Established in 1947, Bagcraft – a division of Packaging Dynamics (PKDY) – has been a leading force in the field of foodservice packaging and carryout wrapping. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, PKDY maintains four operating companies, including manufacturing and paper mill facilities, in locations like Baxter Springs, KS, and Detroit, MI, to name a few. To run the operation, PKDY utilizes PRMS 8.4 on the System i (iSeries 400 or AS/400) with over 500 users.
According to Tina Colon, PKDY’s Manager of Systems and Programming, up until two years ago the company’s document handling procedures didn’t quite keep pace with its leading reputation.
“I would say we were still in the 1970s,” she remembers. “We had a typewriter that produced our checks. We did have another piece of equipment that put the signature on the check, but it wasn’t automated.” According to Colon, document delivery using manual fax machines wasn’t going much better. “The way we were doing it wasn’t working. Half the time customers were saying they weren’t getting their faxes. A fax machine doesn’t tell us when a customer doesn’t get a fax.” …
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[This article was written for Quadrant Software between 2001 and 2005]
division of Packaging Dynamics (PKDY)
- has been a leading force in the fi eld
of foodservice packaging and carryout
wrapping. Headquartered in Chicago, IL,
PKDY maintains four operating companies,
including manufacturing and paper mill
facilities, in locations like Baxter Springs,
KS, and Detroit, MI, to name a few. To run
the operation, PKDY utilizes PRMS 8.4 on
the System i (iSeries 400 or AS/400) with
over 500 users.
According to Tina Colon, PKDY’s
Manager of Systems and Programming, up
until two years ago the company’s document
handling procedures didn’t quite keep pace
with its leading reputation.