With NiceLabel software, you can optimize your company’s workflow for label printing, thanks to the system’s numerous features and integration possibilities.
Together, these aspects make NiceLabel an attractive choice for any manufacturing company looking for a fully automated label management setup.
In this article, we explore 7 benefits of NiceLabel that are important to be aware of when choosing label printing software.
- Full integration with your business systems (ERP and MES)
- Reliable technical support
- Comprehensive cloud solution
- User-friendly and intuitive designer
- Robust, reliable, and scalable solution
- Quick implementation
- Centralized control center
1. NiceLabel software provides full integration with your business systems
An advantage of NiceLabel is its seamless integration with all your business-critical IT systems, including ERP, MES, and PLC systems.
The integration capabilities allow you to leverage existing data from your ERP system to automate your printing tasks, eliminating the need for manual entries by your operators. This removes the risk of typos and subsequent product recalls due to labeling errors – such as incorrect SSCC numbers, barcodes, or date markings.
Essentially, we integrate the printing system with the order system, ensuring that the data on the order is the data we use when printing. The integration between NiceLabel and your business systems is facilitated through integration software, easily tailored to each system.
And if you use SAP or Oracle, NiceLabel has made it even simpler by developing a ready-to-use integration package that you can utilize to integrate the two systems.
2. Robust Technical Support
NiceLabel offers various support options.
A common feature among these support options is their effective functionality, ensuring prompt response times.
Our experience also indicates that NiceLabel can almost always find a solution to your challenge or provide a workaround, enabling you to quickly resume operations. This approach helps you avoid downtime and missed deadlines.
Support Ticket
With NiceLabel’s support ticket system, you can easily create a case for technical assistance in the event of error messages or other product-related issues.
Helpdesk
Nicelabel’s Helpdesk provides comprehensive guides for system installation and usage. You’ll also find an extensive collection of how-to guides and articles addressing common questions about databases, compatibility, migration, licenses, and more.
Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA)
By opting for a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA), you secure an extended support agreement with NiceLabel, along with access to free updates for your NiceLabel products. With an SMA, you receive:
- Telephone support access
- Prioritized support ticket handling
- Access to forums, training videos, webinars, and the NiceLabel knowledge base
3. Comprehensive Cloud Solution
NiceLabel offers both an on-premise and a cloud version of their software, with the cloud option being particularly advantageous for many users.
But which one should you choose? Here are some benefits of opting for a cloud solution:
- Automatic Updates: When a new update is released, it is deployed in the cloud first – completely automatically – before becoming available to on-premise customers.
- Maintenance-Free: With an on-premise solution, you are responsible for updates, server maintenance, and general IT security. This burden is lifted with a cloud solution.
- Backup: Regular backups are taken to ensure you don’t lose your data in case of any mishaps.
- High Uptime: NiceLabel promises a 99.9% uptime, and we haven’t experienced any downtime with their cloud solution in the past 5 years.
- Reliability: The cloud is built on Microsoft Azure technology, making integrations easy, including through their API.
Cloud vs. On-Premise – Who is it For?
Many large manufacturing companies prefer to separate their administrative network from the production network due to IT security concerns. This is not possible with the cloud solution, and enterprise-level companies typically opt for an on-premise solution. In principle, the IT security in the cloud solution is just as robust.
With this in mind, NiceLabel Cloud is typically suitable for small to medium-sized manufacturing companies, while the on-premise solution is designed for larger enterprises.
4. User-Friendly and Intuitive Designer
In our experience, NiceLabel boasts one of the most user-friendly and intuitive designers, closely resembling the familiar interface of Word. This aspect is crucial as it saves time during the label design process, facilitating a swift transition from concept to finished labels.
The intuitive designer also reduces the need for extensive resources dedicated to system training. For those accustomed to using Word, most individuals will quickly adapt to the system.
Beyond the designer’s user-friendliness, the integration builder – and overall software administration palette – is also straightforward and easy to navigate.
5. Robust, Reliable, and Scalable Solution
As a manufacturing company, you need a label management system that can grow alongside your production and operate continuously. NiceLabel fulfills these requirements.
Scalable
You can start with a small-scale solution, and there are almost limitless possibilities to scale it as production expands or printer needs change. You can add extra printers and upgrade versions with additional features related to quality assurance and integration capabilities.
Robust
NiceLabel software is built on the Azure platform, offering features such as load balancing, allowing the integration to be distributed across multiple servers. This also enables the creation of a server farm, distributing the workload across several servers if you need to print to many printers simultaneously, ensuring the system operates at full capacity—always.
Reliable
NiceLabel software provides a highly reliable solution that you can trust. NiceLabel even guarantees a 99.9% uptime for their cloud solution.
While the on-premise solution requires more maintenance, our experience suggests that once the system is correctly set up and maintained according to regulations, it runs incredibly efficiently.
6. Quick Implementation
NiceLabel is quick to integrate, and a standard solution can be integrated within a few hours.
But why is quick implementation an advantage?
In integra2r, we’ve observed that printer integration is often overlooked in the project phase and suddenly becomes a task that is discovered late in the project. Therefore, fast implementation is crucial.
For example, we assisted a customer in setting up a NiceLabel solution to meet a tight deadline before Christmas, where printer integration had been “forgotten.” We managed to complete this task in just one day of work, ensuring that the goods were dispatched before the deadline.
The conclusion is that you can quickly get started with your NiceLabel solution. Ultimately, the speed of implementation depends on the complexity of your solution.
7. Central Control Center
A central control center significantly simplifies the administration of your printers, print tasks, and printer servers, eliminating the need for manual adjustments for each printer.
The control center offers the following capabilities:
- User Access Control: You can assign access and keep track of who has access to individual print processes.
- Quality Assurance: In NiceLabel’s LMS (Label Management System), you can control and automate the entire review and approval process, which is particularly relevant in the Pharma industry.
- Change Comparison: You have the ability to compare changes on labels, thereby reducing the risk of errors.
- Test Feature: You can modify/evaluate your labels in a test environment before deploying them live in the production environment.
- Log with Historical Data: Access a historical overview of all labels you’ve printed, errors, and events, ensuring proper documentation.
- Remote Control of Your Printers: Install, update, and manage all your printers via NiceLabel’s web-based printer management.
- Labeling Process Analysis: Access NiceLabel Analytics, where you can monitor and analyze your print tasks in real time.
The control center ensures centralized and standardized access to your labeling process, ultimately leading to more efficient production.
Do you have questions about NiceLabel?
We hope you’ve gained insights into how NiceLabel software can positively impact your manufacturing company. If you have questions, feel free to reach out to Morten Just Jensen at mjj@integra2r.com or (+45) 7370 8078.