The market and technologically-driven changes in print and packaging have placed new demands on print and publishing service providers: cost and turn-time pressures, new vertical integration requirements, and the addition of new services, all of which affect the product mix companies must deliver to grow and remain profitable. To help cope with these new demands—as well as older, preexisting demands, an MIS system has become vital for not only automating business and production processes, but also as a way to identify and reduce costs and cycle time. But as print and packaging service providers evolve and expand their offerings, are print MIS solutions ready to handle the challenge?

One certainly is. In a new white paper, WhatTheyThink contributor David Zwang takes a deep dive into PrintVis, an MIS/ERP solution developed on MS Dynamics 365 Business Central, the cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for small to midsize businesses. It integrates financial management, sales, service, operations, supply chain, project management, and more into one system. The MS Copilot AI agent and assistant also brings new enhancements to PrintVis as well as many benefits to the overall platform.