In-plants Make a Strong Showing at Graph Expo
“If you proactively benchmark your performance, then if you’re ever called in, and an administrator says, ‘We want you to write an RFP to outsource all that you do,’ you’ll have ammunition to say ‘You know what, this is our core competency,” Fenton said.
The power of benchmarking, he said, is that having this data can stop the outsourcing conversation dead in its tracks. Fenton discussed some of the key performance indicators in-plants should measure, such as sales per employee.
- Companies:
- Rochester Software Associates
- Xerox Corp.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.