Buy PPE for Coronavirus Your Business Needs to Safely Get Back to Work

Buy PPE for Coronavirus Your Business Needs to Safely Get Back to Work

This PPE or Personal Protective Equipment for Coronavirus Will Help Get Your Employees Safely Back to Work It’s the topic of the day in the news, and that’s not going to change any time soon. If you run an essential business, you probably need it now and may be...
Why the K.I.S.S. Method Applies to Your Industry’s Print Needs 

Why the K.I.S.S. Method Applies to Your Industry’s Print Needs 

Kiss Time and Money-wasting Practices GOODBYE Whatever industry you are part of, I’ll bet two things are true. First, business isn’t getting any easier. New challenges seem to arrive daily, through competition, regulation, technology and a dozen other things....
2 Easy Ways to Increase Productivity with Print  

2 Easy Ways to Increase Productivity with Print  

It’s the Time Want to grow your business or organization? Here’s a tip: spend more time on it. But before you roll your eyes, notice I didn’t say anything about working harder or longer hours. I simply mean spending more time on your actual business by tapping...
Top 10 Blogs for Print Procurement Pros

Top 10 Blogs for Print Procurement Pros

If Procuring Print Is Your Business, These Blogs Are Your Library. Funny thing about clichés: often, they’re true! You’ve probably heard that today, “knowledge is power” and “information is currency.”  Well, it is. And it is. And if you deal in print procurement (from...
3 BIG Benefits of Operational e-Procurement

3 BIG Benefits of Operational e-Procurement

Not Using e-Procurement? Time for You to A.C.T. I’ve talked before in this space about the many advantages of e-Procurement. I could suggest dozens of them. But I think most fall into three big areas where you will easily feel the positive impact: accuracy, costs, and...
Looking for Managed Print Service Providers Near You? STOP 

Looking for Managed Print Service Providers Near You? STOP 

Find One That Matches Your Needs, Not Your Zip Code I’m happy to report that the message is getting out. Companies that stress the importance of efficiency are starting to “get it.” They realize they need to apply the same diligence to dealing with their...
6 Print Management Tips Your Organization is Missing – Part Two

6 Print Management Tips Your Organization is Missing – Part Two

Print Works Better with a Partner and a Plan This week, I am sharing six tips that could help your organization get print and promotional products more efficiently and economically. Through the smart use of print management you not only save time and money, but...
Need Help with RFID? Get It Here

Need Help with RFID? Get It Here

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Tracks Well with Your Business Plan I know I have a very diverse group of readers. Many of you are well aware of RFID and its benefits. Others may think it’s about delivering mail in farm country. But good news: I’m here to...
How Healthy Is Your Print Supply Chain?

How Healthy Is Your Print Supply Chain?

Time to Take Stock—and Action in Print At the end of the year, we reflect on the past; and “looking back” sounds like some sentimental journey. But it’s a logical time to take a breath and assess, with a year’s worth of perspective, how certain parts of your operation...
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...
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...

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...
Top 10 Blogs for Supply Chain Leaders

Top 10 Blogs for Supply Chain Leaders

10 Blogs That Offer Valuable Supply Chain Management Advice It’s no secret that a well-designed and managed supply chain can make the difference between profitable growth and stressful uncertainty. If you’re a regular reader, you know that I frequently talk...
Print-On-Demand Solution Saves State Agency Nearly $1 Million

Print-On-Demand Solution Saves State Agency Nearly $1 Million

Print-on-Demand Turns Creativity into Productivity If you are a regular reader, you know I am a big believer in the efficiency of our variable print-on-demand technologies. The benefits are just so obvious. First, it gives you the ability to update and/or customize...