Business Management - In-plant Justification

Print business transformation and marketing expert John Foley, Jr. shares 7 easy steps on how and what to market for long-term success!

If there was one thing that distinguished last month’s In-plant Printing and Mailing Association conference from all past IPMA events it was this: the app.

Ricoh’s Debbie Pavletich, a former in-plant manager, says it’s important for in-plants to stay relevant.

When a handful of college and university in-plants got together at the University of Virginia back i

A Web to print solution for one school district that saved thousands, could work for your in-plant. We’ll share steps they took.

We’ve all heard scary stories about in-plants that were outsourced in a vain attempt to cut costs; we don’t often hear about companies that open new in-plants for the same reason. So it’s striking that in just the past month I’ve met two managers whose organizations have done exactly that, and another whose college tossed out a facilities management (FM) firm and took over in-house printing. 

In June of 2014, 16 employees of Print, Mail, Copy (PMC) Solutions at the University of Arkansas were called into a conference room. Each one received a letter explaining that in two years, offset printing, which had been losing money, would be phased out of the in-plant and they would not be part of the plan moving forward.

The next time someone in your company starts braying about the benefits outsourcing can bring, rattle off the results of this research paper.

Our speakers explain how benchmarking your operation against industry leaders can strengthen an in-plant and help secure its future.

Sure, in-plants know it's a good idea to benchmark their performance against other printers. But contacting and surveying those other printers is a lot of work. What if there was an online tool that would let managers plug in information and quickly see how they compare?