Foundational Elements of Flexographic Printing on Rotary Die Cutters (Clemson University)

 

Course Overview:

The training class was developed by Clemson University’s Graphic Communications Department to give corrugated industry operators and supervisors a comprehensive, hands-on approach to quality printing and die cutting fundamentals.  Classes promote working together as a team to further the learning process.  The high ratio of on-press time ensures all attendees are learning by doing. 

 

Who Should Attend:

Press operators and supervisors working in or associated with the combined corrugated industry.

 

New For 2008

• Selling Digital Print
• Digital Production for Containers and Displays
• Business Action Executives Conference

School for Financial Managers and Controllers

 

The School for Financial Managers & Controllers provides the independent box plant financial manager with strategies and skills to address the financial challenges of maintaining profitability, sustaining growth, and managing costs in a competitive environment.

Benefit:

• Learn how to better manage your company's costs by:
• Fitting financial management into an overall corporate growth strategy,
• Monitoring, measuring and controlling activities that drive costs,
• Preparing and sharing certain key financial data with managers in other departments.

As in the past, the primary benefit of participation is the interaction among your peers, the application of what you learn in case studies, the flexibility of the facilitators, and the excellent and thorough instruction of the M.S. Ackerman team.

 

Agenda
Course begins at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday and ends at 4:00 p.m. on Friday.

Roundtable Discussions
Incentive compensation at all levels - Employee fringe benefits - Sales compensation.

 

A Review of the Basics
Corrugated box financial reporting from the "bottom up": internal and external reporting concepts, key terms and definitions, credit and collection issues, inventory valuation and management, and benchmarking relationships and ratios.

 

Updating Your Estimating System
Basic cost accounting, fixed versus variable costs, contribution margin, basic estimating philosophies