5 Reasons Your Business Needs Managed Print Services

5 Reasons Your Business Needs Managed Print Services

HINT: Saving Money May Not Be the Most Important One Now, do me a favor: DON’T cheat and sneak a look at the bottom of the article. (Or at least if you do, come back up here and see what you missed.)  You know I am a huge proponent of managed print services....
How Do You Define Success?     

How Do You Define Success?     

Research Suggests Measuring Success in Minutes, Not Money I’m going to go out on a limb here. I would guess that if you asked most people what it would take to make them feel successful, not very many of them would answer ‘print supply chain management.” But based on...
12 Benefits of e-Procurement for Operations and Logistics

12 Benefits of e-Procurement for Operations and Logistics

Take Out the Chaos, Take Out the Cost. In Tuesday’s post, I discussed how e-procurement technology could add accuracy and efficiency in getting custom labels. That reminded me it was probably time to remind you once again what e-procurement can do for many aspects of...
Preventing Problems with Your Custom Labels

Preventing Problems with Your Custom Labels

Keep Production of Your Custom Labels Flowing and Your Business Growing For many businesses, “the busy season” is approaching, or it’s already here. That’s especially true if your company depends on holiday orders for survival. Chances are your production is...
Promotional Kitting Made Easy

Promotional Kitting Made Easy

How to Avoid Time, Space, and Cost Hassles Let’s continue our discussion of promotional kitting. In my last post, I started out by talking about what promotional kitting means. At the end, I promised today I would share a few tips on how to make promotional kitting...
3 Key Benefits of Kitting and Fulfillment

3 Key Benefits of Kitting and Fulfillment

What You Pick and How You Pack Both Matter You send things to customers. You probably also send things to prospects, hoping to turn them into customers. And as I’m sure you have discovered, you can blow through lots of employee time gathering up, packaging and...
What is Kitting and Fulfillment?

What is Kitting and Fulfillment?

Are Your Mailings Packed with Efficiency? Stop me if you’ve heard this one. “A brochure, a letter, a product sample and a premium item go into a box…” Okay, you caught me. That’s not really a joke. But it is a kit. A pretty typical one, actually. And it’s my way of...
How to Ensure Your Custom Labels Stick

How to Ensure Your Custom Labels Stick

Preventing Problems with Your Custom Labels Labels on consumer and business-to-business products carry your brand identity to market. What you put on the outside of that jar, can, box or bag matters. It is the only thing that differentiates you from your competition...
How to Create an Online Company Store for Promotional Items

How to Create an Online Company Store for Promotional Items

Imagine having a carefully selected group of promotional items ready for simple ordering and reliable fulfillment. That’s what an online company store can do. And big benefits such as quality and consistency, the removal of stress and wasted time while maximizing the benefits of custom company promotional items.

How to Address Overproduction Waste Identified by LEAN Manufacturing

How to Address Overproduction Waste Identified by LEAN Manufacturing

Waste #7: Overproduction—Part 8 of 8: Addressing the Seven Wastes in LEAN Manufacturing with Corporate Kiosk Today, let’s take on the final “waste” in our series about the seven areas of waste identified in LEAN manufacturing. For a couple weeks now, we’ve been...
How to Address Inventory Wastes Identified by LEAN Manufacturing

How to Address Inventory Wastes Identified by LEAN Manufacturing

Waste #6: Inventory—Part 7 of 8: Addressing the Seven Wastes in LEAN Manufacturing with Corporate Kiosk This week, we’ll be wrapping up our series on the seven areas of waste identified in LEAN manufacturing. It’s a topic we’ve been revisiting since it generated...
How to Address Wastes from Poor Quality Through LEAN Manufacturing

How to Address Wastes from Poor Quality Through LEAN Manufacturing

Waste #5: Poor Quality—Part 6 of 8: Addressing the Seven Wastes in LEAN Manufacturing with Corporate Kiosk Next up on our waste “hit list”: quality problems. If you’ve been following along, you know we’ve been revisiting seven wastes identified in LEAN...
How to Address “Motion” Wastes Through LEAN Manufacturing

How to Address “Motion” Wastes Through LEAN Manufacturing

Waste #3: Processing—Part 5 of 8: Addressing the Seven Wastes in LEAN Manufacturing with Corporate Kiosk The seven wastes identified in LEAN manufacturing were the subject of an extremely popular post when first published. Therefore, we’ve been revisiting the topic...
How to Address Transportation Wastes Identified by LEAN Manufacturing

How to Address Transportation Wastes Identified by LEAN Manufacturing

Waste #2: Transportation—Part 3 of 8: Addressing the Seven Wastes in LEAN Manufacturing with Corporate Kiosk It’s time to continue our series based on the seven wastes identified in LEAN manufacturing. It was one of our most popular posts ever, and certainly...
Addressing the 7 Wastes in LEAN Manufacturing with Corporate Kiosk

Addressing the 7 Wastes in LEAN Manufacturing with Corporate Kiosk

LEAN Thinking is Profitable Thinking: Part 1 of 8 If yours is like many businesses, you’ve begun the new year with big plans to cut waste in your operation. Along with increasing sales, it’s the only way to craft a larger bottom line. And that’s perfectly...
Print Management? Here’s How to Take Control

Print Management? Here’s How to Take Control

A Smarter, Less Stressful Approach to Printing Needs Control freak? If you manage a small or mid-sized business or play a key role in a larger one, you may feel you have to be these days. For many of us, the ever-faster pace of business today gives us the feeling that...

Are You Making this Costly Mistake with Your Printing?

Is Your Print Supply Chain Managing YOU? “We figure out how to print things when we need to.” Not an uncommon attitude, and at face value it seems to make sense. But when I hear it from business owners or managers, it means they are probably spending a lot more time...
Could Ecobranding Save Money On Printing Services?

Could Ecobranding Save Money On Printing Services?

Will Eco branding Save Money on Printing Services? I’ve been writing about print supply chain management in recent weeks. And that’s not by accident. I think it’s one area in which we can do the most good for our clients. Our company was founded on new ways to save...