted in data siloes, compliance risk, and cumbersome label processes.

Working with Loftware, GSK centralized and automated its labeling processes by integrating labeling with SAP ECC (ERP Central Component) and across its global landscape.

Watch the webinar to learn how GSK drives labeling directly from SAP, across its global manufacturing sites and over 3500 label printers, to ensure accurate labeling across their supply chain.

Learn how GSK:

Leverages SAP as a source of truth and drives label printing dynamically from SAP ECC business transactions
Quickly reacts to changing regulatory and market-driven requirements to meet the rigors of high-volume label printing across its global landscape
Significantly improved labeling consistency across its global SAP landscape
Manages regional and customer label demands across the globe, including support for local languages

How GSK optimized labeling from SAP and across the globe

Sustainability has become something of a buzzword in recent years, and for good reason. The devastating impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly apparent and highlight the urgency of adopting sustainable practices and reducing our environmental footprint.

To manage this shift in prioritization, businesses must embrace technologies that not only make their operations more resilient and adaptive, but also enable them to meet their sustainability goals. By leveraging the power of the Cloud, companies of all sizes can improve both visibility and sustainable practices across their supply chain.

Given the importance of this topic across all sectors, we’ve brought together industry experts from GS1, SAP and Kezzler to share their thoughts as to how organizations can meet their sustainability goals at every stage of the supply chain.


Attend this webinar to learn how your company can improve traceability and sustainability across operations and supply chain.

Expert Roundtable SAP, GS1 & Kezzler: Meeting Sustainability at Every Stage of the Supply Chain

Speed to market continues to be the focal point of businesses and is the driving force behind why they make large investments in their entire business operations but, still neglect some key areas. One of those key areas is the packaging artwork process.

The truth is that while your artwork management process might be thorough, it may also be causing a logjam in your entire business operation.

To consistently bring new products to market ahead of the competition you need a cloud-based, configurable Artwork Management solution that can help you:

- Support the proofing of high-resolution artwork
- Create a centralized location of digital assets
- Support and simplify global translations
- Sustain regulatory compliance
- Deploy faster and foster easy user adoption

Watch this recorded session to learn more about how Loftware Smartflow provides businesses with the flexibility and efficiency they need to optimize their business operations and improve speed-to-market.

The Impact of Streamlined Artwork Management on Speed to Market

As one of the largest employers of chemical engineers worldwide, Lubrizol continuously strives to improve its culture of safety and accountability, driving safety excellence across its global operations through its "Journey to Zero" initiative.

This webinar explores how Lubrizol leverages Loftware's Enterprise Labeling solutions integrated with SAP to enhance their sustainability efforts and operational efficiency.

Key topics covered:

    Lubrizol's "Journey to Zero"
    Ensuring Compliance with GHS and CLP Regulations
    Case Studies and Real-World Examples
    Lubrizol's Long-Term SAP Strategy and Loftware Integration

Learn how your organization can leverage advanced labeling solutions to meet evolving regulatory requirements and drive business success.

Enhancing Sustainability and Efficiency at Lubrizol with SAP Integration

A 12-year Loftware customer, international lighting supplier Zumtobel understands how essential their labeling solution is to the success of their supply chain operations. After struggling with disconnected systems and network instability, Zumtobel modernized their labeling solution and moved to the cloud. 
 
Watch this recorded session where we spoke to Thomas Muller, Head of IT Solutions Manufacturing & Logistics at Zumtobel about the decision to move to Loftware Cloud, and the present and future benefits including: 
 
- Ease of Implementation 
- Accessibility of data and label templates across all Zumtobel location 
- Seamless integration with other systems within their supply chain tech stack

How Zumtobel Leveraged the Cloud for a More Reliable Labeling Process

A critical part of the supply chain is ensuring that raw materials and products are received by suppliers in a timely and efficient manner for seamless delivery to the intended warehouse locations. Organizations are perpetually looking for new and innovative ways to deliver business transformation and optimize their supply chain operations.

Does this sound like your organization?

Watch this on-demand session where our industry experts discuss the challenges faced by organizations when optimizing their supply chain operations, and learn how cloud-based labeling can help you:

- Eliminate relabeling:  which alone has resulted in upwards of $2M - $3M in labor and materials 
- Save millions in warehousing costs:  gain faster time-to-market, and radically reduce inventory and waste 
- Improve manufacturing agility:  promptly adjust supplier orders based on changing needs

Optimize Your Supply Chain Operations Through Supplier Compliance

Food manufacturers know how critical it is to maintain food safety for the health of their customers and their businesses. Even if a contaminant originated beyond the food manufacturer’s walls, it’s damaging to customers’ health, loyalty, the manufacturer’s reputation, and the company’s bottom line.

The FDA designed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) to be a proactive approach to prevent–not just respond–to food-borne illnesses. Since FSMA was passed in 2018, the FDA introduced several new rules to provide a framework for requirements on food traceability. With FSMA 204 on the way, businesses will be required to provide more granular clarity around the tracking of goods throughout the supply chain. Ineffective and overly-manual labeling processes will no longer cut it. In this webinar, prepare for FSMA 204 by learning:

    How FSMA 204 rules are changing and who is affected
    How to become compliant
    What solutions to implement to optimize the labeling process

Getting ready for FSMA 204: How to Optimize Your Labeling Processes

How Applied Medical digitalizes and streamlines supply chain quality control with Loftware SAP integration

Applied Medical is a global medical device company founded in 1987 and headquartered in Southern California. With 5,000+ team members operating in more than 75 countries, Applied Medical develops innovative products that improve patient outcomes and enable the advancement of minimally invasive and general surgery specialties.

By integrating Loftware Spectrum with SAP this organization was able to extend its finished goods labeling across its digital supply chain and automate quality control to reduce errors and improve operational efficiencies.

View this webinar to learn how Applied Medical benefits from Loftware Spectrum/SAP integration:

Integrated labeling processes with business processes
Enabled rapid label template management and approval with end-user label printing visibility and notifications
Automated label variability (i.e., regulatory, quality, customer requirements) with dynamic templates
Improved process efficiencies within packaging and distribution
Effortless compatibility with legacy printer environment
Eliminated replicated and redundant data to optimize performance

How Applied Medical digitalizes and streamlines supply chain quality control

Convergence 2024

Migrating to the Cloud as a business and IT strategy is qualitatively straightforward and carries with it many business benefits, however, evaluating and quantifying the Total Cost of Ownership of an on-premises vs. cloud deployment is not a straightforward task. To address this challenge, Loftware has developed a guided and comprehensive economic comparison simulation tool that clarifies and simplifies the Comparative TCO assessment exercise. Please join us for a demonstration of our evaluation engine and how to collaboratively shape YOUR business case to economically justify “Migrating to the Cloud.”

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