Monday, June 3, 2013

Strategy for Improved Profitability within Print & Mail Operations

Within print and mail operations, it is common to see excessive overhead and production delays squeeze profitability from document processors.  Common areas of lost profitability include:  
$       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.
By Pat Hoskins, pat.hoskins@ironsidestech.com, PH 585.953.3013

3 comments:

  1. We are always looking to improve our mailing expenses and operations. We recently implemented new procedures such as the use of postage meters to help with task hours and costs and piece tracking systems seem like something that would be benefit to implement as well.

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