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Again, sales seems to not like that side of it. We've tried that before, and somehow they never were able to sell any of it. Why you might ask? They didn't want to. The money wasn't there. Why get a job for a "special" when you can order new stock and get more commission? Its a vicious...

Love the dutch principle, I know customers would love it! I have already started that concept where I've selected which stock we will use as our "house" stock. I've determined that by seeing which stocks sold the most or the most frequently over the past 2 years. Was tedious, but I got a...

Thanks for the reply, it seems like a great idea. I'm checking with another portion of the forums in order to figure out if there is a way within the U.S. to donate paper and get a tax write-off, but we shall see.

Kind of a curve ball question: Our company has a large amount of left over paper stock that is owned by the company. Stock has been sitting on our shelf between 3 months to a few years. The premise: Donate leftover stock that we don't use anymore to a non-profit. Cut the stock to 8.5 x 11...

My company uses EFI Logic Estimating 3 module. We use this because it ties into the many of Logic modules we use and it saves a lot of time when trying to estimate any type of job, whether complicated or simple.

No pictures mind you, but this is a story I got from another lean forum: Implementation of 5S in a small company He was having issues at first, but a lot of what occurred that made it all work was management buy-in. Not just "yea we'll do it" but actual support from management and...

I'm thankful for having my job I'm thankful for my family I'm thankful for the Eagles being in the divisional playoffs I'm thankful for Lewis Black and his endless expletives I'm thankful for 2 hours of sleep I'm thankful for toilet paper I got nothing left :P

I'll agree with your comment to a point. The big 3 automakers are making cars that are both profitable for themselves as well as demanded by the market. In a "true" free market we would be able to say "we want an electric car" and the suppliers would create one. Simple enough of course, but...

After careful analysis of David's explanation, I understand what he is trying to get across and I will agree with his analysis. A potential better way to handle what you are trying to do would be to analyze what is going on in order to create "work cells". A work cell is "an arrangement of...

Love the bread analogy. Thanks for your input! The bare bones idea of how to deal with sales is really simple once I get a system down and actually approved. There is this awesome divide that's convoluted in itself: 1) The sales team wish to be customer-centric, so at times if issues occur...

I gotta jump in again on David's assessment and disagree with some of his comments. Your explanation that repetitive manufacturing operations can use takt time is correct. However, I still believe you can take those same tools and put it toward a printing company. As Ron described, this...

Hey gang: Thought I'd drop in and say hello. HELLO! :D Anyhoo, whole set of new problems has popped up at me this year, so I need some potential advice that could help me out within this predicament. Subject: house stock vs. customer-centric mindset My print company has a small press...

Advice? I like to use functions! As we know, or some of us know, Takt time = Net Time available to work / the total demand. So before you dive into this, you need to understand the data: 1) How many jobs a day do you get through prepress? 2) How long does it take on average to get a specific...

many subjects in one pot many subjects in one pot Ok, this branched from just selling printers to Iran to proper business practices to union legitimacy. Gotta love our current economy! 1) As rbailleu stated, unions were a great thing in the past. They provided security, safety, fairness...

It might seem harmless to sell printers. But to sell this type of equipment to the infidels is literally like selling them WMDs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE HAVE AN EXCUSE, LETS INVADE!!!! But seriously. The US government loves to sanction countries that don't drum to their beat. Then the media will...

Almost every post Leanist creates is about allmoxy. I would not trust his judgment.

Printers have to follow what designers want. If a designer has CS4, we have to obtain CS4 to ensure the file will be read correctly. This goes for illustrator, photoshop and indesign. If we don't upgrade we lose customers, pure and simple. The cost of upgrading is at times steep, but I...

While on the subject: What blogs and websites do some of you that follow the lean forum get your "lean" news? I have two, not the greatest but they have some interesting articles: Evolving Excellence leanblog.org | Lean Blog | Lean Manufacturing | Lean Healthcare | Toyota Production System...

This article compared lean suppliers to China. Kind of daunting to most, but the analysis is quite good, I'm waiting to see if I can get my hands on the actual data to compare the results, but its an interesting article nonetheless. Lean suppliers competitive with China Found it from this...

Alright, wanted to get this out because I've been researching this for about 3 months now and my company is about to do an audit to get Tri-certified within a few certifications. I'm going to just list the certifications, if anyone wishes to elaborate on any, whether it be information on how to...