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"Xdata solutions’
Rules-Based Product Configurator is designed with both ease of order
entry, accuracy in product selection and timeliness of manufacture.
From the beginning we felt Customer Order-Entry must be an
easy-to-use system. It is designed for clerical level data-entry
that is inherently coupled with intricate Engineering considerations
(rules)."
- see
White Paper #3 below:
1. Distributed Manufacturing
By
Charles L. Gaby, CPIM
2. Understanding Manufacturing Cost
Accounting
3. Custom Made Furniture
By Charles L.
Gaby, CPIM
4. Understanding Rules-based
Configuration
5. Paperless Office Automation - eDistribute
Paperless Office Automation
for Manufacturing & Distribution Companies
...
Do you know
the cost of printing paper documents in your office?
Read this explanation to learn why
you should figure it costs about one
dollar for every page printed. You
need to figure each employee prints
about 10 sheets per day and each
sheet costs you one dollar (explain-
ed below). An average business
(30 office employees) that doesn't
use electronic document distribu-
tion is wasting $75,000 per year:
Printing documents is much more
costly than
companies realize.
Indiana University operates as a non-profit organization.
It charges students 4 cents per page for printing (to recover costs associated
with the entire print process) including toner, paper, replacement parts,
personnel, hardware and software support, as well as
database and server management of
the systems that support the print process. The price per page is below that of
commercial laser printing services, and below the cost per page of ink used in
personal inkjet printers.
The average per-page cost of plain-paper printing runs a little
over 4 cents per
page, but that isn't the crux of the problem. If documents costing
about 4 cents a piece fell out of the printer and then automatically
disappeared, then the cost of printing documents would be obvious ..but they
don't automatically disappear.
1. Staff needs to retrieve and organize about half the pages
printed ...the other half are immediately thrown away.
2. Staff needs route and/or deliver the non-trashed, printed
materials to recipients.
3. Many of these printed documents are folded, stuffed into
expensive pre-printed company envelopes, and run through a postage
meter (or they require that postage stamps be affixed.) This step in
a document's life typically consumes 41 cents in postage plus 15 -20
cents in staff time.
4. Each additional document recipient needs to file (and/or organize
printed documents.) Printed documents are often periodically
"pulled" from the files and then re-filed. This step of a document's
life requires staff time, office furniture (cabinets?), and floor
space.
5. Periodically stored documents are purged of excess copies,
transferred to a file storage location, until they have fulfilled
their useful life.
6. At the end of their useful life, documents are typically purged
and transported to a trash site, or shredded and then transported to
a trash site.
Don't think for a minute that printing a 7-page purchase order
costs about 28 cents ...or that a 5-page invoice costs about 20
cents.
Documents like Purchase Orders, Invoices, Statements, and Customer
Order-Acknowledgements are usually printed on pre-printed forms to
assure that all of the "legal speak" is included for recipients.
Forms printing is significantly more costly than simple document
printing ...partly because forms are expensive than plain paper.
I have participated in studies which showed that every page a
company prints costs the company about one dollar.
Interested?
- for more information contact: sales@xdata.com
