In-plants Face New Strategic Realities
As corporate comptrollers sharpen their scrutiny, in-plants turn to insourcing, marketing and ancillary services. Still, many hardships remain for in-plants. Here’s a candid look.
For decades the strategic plan for in-plants was to get and enforce the corporate policy of “right of first refusal” on anything to be printed. Increasingly, institutions are either not making this policy or, if it has been tradition, it is not being enforced. This is because clients feel they can get faster service or better “value” down the street, or because the accounting records are difficult to chase down until months after the buy.
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