Business Management - Insourcing

At the IPMA 2024 conference, Martin James of Deer Valley Unified School District discussed the importance of insourcing to strengthen an in-plant, and explained how his in-plant’s insourcing of curriculum materials from other school districts has generated impressive revenue.

By insourcing print work from external companies, the in-plant for Formula One team Mercedes AMG-Petronas has greatly increased its volume.

It's always better for in-plants to spend time on communication and customers up front and create a built-in resistance to outsourcing among leadership than to be reactive when faced with a worse-case scenario. Here’s how one in-plant does it.

The only way to make a significant improvement in your in-plant’s performance is to invest in hardware or software. To get management’s buy-in, though, requires a detailed due diligence process. Consultant Howie Fenton offers some advice.

Western Carolina University’s in-plant attained the First Right of Refusal by piggybacking to an existing policy proposal.

Most in-plants would agree that having the First Right of Refusal for all their parent organization’s print work would make their lives much easier. Yet only 37% have it. Here’s how one in-plant got it and how it is benefiting the parent organization.

Fueled by the pandemic, industry consultants have recently been promoting the outsourcing of in-plant work. Here's a strategy to prepare for such discussions.

Encouraged by its university’s push for “strategic partnerships,” Messiah University Press has become the surrogate in-plant for a local school district, generating cost savings for both organizations.

Yale Printing & Publishing Services recently assembled 7,000 welcome back kits for Yale University students. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the in-plant has handled fulfillment of COVID-related items and PPE inventory for the university.

With a focus on bringing outsourced print work back in-house while capitalizing on the demand for new services like scanning, University of Bristol Print Services is evolving and improving every day.