$ Paying
higher postage for jobs which run late
$
Paying
unscheduled overtime to complete jobs in order to meet contract deadlines
$
Stopping
production to find missing pieces and reconcile jobs/pieces on the plant floor
$
Operators
utilizing production time to enter production data and manually close out jobs (rather
than running production)
$
Manually
entering production data in to spreadsheets and reporting programs
$
Paying
late delivery fees and compliance penalties
$
Introducing
duplicate pieces and extra postage into the production cycle
$
Manual
re-print processes which require excessive labor and production resources
$
Waste
and spoilage within printing, finishing and inserting processes
An effective
piece and job tracking strategy can measurably eliminate these expenses while
providing management with REAL TIME,
desktop transparency to:
Ø Status of jobs versus production
schedules and SLA’s
Ø Immediate notification of integrity
issues such as missing & duplicate pieces
Ø Elimination of manual process
transitions, operator logging/reporting and manual data entry to record
production information
Ø Enable jobs to be completed on-time
without excessive postage costs and overtime charges
Ø Production performance dashboard
including productivity benchmarking
Ø Automated reprint process
Ø Compliance audit trails
Today’s job
and piece tracking systems provide a strategy to measurably optimize
profitability and integrity performance, regardless of the equipment types and
information management architecture in a production facility.