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Printing Industry Best Practices:
"Lean Printing Office" Improves Your Administrative Profitability

One of the most useful and powerful improvement methodologies in the business world today is the Toyota Production System (TPS). TPS is a major part of "Lean Manufacturing". Lean manufacturing is the production of goods using less of everything: less human effort, less waste, less costs, and less production time to manufacture products.

Lean manufacturing is becoming extremely popular in the printing industry as companies continue to find new ways to reduce costs, improve efficiencies, and become more competitive. As the name suggests, lean manufacturing focuses primarily on the manufacturing or production aspects of printing. The PIA/GATF is now offering workshops on Lean Manufacturing designed especially for printers.

Lean Office has similar principles as Lean Manufacturing but focuses on the administrative environment rather then the production environment. Lean Office can be applied in a printing organization’s administrative environment to improve workflow, improve office productivity, reduce overhead costs, and enhance the ability to meet customer demands.

Profectus' “Lean Printing Office” consulting solution integrates lean office principles with industry best practices to help printing organizations implement administrative improvements and maximize employee performance in the areas of estimating, order entry, purchasing, invoicing, and other office areas. It eliminates the seven types of waste that are costly to an organization.

Companies implementing Lean Office principles have experience cost benefits well over $100,000 from the following benefits:
  • Streamline office workflow and processes
  • Greater productivity with less effort. Get more done with less people
  • Allocate resources to satisfy your customer
  • Eliminate non-value added activities so your administrative personnel can focus on tasks that bring the most value to the customer and company
  • Enhance the organization and communications of job information
  • Reduce administrative cost to the organization by as much as 50%
  • Reduce the time it takes to get orders into production by as much as 75%
  • Reduce errors on job tickets by as much as 90%
  • Improve quality of product
  • Improve on time deliveries by as much as 75%
  • Make the organization more competitive
  • Increase and retain sales
  • Encourage teamwork and employee involvement
  • Better employee morale

To learn more about Profectus' “Lean Printing Office” consulting solution visit our website at http://www.profectus.com/services/lean-printing-office.htm


By Craig L. Press
President, Profectus, Inc.
craig.press@profectus.com
Phone: 888-868-8662 or 941-379-8700

Craig L. Press is president of Profectus, Inc, a national consultancy that helps printing organizations implement best business practices and maximize the value of their information technology investments. www.profectus.com