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Serving the Greater Detroit Area and Beyond: EPI Marketing Services Livonia
When EPI Marketing Services wanted to better serve Detroit-area businesses – from the automakers to area Universities and beyond – leadership focused on opening a local facility. Setting their sites on Livonia, the leadership team found a strategic solution just off Jeffries Freeway near Farmington Road. Over the years, the Livonia facility has served Ford…
Read MoreHow VMI Saves Money and Increases Efficiency
If you’re seeking the opportunity to improve your supply chain management – whether it’s because you’re looking to avoid obsolescence or you want to simplify the intense administrative effort, vendor managed inventory (VMI) may be just what you’re looking for. A comprehensive VMI system simplifies the massively complex task of translating your MRP into a…
Read MoreHow Does EDI Work?
EDI stands for Electronic Data Interchange. This computer-to-computer exchange of information helps manage standard business documents such as purchase orders, invoices, inventory levels and shipping notices. EDI software solutions help to coordinate the exchange of business documents and data across a variety of platforms and programs. Businesses can use EDI for things like maintaining vendor-managed inventory (VMI)…
Read MoreCuring Obsolescence in the Digital Age
You know that obsolescence in print materials can drive costs up as efficiency drops. You see this especially the case for durable good manufacturers with a need for technical publication printing. In the digital age where PDFs and emails seem to be the norm, obsolescence can prove difficult to manage. For most manufacturers, inaccurate direct…
Read MoreHow to Avoid Obsolescence in Your Technical Publication Printing
Obsolescence in printing can bring efficiency down and drive costs up. For any business, especially durable good manufacturers with a need for technical publication printing, it can prove difficult to manage. Each new version of a document can mean lost product as you destroy what’s printed and outdated, or confusion as old documents are phased…
Read MoreReducing Cost of Goods Sold with Electronic Vendor Managed Inventory
Do more with less. It’s a directive for many leaders across business verticals. It seems especially true each year for durable goods manufacturers. Leading manufacturing companies – and their managers – face constant pressure to reduce cost of goods sold on a year over year basis. Assembly parts from labels to inserts, manuals, and cartons…
Read MoreThe “Boring” Job of Business Printing
Not every business gets to create sports car ads or Super Bowl commercials or epic short films for their products. In short, most of us in marketing and business development do what we do for “boring industries.” The same can be said for many other jobs. Most of the world operates in the everyday work…
Read MoreHow an EDI System Makes Manufacturing More Efficient
Many companies, especially manufacturers of durable goods, face constant pressure to reduce cost of goods sold on a year over year basis. Labels, inserts, manuals, tech sheets and cartons have become a commodity, and it’s tougher each year to lower your cost as paper prices and freight costs fluctuate. Increasing efficiency, reducing cost and adding…
Read MoreHow VMI Technical Publications Make Assembly Lines More Efficient
Every plant manager and manufacturing executive leader dreams of an efficient assembly line. Efficiency leads to cost savings. Whether we’re talking minutes shaved off a process or seconds, it all adds up. People look everywhere for inspiration, from looking at other countries to exploring specific styles like Lean Manufacturing. One solution to adding efficiency (and…
Read MoreVMI Methods – What Is Right For You? JIT? Consignment?
JIT and Consignment are both methods of inventory management. To learn more, read on.
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