Paper Inventory Management: A Lean Approach
After years of inefficient visual monitoring of paper supplies, this in-plant developed a Lean approach to inventory management.
Very Busy Operation
Our in-plant provides printing services to six hospitals plus four external health care establishments. It produces more than 20 million impressions per year, with jobs ranging from forms to wide-format. Two Xerox Nuvera printers operated by one technician share the bulk of that volume; the two offset press operators run a Multilith 2650 as well as a Ryobi 3302. Digital color is handled by one employee operating a Xerox DocuColor 252 and a 700.
Carmin Cristofaro is consultant in process improvement. He was previously in charge of the in-plant at McGill University Health Center in Montreal.
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