Print Smarter for Enterprise-Wide Savings Simple truth (based on our experience): if you are spending a lot of money on printed materials, chances are you are wasting a lot of it by spending it inefficiently. This holds true at almost any spending level; but it...
Eco-Friendly Print Ideas to Celebrate Earth Day Every Day! Happy Earth Day! And I say that proudly on behalf of Superior and the whole print-on-paper industry. If you read Thursday’s post, you know we have plenty to celebrate as one of the most recyclable products and...
Navigating PPE Purchasing? Buyer Beware! Here’s Help If the COVID-19 situation has taught us anything, it has solidified the need to be proactive against not only the coronavirus, but seasonal flu and others. The need for businesses to protect themselves, their...
Here’s How We Delivered 7,000,000 NIOSH-Approved N95 and FDA-authorized Non-NIOSH Respirators On Thursday, I told the story of Superior stepping up to meet a critical need in Michigan. Other companies declined the request, and others were unable to deliver....
Corporate Kiosk Works From Home, Too Remember when you were concerned about making sure your people staffing branch offices or remote facilities were on the same page as your main office? Well, current events make those seem like the good old days. Right now, many...
When You Have Print Supply Chain Management, They Won’t Say “Boo” Sorry for the attempt at Halloween humor. But the spooky season does give me a chance to talk about a frightful mistake many companies are still making with their print management and...
Where to Go When You Need to Know You know, as a regular reader, that one of our most frequent topics is procurement efficiency. No surprise, of course. Our “managed print services” simplify and streamline that process for printed materials and promotional...
RFID Builds a Business in Many Ways Last week, I wrote about the value of RFID technology, and the great improvement it represents over other automatic identification technologies. I mentioned that we are ready and able to offer you help with RFID, whether you are...
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Tracks Well with Your Business Plan I know I have a very diverse group of readers. Many of you are well aware of RFID and its benefits. Others may think it’s about delivering mail in farm country. But good news: I’m here to...
Time to Take Stock—and Action in Print At the end of the year, we reflect on the past; and “looking back” sounds like some sentimental journey. But it’s a logical time to take a breath and assess, with a year’s worth of perspective, how certain parts of your operation...
Proof Positive That Print Helps Your Businesses Succeed Thursday I talked about offering customers the choice of printed invoices and statements, rather than a “digital only” system. I shared research from Two Sides North America that proves consumers are less...
How to Avoid Time, Space, and Cost Hassles Let’s continue our discussion of promotional kitting. In my last post, I started out by talking about what promotional kitting means. At the end, I promised today I would share a few tips on how to make promotional kitting...
Promotional Kitting Generates Profitable Results We’ve been talking here recently about kitting and fulfillment. Today, I’d like to focus on promotional kitting. Because promotional kitting combines strategic thinking and creativity to generate profitable results....
How to Avoid Problems with Product Kitting and Fulfillment Services Sometimes a good idea fails because of bad execution. Think of the six neighborhood guys that met to shovel the deep snow off an elderly neighbor’s driveway. When they got there, they discovered they...
The Best Way to Shape Up What You’re Shipping Out For those not yet familiar with the term “what is kitting and fulfillment” that we covered in a recent post. Let’s say you know very well what the term means, but perhaps you simply aren’t sure how kitting and...
10 Blogs That Offer Valuable Supply Chain Management Advice It’s no secret that a well-designed and managed supply chain can make the difference between profitable growth and stressful uncertainty. If you’re a regular reader, you know that I frequently talk...
Print Supply Chain Management: An Opportunity for Profit I’ve given this post a pretty basic headline. And I’ll answer the question it asks in a moment. But first, let’s look at why people are losing money in business by failing to understand what print supply chain...
6 Ways to Increase Efficiency in the Workplace from Sleep to Supply Chain Management There’s nothing wrong with summer hours and a more casual atmosphere. But summer might be the perfect time to try out a few of these ideas on making the time you do spend at the...
Combine Visual Management Tools with Supply Chain Management Technology for 5S and LEAN Manufacturing Success In my last post I talked about addressing the 7 wastes identified in LEAN Manufacturing. Today I want to talk about 5S methodology and LEAN implementation...
LEAN Adds Logic to Supply Chain Management Solutions We have addressed the seven wastes in LEAN manufacturing in previous posts. LEAN manufacturing is a relatively new concept to American business, and it required vision and plenty of “getting used to” to understand...
