Commercial Print Management

In a typical organization, printing encompasses anywhere from 3-5% of total operating cost. It’s a fluctuating and unpredictable expense, difficult to plan and monitor. How do you know if you are getting the full value for every dollar you spend on printing functions? Our highly trained industry experts can help you answer that while finding hidden savings opportunities.

Cross-Category Expertise

In spite of the prevalence of electronic solutions, print is still an essential component for business marketing, branding, communications, and operations. To maximize the return on your printing investments, you need to find the most cost-effective solution for every aspect, from publishing to printing to delivery. There are literally hundreds of details and specifications to consider, especially in light of constantly changing technologies, pricing models, and requirements.

At Fulton Francis, we’ve an extensive knowledge of all primary printing suppliers, including their capabilities and pricing structures. Our printing expertise spans all categories, including marketing collateral, POS (Point of Sale), direct mail, business forms, packaging, labels, essential mail, outdoor, and more. We constantly assess products and suppliers in thirty separate categories to determine the best opportunities for value and quality. By maintaining up to date knowledge of print supply chain models, we help you get full value from your printing dollars.

Assessing Opportunities

Your printing dollars are spent on many essential functions, such as ordering, warehousing, distribution, billing, and reporting. Are your current vendor agreements delivering maximum value? We’ll perform a thorough analysis of your current situation in all key areas: quality, service, systems, innovation, and pricing, comparing them against best industry practices. We are adept at collecting and analysing all relevant information and costs, helping you truly understand how your money is being spent.

Strategic Management

As an independent services provider, our sole objective is to help you get more from your vendor relationships. We do this by performing regular price and invoice audits, assisting in dispute resolution, evaluating vendors, analyzing market pricing, and leveraging the broader vendor community to get the latest products and innovations. If you don’t have the resources and capability to do this in-house, let Fulton Francis act on your behalf to deliver full value for every print dollar.

Program Custodianship

Who in your organisation is responsible for reducing your print and digital media supply chain cost? Who is constantly in touch with print reduction and supply chain solutions and bringing those ideas to you and implementing them? Well that’s what we do. We’ll either own the strategy or transfer the functionality and capability to you at your request leaving you with all the tools and knowledge you’ll need to drive results.