We had the opportunity to interact with Deborah Corn, an Intergalactic Ambassador to The Printerverse, and Ryan McAbee at Keypoint Intelligence over LinkedIn.
Deborah publishes a podcast on numerous topics at Printverse and Ep.6 was quite interesting for our audience. We decided to showcase their podcast and transcript discussing the future of print MIS and what companies/businesses should be investing in 2021.
The importance of Cloud ERP and a subscription SaaS offering for print companies can be crucial to help scale their business.
Ep. 6 The Print Report with Deborah Corn and Pat McGrew. Guest Ryan McAbee
Deborah Corn and Pat McGrew talk to Ryan McAbee, Director of Production Workflow at Keypoint Intelligence about their just-released Production Workflow Forecast, and how COVID-19 factors into the future of software purchasing.
How to overcome challenges resulting from COVID-19 ?
Integrating new automation systems or welcoming new vendors and economic models to your business can help eliminate the negative cut backs COVID-19 has been causing for most business’s.
Why Pay for print through subscriptions?
As more users make the systemic change of paying for software through a monthly or yearly subscription it encourages the process of conversion making everyone’s lives easier.
More benefits of paying through subscriptions include freeing up tasks within your printshop since the administrative burden of having the software shifts to the vendor more, as well as normalize maintenance costs since that typically gets bundled in.
The sooner more and more customers and clients pay through subscriptions in 2021 rather than miss out later in 2022 the more beneficial the print experience becomes.
Creating an effective workforce for remote environments
With COVID-19 heavily affecting the workforce, letting employees adapt and work remotely is key to running an effective business during these times. Also enabling customers to work with your business remotely reduces the amount of in person engagements. Communicating remotely back and forth with customers by helping them with their orders and processes is what helps scale your business.
Managing a smart workflow
Hardware vendors play a critical role in managing a smart workflow. Because if conflicts between your workflow software and hardware start to rise its hard to scale your business. Having a good hardware vendor that gives you relevant information to what your hardware can accept will only make the process easier when you implement new software and generate a smart workflow.
Implementing new software for your print shop
After someone purchases new software to be used in their printshop the struggle occurs as someone has to come and implement that software. However the most secured process for this kind of implementation is by getting the provider to connect and install the software completely remotely by simply granting them access to your firewall and environment.
Print business need to work with Implementation team who have print expertise and capable of implementing the ERP solution for their business.
Summary
Considering the market trends and Ryan’s advice on the podcast “Now is the time to implement or seek a new cloud business software,” we would like to talk about our strategy for helping mid-size business’s scale their print business in the cloud with our fully integrated complete Cloud ERP Solution for print. – Acumatica Printshop
Cloud ERP Features
- SaaS hosting, hosted in the Cloud on AWS
- Yearly Subscription with Monthly or yearly payment
- Access anywhere, any time and on any device
- Fully integrated accounting, sales, purchasing, CRM, Manufacturing and Commerce
- Print ready solution with Printshop plugin
- Unlimited users, involve everyone, no printer left behind
- No Hardware or software to install, fully backed up and secured
Printshop Cloud ERP
Printshop Cloud ERP, a complete ERP solution that covers web to print, manage all your print jobs, from quote to invoices, sales and purchasing, CRM and integrated commerce, one software to run your entire business.
Integrated workflow print management solution
InfoSourcing Inc is a leading print solution provider for Acumatica Cloud ERP, we specialize in print and promo industries, with our print expertise and couple of ERP implementation across various print industries.
Reach out to us if your organization needs a modern Cloud ERP that’s on subscription offerings and hosted in cloud to dramatically increase your business.
