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We just release our CostRatesAdvisor.com BHR rates study and cost comparisons feature which enables you to compare your cost and budgeted hourly cost rates to other companies. CostRatesAdvisor compares your labor, factory, and overhead costs rates to thousands of costs rates from other companies.

We just release our CostRatesAdvisor.com BHR rates study and cost comparisons feature which enables you to compare your digital printing cost and budgeted hourly cost rates to other companies. CostRatesAdvisor compares your labor, factory, and overhead costs rates to thousands of costs rates...

We just release our CostRatesAdvisor.com BHR rates study and cost comparisons feature which enables you to compare your cost and budgeted hourly cost rates to other companies. CostRatesAdvisor compares your labor, factory, and overhead costs rates to thousands of costs rates from other companies.

Profectus printing industry management consultants, is looking for partners that offer accounting, finance, estimating, costing, process improvement, business development, MIS, sales & marketing, or other value-added consulting services to the printing and packaging industry. Do you want to...

Knowing your BHRs is the foundation for estimating your out-of-pocket costs to support your pricing decisions. BHRs are the hourly cost rate in which you must sell your equipment or services in order to break-even or recover your out-of-pocket costs. Some organizations make the mistake of using...

Good example of how to come up with pricing for digital using a cost plus markup model: http://costratesadvisor.com/images/example-HP-Indigo-cost-rates.jpg

Price, Quality, Service - Pick 2? Lowering your hourly rate is not the best practice for pricing. Your hourly rates should reflect your OOP (out of pocket) cost. Once you've determined your OOP using budgeted hourly cost rates software such as http://costratesadvisor.com/ than add your desired...

What good is your estimating & costing software if your cost rates are inaccurate? How often do you update your equipment cost rates? Read: "How inaccurate Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates almost put Quality Printing out of business." http://costratesadvisor.com/casestudy/ to find out what happens...

How often do you update your equipment cost rates? The beginning of a new year is always a good time to update rates. Companies using www.costratesadvisor.com tend to updated their rates more frequently.

How often do you update your equipment cost rates? The beginning of a new year is always a good time to update rates. Users of www.costratesadvisor.com tend to updated their rates more frequently. Read: "How inaccurate Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates almost put Quality Printing out of business."...

Do you includes click charges in your estimating hourly cost rates (BHRs) or do you estimating them separately?

Will you be updating your estimating cost rates for 2014? Your printing business evolves. So do your costs. Cost Rates Advisor budgeted hourly cost rates software helps printing and packaging companies keep their equipment and services cost rates up-to-date so they're always recovering costs...

Creep is equal to caliper of one sheet for every 4 pages. So if your paper caliper is .0032", than you need to add .0032" for every 4 pages.

New Budgeted Hourly Cost Rates “Cloud” software simplifies the task of calculating budgeted hourly cost rates for your equipment. The Cost Rates Advisor is easy to use, software designed for the printing and packaging industry to take the mystery out of calculating budgeted hourly cost rates for...

Yes, EPMS has done numerous implementations/integrations with prepress workflow solutions. In most cases they use the JDF standard, but every integration is custom. JDF is not plug-n-play. So you should speak with the people at EPMS directly about your requirements.

Most complete MIS, Web2Print for digital/large format printing? There's at least 10 systems in the North American market that can address the needs of digital and large format printing. Do you have any specific requirements and what modules are you lookng for? z(Estimating, order entry...

Matthew, Hourly rates for a press are based on your cost of doing business and cost recovery. How you price it out is based on the market you are in, your customers, your product offerings, and the profit margin you want or can get. I'm giving a full day workshop on preparing budgeted hourly...

Shuttleworth MIS Shuttleworth MIS Vaughn, Our company has been helping printing and packaging companies in the US and Canada evaluate, select, and implement MIS systems for 18 years. Is Shuttleworth now avaialble in the US or Canada? MIS Software Consulting for the Printing and Packaging...

Payday for sales reps. and Value Added Commissions Payday for sales reps. and Value Added Commissions The industry best practice is to pay sales reps a percentage of the estimated or planned value added. Example: $6,000 Materials/buyouts cost $10,000 All Inclusive cost...

Pre-production planning and job tickets Pre-production planning and job tickets Before production touches a job, each job should have a “blueprint” or plan indicating just how production will produce it. The plan identifies the job specifications, production instructions, and the production...