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Your Complete Direct Materials Partner

You and your company face constant pressure to reduce cost of goods sold on a year-over-year basis. Labels, inserts, manuals, and cartons are a commodity and it's tougher each year to lower your cost as paper prices and freight costs increase. In working with some of the world’s largest manufacturers of appliances, electronics, medical devices and consumer packaged goods, EPI Marketing Services has developed a world-class solution to this dilemma.

Our Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and Consignment services combine best-practice lean manufacturing and supply chain techniques, sophisticated IT integration capabilities and a scalable, flexible printing and fulfillment infrastructure. This solution is designed to reduce your company’s total cost of ownership by lowering the costs of inventory, quality, transactions and transportation- all while beating the market on print production. Based on jointly-established business rules, EPI develops our Just-in-time (JIT) production schedule and maintains a consignment inventory level that you pay for only upon consumption.

In addition to our VMI solution, EPI also offers in-house fulfillment, robust Digital Asset Management (DAM), a feature-rich Electronic Low Stock Notification (eLSN) system and many other services that make up the most comprehensive set of printed material supply chain solutions available.

Put our automated EDI-based MRP integration technology platform to work along with our production equipment specifically designed around technical publications. Add in our VMI, JIT and Consignment offerings and see efficiency increase while your total cost of ownership decreases.

The EPI Guarantee:

If our proven process does not generate 5% annual Total Cost of Ownership improvement in your sales force support program in the areas of transportation, inventory, quality, packaging, administrative effort and materials, we will take it out of our price.

Capabilities

Print and Media Production including, but not limited to manuals, guides, booklets, labels, folding cartons, warranty and registration cards, CD/DVDs

Technology and Vendor Managed Inventory MRP forecast integration, Just-in-time (JIT) production scheduling, EDI transaction, consignment inventory, payment upon consumption

Turnkey Packaging Services including package design, prototyping, production, conversion, insertion, shrink wrapping, fulfillment

Digital Asset Management (DAM) Market leading, enterprise-class DAM system, browser-based, user access control, fully searchable metadata, notification and collaboration features, on-the-fly image repurposing

Electronic Low Stock Notification (eLSN) Low stock email alerts and online stock management portal, view detailed usage history, automatic EOQ calculation, submit replenishment actions online

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Curing Obsolescence

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