Who is Deciding Your Success in MPS?

What are you looking for in an MPS tool? If you have already responded to this question, who are you commissioning in your organization when it comes to evaluating it? Would I surprise you if I tell you that three out of nine organizations will ask their order fulfillment and
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MPS Compliance and Its Impact on MPS Success

What is MPS Compliance? The Managed Print Service Association defines Managed Print Services as “the active management and optimization of document output devices and related business processes.” To this, we would like to introduce the concept of MPS compliance, which is the
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Lean Management in Managed Print Services for Dealers Part 4

Part 3 of the set of articles ”Lean Management in MPS” tasks about how the dealer’s business is influenced by the usage of an MPS solution that contains Lean components. The first advantages the dealer gets benefits his/her customers. As a result the dealer differentiates his
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Lean Management in Managed Print Services for Dealers Part 3

In our previous article on Lean management in MPS, we talked, from the perspective of the distributor, how MPS benefits from Lean management principle: creating more value for customers with fewer resources (see more at Lean Enterprise Institute). Once a distributor implements
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Lean Management in Managed Print Services Part 2

In our previous article (Click here to read Part 1) we have established the link between Lean management and MPS. Indeed, this philosophy has brought many companies’ success (Wal*Mart, Inditex, Dell) and no matter the size of the company, it is top of mind of the most successful
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Lean Management in Managed Print Services Part 1

An unstable economic situation like the one we are living in acts as an incentive to practice lean thinking. Though this is a concept born for the industry, it is absolutely valid in any type of activity, from the administration, to warehouse and of course production. The largest
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