Some days, we spend so much time “in the business,” that we don’t spend enough “on the business.”
Think about it...if you are “capping” the number of jobs per hour per day that your equipment can manage, then you are going to “cap” your revenue upside potential. By scheduling jobs more efficiently, you are reducing downtime and changeover make-readies, giving you more saleable time with less waste.
Scheduling and production efficiency goes directly to your bottom line allowing you to take on more jobs, and more sales, per hour, per day.
Dallas-based direct marketing solutions company, Varispark, needed a streamlined solution to help get jobs through the workflow as soon as possible, with as few touches as possible, and still stay profitable.
With jobs coming into the shop from both email and their web-to-print portal, they were also struggling to produce timely estimates. “We needed visibility into just about everything. Where is the project? Are we making any money?”
For Varispark, the ROI came in large part from integrating their Print MIS to their web-to-print storefront solutions, which include MarcomCentral and XMPie uStore, as well as with FedEx and UPS for shipping.
“Having a Print MIS with an open API positions us for future growth as we move in the direction of ecommerce and provides the scalability that we need to meet the ever-increasing demands of our customers.”
Allowing your business and production workflows to talk to each other without manual re-entry of information is fundamental to driving profitability. This includes all workflows - from creating a quote or job ticket, to producing and printing a shipping label or an invoice.
