Lean Printing Office ©
Consulting & Implementation Services

Eliminate non-value added activities

consulting solution helps printing organizations eliminate administrative wastes, reduce overhead costs, increase efficiencies, improve workflow, and enhance the ability to meet customer demands.

Our expert consultants accomplish this by employing numerous lean principles including 6S, Kaizen Events or Blitzes, Value Stream and Process Mapping, Industry Best Practices, Performance Metrics, Information Technology, and Continuous Improvements.

Lean Printing Office focuses on the areas of sales, estimating, customer services, order entry, purchasing, invoicing, and other administrative areas. Our consultants perform detail analysis and reengineer the administrative processes in the Order-To-Cash Cycle including:
 
  Request for Quote process
  Orders to Production process
  Customer change Request (AA) process
  Purchasing/AP paper, supplies, and services process
  Shipping to Invoice/AR process

Every component of your administrative processes are scrutinized including your business practices, forms, computer entries, handwritten documents, reports, inter-company communications, customer interactions, supplier interactions, department handoffs, employee responsibilities, bottlenecks, delay points, value added and non-value added activities, cost factors, and more. It eliminates the eight types of waste that are costly to a printing organization

Lean Printing Office is not about reducing staff. Lean Printing Office focuses  people’s efforts on activities that bring value to your customers and eliminates activities that do not (waste). It speeds up your administrative processes by eliminating the unnecessary steps, handoffs, and procedures in your workflow.

"Printing organizations have experienced up
to a 30% reduction in administrative costs
by implementing Lean Printing Office principles."