Business Management - In-plant Justification

When facilities management companies stop in to chat with your senior management, the words most likely to drop from their mouths at least a dozen times are "cost savings." They know these VPs and administrators will lean forward eagerly each time, excited to be the hero that saves their organization big bucks.

At the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association conference in Louisville, Ky., an informative panel discussion on leveraging best practices to increase value featured three leading in-plant managers and a consultant. The panel discussed a range of topics, from providing value and outsourcing, to growth, change, and technology.

A new video created by the Omaha school district gives a behind-the-scenes look at the Printing & Publications Services operation busily producing these books, which range from 18-24 pages.

Every year that I moderate an ideal panel session at the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association conference I get some great ideas from the panelists. This year, the session was called "Winning In-plant Ideas” and featured three healthcare in-plant leaders.

During the IPMA 2019 conference, a panel of three healthcare in-plant managers shared ideas and experiences that have made them front runners with winning operations.

Ellen Abbey has some strong advice for any organization thinking about closing its in-plant and hiring a print outsourcing firm: “Don’t do it!” She should know. She spent five years trying to make it work before kicking that company out and bringing back the in-plant.

The in-plant for C&S Wholesale Grocers is always looking for new and more creative ways to help further the company’s mission.

Outsourcing companies will stop at nothing to convince your in-plant's upper management they can cut costs. A sneak attack like this happened at the University of Cincinnati a few years ago — but the outsourcing company overlooked one crucial thing.

More than 30 in-plant managers attended an in-plant road show March 28 on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, organized by the In-plant Printing & Mailing Association.

Value-added services are a great first step, but Consultant Howie Fenton believes that by integrating their services, in-plants can increase their efficiency and align themselves more closely with their organization's mission.