One of the most overlooked areas in any business is inventory. Not that companies don’t care about inventory, but they don’t spend nearly enough time managing inventory like they should, and their bottom-line suffers for it. So in an effort to relieve some headache, here are some ways to save money on inventory management.
The new year is here and it’s time to check in on your vendors and assess how they’re doing. You are looking at every angle to see if you need to switch. Here’s what to look for in your paper provider to see if it’s time to make a change.
You have clients all over the world and business is going well. Now it is time to ship your completed orders to your clients. How can you complete it within budget? Where do you start? Let’s take a look at how to cut your paper shipping costs.
Whether it’s summer or wintertime, energy costs are an expected, yet unfortunate expense that many building managers often overlook.
Energy costs can burn into your bottom line and eat away at your profits. If you manage a facility, you are aware that energy costs skyrocket during this time of the year, but you are often left wondering what you can do. To combat these high costs, here are a few ways that your facility can conserve energy.
When you decide on a paper product, it’s important that you begin with the end in mind. You have to have an idea how the paper will be used. There are many different weights and glosses of paper that affect printing. The type of paper determines the quality. A heavier paper is going to feel more luxurious than a thinner paper. Compare a wedding invitation to a grocery store receipt. They’re both printed on paper, but feel worlds apart. When choosing multipurpose paper for an office, 24lb paper makes a huge difference compared to 20lb everyday copy paper.
Look around, what kinds of things surround you? Electronics, snacks, pieces of paper? These products didn’t just materialize; they were part of a long process requiring resources from around the world. Your tiny smartphone is composed of hundreds of compartments that require different metal and glass pieces that had to be mined, manufactured, and then transported. Even a sheet of paper has a larger footprint than just the tree it came from. It requires water and energy to go from a large tree to a perfectly thin and white sheet of paper.
