Business Management - Insourcing

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.

The State of Tennessee’s Document Solutions operation recently took over the office signage contract, which covers all indoor signage like directories and the name plates that go on cubicles and office doors.

Every in-plant outsources something; the smart ones look for opportunities to bring those outsourced services in-house. For Whatcom Community College, one of those services was perfect binding.

When Marshfield Clinic Health System pondered outsourcing, its in-plant made a better suggestion: upgrade and save even more money. Thanks in part to a new inkjet press, the shop is more productive than ever.