BPO

Beyond Email: Re-envisioning the Print-Buying Process

There’s nothing like a crisis to highlight weaknesses. The current economic and health crisis is prompting a reassessment of nearly every business practice, including print-buying.  The printing industry historically has been responsive to changes in the technology of printing, but when it comes to handling orders, it’s stuck to traditional, low-tech manual processes. Many print […]
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6 Reasons Why Business Process Outsourcing is Dead

A decade and a half ago business pundits in the marketing procurement area hailed it as a savior. Business process outsourcing – or contracting the operations and responsibilities of marketing procurement to third-party service providers – promised cost savings that would increase a company’s flexibility. According to these pundits, business process outsourcing provides some advantages […]
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Who Eats the Last Slice of Your Print Spend Pie?

We’ve been hearing the print buying community ask “does outsourcing really save any money and where do the dollars go compared to in-house print buying?” When you’ve been helping print buyers at many different levels for four decades you gain a lot of insight into a lot of areas. Through analysis of data, first-hand experience […]
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