Follow every notebook, ball pen and file from paper reel and ink lot to dealer carton.

Stationery runs on volume and variety. One notebook may come in six covers, three page counts and two rulings, while a ball pen has four barrel colours and three tip sizes. Stock lines multiply fast. The dealer wants every one before the school term opens, and each missing variant is an empty shelf.

Production software for stationery makers ties paper reels, sheet cutting, ruling, cover printing, stitching or binding and carton packing into one record. Share your requirements to start.

The planner starts from dealer orders and school forecasts. Notebook lines draw paper reels, which are cut to sheet size, ruled on the ruling machine, folded, gathered and stitched or glued under a printed cover. Wastage is measured in reams and in sheets per reel, and it differs between a thin ruled book and a thick drawing pad. Pen lines take barrels, caps, refills, ink and clips from the store, and assembly benches turn them into counted packs of ten or twenty. Covers are printed in batches by artwork code, and each change of plate means a changeover.

The floor records reels loaded, sheets cut, books bound, pens assembled and ink filled. Quality staff check ruling alignment, cover registration, ink flow and tip wear on samples drawn at the start, middle and end of a run. Failures are rare but costly. Finished goods go into inner boxes, then master cartons with the count printed. Dealers order by item code and pack size, and a school set may bundle five items. One cover colour in short supply holds the whole order.