Take a step back and look at the big picture. What is your revenue per employee? If growing sales always means having to add employees then any dream of increasing your profitability will likely remain just that, a dream.
That endless cycle of increasing your costs to increase your sales is always going to stand in your way of increasing your revenue per employee.
Our customers have told us that their ability to increase their revenue per employee is the #1 benefit of Print MIS automation, and delivers the highest ROI above all other factors.
Those revenue per employee gains, however, are coming from different places with different companies.
For Bob Rottner, the CFO of Sull Graphics, the ROI was all about time savings. His “one-stop-shop” near Atlanta Georgia offers a wide variety of services that include digital and offset printing, finishing, and digital services including e-mail marketing and pURL programs.
For Rottner, the time savings after implementing Avanti Slingshot Print MIS were felt across the board. Each of his Customer Service Reps were able to cut 15 hours out of their week by having access to all their customer’s jobs and information at their fingertips, instead of having to chase it all down. By having all of the information that comes in with an order automatically appear in each invoice, as opposed to needing someone to re-input all the data, Rottner was able to drop his team’s time spent invoicing from 13 hours/week down to just one hour.
This efficiency alone translated into an annual savings of $24,440.
Importantly, he himself saved 15 hours/week of his own time since implementing a Print MIS.
Of course, that’s just a glimpse into what automation can do, but it’s a great example of how a Print MIS takes repetitive tasks out of every part of your operation. That time given back to your employees means you can grow your business without increasing headcount. Finally, sales can grow at a much faster rate than costs, and you can deliver more jobs.
For COO Armando Pena of Printing and Marketing Group, Inc. (PMI) in Union City, California the biggest time savings came from their Order Entry and Shipping department. PMI offers creative services, printing and finishing, mailing services, and an online storefront.
After implementing Avanti Slingshot Print MIS, they were able to save hours every single day by automating job tracking and eliminating manual tasks. PMI was then able to use those freed-up hours to further develop its online storefront and drive new business growth – all with their existing team. The ability to grow sales without increasing headcount meant higher profits.
Entering orders manually or writing job tickets by hand takes an average of 10 minutes each.
That cost adds up.
For example, 50 orders a day = 500 minutes or 8.333 hours. Over the course of a year, that’s equivalent to 1 full-time CRS’s salary!
