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Lumi ID: a new feature for sustainability transparency

Meet Lumi ID, the fastest and most accurate way to help people understand how your packaging is made, and how to dispose of it responsibly. Read more about this exciting new feature on our blog.

With Lumi ID you can now:

  • Allow your customers to access local end-of-life instructions for your packaging via QR codes
  • Generate and export vector-based QR codes for any item
  • Manage your public Lumi ID profile with your logo, description, website, and control over which details of your packaging you want to share
  • Set up alternate URLs for your QR code
  • Connect Lumi ID to your WMS or ERP for inventory control

Compare quotes with new marketplace features

The latest update to Lumi includes a set of features we're particularly excited about: an all-new way to manage your quoting process and choose the best option for every packaging component you need.

With this release, we’re giving your team the tools to better understand costs, compare across manufacturers, and respond directly in the Lumi interface. You can read more about this release on our blog.

  • Compare quotes across manufacturers
  • See all the quotes you received across products in a single view
  • Filter and sort by quote, product group, lead time and status
  • See the detailed cost break down for every quote
  • View landed unit prices, savings, and first-order versus reorder costs
  • Respond to quotes through the platform and give feedback to manufacturers

We've created some resources so you can learn more about how costs are broken up, how to use filters, and accepting and rejecting quotes.

Multi-split orders

Lumi has a brand new way of ordering! The new process is designed to provide more flexibility around item and shipping details as well as increase visibility into costs and lead times. Read more on our blog.

What's new:

  • Save orders as drafts and collaborate on them with your team
  • Clone orders
  • Split shipments by date and location
  • Better lead time projections
  • Tooling is automatically added to orders
  • Detailed payment schedule

To help your team get up to speed on the new workflow, we've also published an in-depth guide on how to create orders.

Analytics

Analytics are now available in Lumi! Analytics provides more quantifiable, measurable insights about your packaging supply chain. You can read more about this release on our blog.

We're starting with three report types:

  • Orders by product category. Data can be aggregated by spending (dollar amount), by volume (quantity of units), or by order count
  • Invoices by spending category. This includes items, shipping, tooling, overs and unders, etc.
  • Shipments by location

Features:

  • Aggregate your data by month, quarter or year
  • Customize the date range
  • Drill down on a category by toggling it on or off

Standardized quality control

Today we’re announcing the Standardized Quality release — a set of features that raises the bar for quality standards across every factory in the Lumi Network. This release gives you the tools to identify and report quality issues.

Your reports contribute directly to our quality monitoring systems, which helps improve manufacturer selection tools and overall reliability for all members of the Lumi platform! We're really excited about it and have written more in depth on the blog.

What's new:

Plus, our guide on how to run a quality inspection using the Acceptable Quality Limit (AQL) procedure

Production tracking

A big new feature went live: production tracking! Read more about this update on our blog.

Production tracking gives you a single place to view activity related to any item you produce in any of the 20,000+ factories available through Lumi. Production statuses are available for any item ordered after April 1, 2019.

Here's the new data you can see in your Production view: 

  • Production status
  • Units produced
  • Units shipped
  • Delivery window
Production tracking may 2019

Proof Management

The proof approval workflow can now be managed entirely in your Lumi Dashboard. Here are some of the new features we launched today:

  • Monitor proof statuses
  • Approve or reject proofs
  • Track who approved proofs and when
  • View rejected proofs
  • Improvements to the proof page

Publications

We're also excited to launch Publications! Multi-page printing and binding capabilities help you create magazines, catalogs, booklets, and newspapers to bring your content offline.

We've found a lot of inspiration from Lumi users designing publications to provide product information, share new products, or just engage folks in their community.

Options span the gamut from full color digital printing, or with lithography for more accurate Pantone color-matching. From newsprint to glossy cover stock, the paper options are nearly endless.

We're crossing off a big feature request today! You can now invite your team to Lumi and collaborate together in the Dashboard. Learn more on the blog.

  • New Users section in Settings.
  • Send, revoke and resend invitations.
  • List of users with pending invitations, active users and deactivated users.
  • Edit and deactivate users.
  • Track the last login date of users.
  • For enhanced security, email verification is now required for all users.

New Updates page. You're looking at it, friend! This is where our log of changes big and small can be found. Includes new features, products, bug fixes and improvements.

A few big changes are coming to the Product Catalog and Dashboard. Learn more on the blog.

  • Discontinuing Rubber Stamps, Embossers and low-volume unprinted packaging.
  • Introduced Plans, with new services and products available for the Growth and Enterprise Plans.