Marketing Supply Chain

Information, thoughts, ideas, news trends and educational insights on the marketing supply chain – the people, processes, vendors, resources and dependencies organizations rely on to turn creative output into graphic communication materials for marketing initiatives.

Print Buying Assistance: The Importance of Expertise and Experience

It’s often said that developing expertise requires making mistakes and learning from them. However, in the fast-paced world of print procurement, you don’t have much time or money to learn from experience. Yet you need a huge amount of expertise. Consider just a few of the aspects of print procurement requiring expertise. After you or […]
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No One Should Have to Fight a Dragon Alone

You put time and effort into building a good relationship with your print vendor. You trust each other. Your printer is capable of producing what you need — whether it’s direct mail, marketing materials, promo, signage or POP displays. And your printer delivers your items on time, at the quality level you expect and at […]
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Best Quality, Price and Service – Get All Three: Built for the Job

Unfortunately, none of what is required for an organization to manage pre- and post-pricing details and break the Iron Triangle is handled by the methods and tools commonly used in procurement. They simply are not built for managing and sourcing custom print projects. That is why PrintLynxx exists…to do what common procurement solutions can’t. Only […]
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Best Quality, Service and Price – Get All Three: Breaking the Iron Triangle

In the previous segments we discussed the importance of managing the many pre- and post-pricing details of custom print projects. Because the ready-made, off-the-shelf goods they are built to buy don’t require the same level of detail; commonly-used procurement methods and tools don’t provide such functionality. That’s unfortunate, because those same functions also set the […]
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Best Quality, Service and Price – Get All Three: Post Pricing Details

There isn’t much to be done once the buy is made for off-the-shelf goods. Custom printing, because of it’s made-to-specification nature, requires a lot more attention after the buy is made. This is especially true when achieving the best quality and service are part of the goal. General procurement doesn’t have to account for such […]
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Best Quality, Service and Price – Get All Three: Pre-Pricing Details

Procurement methods for common, off-the-shelf items are not built to handle all of the details print projects require before pricing is considered, let alone sought. Management and qualification of vendors, development of intensely detailed specifications and collaboration among key people who are often in very diverse roles are not as critical when sourcing pre-made items […]
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Best Quality, Service and Price – Get All Three: Introduction

No doubt you would love to receive the best quality, fastest delivery and lowest price for your print projects. Yet, conventional wisdom says only two of the three on any given job can be obtained. After all, increasing quality and speeding up delivery certainly does not drive the price down. So, how can you achieve […]
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eLynxx Solutions to Provide Print Buying Software to Johns Hopkins University

eLynxx Solutions is pleased to include Johns Hopkins University among the clients using its flagship PrintLynxx. PrintLynxx is cloud software that is built for print buyers to streamline and simplify the specification, sourcing and management of custom printed communications. PrintLynxx is well suited for higher education where insight to autonomous print buying across many areas […]
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