Worth the Trip

It's been a busy week with travel and meetings with potential customers. These are the kind of weeks I absolutely love and remind me that making the phone calls and doing the follow up are so important...and worthwhile. Yesterday, we were fortunate to have potential customers visit BPI Media Group's plant in Boaz, AL from the Atlanta area. I was reminded of how much we really can do under one roof, and the prospects seemed quite impressed as well.

Sometimes, it takes seeing to believe that we really can do all the design, prepress, print, bindery, mail and fulfillment from BPI's primary location in Boaz. As we made our way through the plant from department to department following the work flow, the faces of the employees were welcoming and confident. They're confident because most of them have been there for 10+ years...some even 20+ years. That's a lot of experience, and a lot of technology to keep up with as it is ever changing in our industry.

Having our Kodak Insite proofing system in place makes those who are hours (even states) away be able to proof immediately upon uploading files. Just because we're in Boaz doesn't mean it will take longer to get your proof. In fact, you'll get it faster through Insite. Seeing our conventional presses in motion and how a 40" 6-color offset press works is impressive if you haven't seen it before. The technology of our Kodak Nexpress digital press is also something to see. If you have custom pantone color needs, our pantone mixing system will knock your socks off. When we added 20,000+ square feet to the existing building in 2002, we allowed for room to grow and added room for a warehouse to hold fulfillment materials. Bindery was able to grow by added additional folders and fugutive glue features. This added space also allowed us to set up our own mail room with 2 inkjetters/tabbers in the mail department.

You don't have to take my word for it that we do it all at BPI in Boaz, come visit. I promise, it's worth the trip, and we'd love to have you!

Until next time...Elizabeth

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Making Space & Going Back to School!

Each time I'm in front of an existing customer, they ask " What's new with BPI?" Well, sometime's it's simply easier to show you than tell you. This week, I'll share some very exciting news as we are continuing to grow, add staff and start a new program for customers and prospects. BPI Media Group is excited about our growth and hope you'll help us keep up the pace!

You've heard the expression in real estate that it's easier to go up that out with your space? Well, that saying is true for the BPI warehouse. Check it out: we've added a new racking system to store inventory. The racking allows us to hold more materials and work smarter. This means inventoried items will be assigned rack and bin numbers, so whomever on our fulfillment team is doing the fulfillment can easily locate the items and fill the orders more efficiently. Music to a marketer's ears!

This system will not only make it easier for our fulfillment team to locate & pull items for orders, but it will also assist in managing any inventory BPI stores for you and further reduce any possible errors in miscounts or potentially misplaced items. Everything will have a "place" and is labeled accordingly to avoid any confusion. This is one of the many great feature of our storefront solution.

Here's what BPI's President, Alan Davis, had to say about this growth, "BPI Media Group has expanded our warehousing and fulffillment capabilities with additional pallet racking system for greater efficiencies. Combined with our storefront solution, we are able to manage marketing assets materials with real time reporting and freight tracking. BPI continues to make improvements and expand our capabilities in our warehouse and fulfillment department. With the addition of 80+ units of racking, we can inventory well over 300 additional pallets of marketing asset materials."

The other exciting BPI news I have to share with you is our continuing education program, BPI University. To sign up for the monthly email notifications about upcoming webinars at BPI University, click here. We would love for you to join us and learn more about the new services BPI is offering and how they can help save you time, money and stress! We'll host one webinar each month, so you will not want to miss the chance to join BPI's knowledgeable and experienced team members as they guide us in learning about these hot topics.

Upcoming webinar topics for BPI University:

• Insite 101
• Web development 101 & 102 advanced
• Storefront 101 & upcoming new features
• Emerging Technologies
• Adobe CS5 training

Of course, if you have any suggestions or requests for webinar topics, please feel free to contact us. We love to hear your feedback and want to continue to be a work in progress. After all, if you stop working, you stop progressing. Until next time...Elizabeth

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