Automation is key to maximising business performance in digital print and production. As the industry continues to innovate, the ability to automate processes efficiently and effectively can deliver competitive advantage, pricing freedom and simply make you more money.
Customers of Taopix are not exempt from automation successes: since our introduction of workflow features into Taopix, users are increasing their financial and production efficiencies. ZenSmart, the automation platform designed specifically for print-on-demand businesses, pushes automation to the next level increasing yield, efficiency and ultimately saving you money. Personalised gifts, photobooks, photo, garments, merchandise, and even outdoor signage are all some of the print projects which work seamlessly with ZenSmart.
We’re here to discuss what next level automation is all about, how it benefits Taopix customers, the steps to achieve 100% print automation, and the gains that are achievable within your business.
Key Steps to Automating Your Print:
- Embrace 100% Order Automation
Start by 100% automating your order processing across all your order sources. From retrieval to order creation, artwork correction to file archiving and applying business rules to set due dates – all should be automated. This will speed items onto your presses, deliver big reduction in costs plus enable work to be combined across order sources delivering major savings in production.
- Implement Automated Batch Formation
Minimise errors and uphold timely production standards through automated batch formation. As product ranges grow, this practice saves time, wastage and ultimately cash.
- Optimise Pick Lists and Labelling
Allow your team to focus on higher-value tasks by automating pick lists and labelling. Free your staff from the time consuming tasks in merchandise and garment workflows.
- Streamline Automation onto the Press
Use dynamic press rules to eliminate bottlenecks. By automating job submission, workflows can be automatically adjusted to the current conditions of production. Real-time imposition enables agile press-finishing workflow selection, so when you run out of capacity or a finishing device fails, you can fall back to other workflows.
- Track Every Action with Automated Monitoring
Implement automated tracking of every component of every order (from press to shipping) to ensure visibility and performance monitoring. This means you will never lose an item ever again. Plus, it delivers data that is crucial for continuous improvement and operational excellence, allowing for profitable business growth.
- Consolidate Orders Automatically
Reduce errors and streamline fulfilment by automating the grouping of items in orders, with business rule driven grouping – even across different product types. This reduces your ship costs and increases shipping capacity.
- Automate Shipping Processes
Improve your shipping performance with automated selection of the best shipping option to ‘least cost’ that meets your service SLA’s. Gain a competitive advantage by enabling personalised letters and vouchers, produced just-in-time at shipping to give customers that unique unboxing experience!
Automation in personalised print goes beyond efficiency and cost savings. With systems like ZenSmart, you gain increased agility, resilience, and enhanced decision-making. Automation helps you to quickly adapt to both market changes and operational challenges. Not only is your business agility increased, it is done so while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Following these steps transforms your personalised print operations into a finely tuned, more profitable machine. Automation boosts efficiency, reduces costs, and fosters agility and resilience.
Automation is essential for achieving competitive edges and improving margins. By optimising operations and embracing automation, you unlock new growth opportunities. Ready to explore how automation can transform your business? Contact us for insights and support.