It’s not news that the coronavirus pandemic affected the automotive industry, causing car dealers to struggle to keep a full inventory of new cars on the lot. This shortage of new cars drove up the price of used cars and motivated more consumers to choose a used car over new when purchasing a vehicle. This may seem like a boon for auto repair shops that make revenue on repairing used vehicles, but the opposite is true. Now, auto body shops are feeling the supply shortage pinch as well, as aftermarket industries bend under parts and labor shortages.
How to Leverage the Power of Inventory Management for Your Auto Repair Shop
Topics: #DocumentManagement, Auto Repair, Inventory management
Business Automation: The Future of Engineering
Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) companies are facing a decision: How to proceed forward in an economy where efficiency, cost management, and risk management are key? Historically, the AEC industry suffers from inefficiencies and difficulties founded in miscommunication as they deal with siloed departments and offices that use various systems to support daily functions. This produces a number of problems that have a direct impact on bottom lines, including:
Topics: #managedIT, #DocumentManagement, Managed print, business automation
Many gyms and health clubs were hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic when widespread health and safety protocols caused many to close their doors. As the country continues to reopen, health clubs are finding that consumer attitudes have transformed, making it more important than ever for clubs to make the customer experience a priority.
Topics: #DocumentManagement, #healthclubs, #betterclubexperience, #gyms
Improving Operational Efficiency with Digital Tools
Only one thing was certain over the last year — and that was that change is constant. Across all industries, changes wrought by the ongoing pandemic brought great challenges, but also unexpected opportunities. And nowhere was this more evident than in the manufacturing industry, where according to one survey, nearly all players saw their business suffering long-term effects from the pandemic. In response to these changes, however, 91% of manufacturers have increased their interest — and investment — in digital technologies to fuel a transformation.
Topics: #managedIT, #DocumentManagement, #Manufacturing, #operationalefficency, DigitalTransformation, Manufacturers, #digitaltools, #printmanagment
Increase Your Golf or Country Club Membership with These Marketing Strategies
While many areas of the hospitality industry saw reduced revenues as the coronavirus pandemic continued to wreak disruption, one segment of the industry learned how to thrive. The segment? Country clubs. The secret to their success? Innovation.
Topics: #wideformatprinters, #DocumentManagement, #CountryClubs, marketing strategies for golf or country clubs
The Best Office Tech for Busy Architectural Firms
Architects and their staff have always relied on tools to create projects and plans that illustrate good design and help their clients live, work, and play in better, more cohesive environments. But the industry has come a long way since the advent of the drafting table, compass, and mechanical pencil. Today’s busy architectural firms rely on a host of forward-looking tools and technologies that increase design capabilities and make daily tasks easier and more frustration-free.
Topics: #wideformatprinters, #multifunctionalprinter, #DocumentManagement, #ArchitectureFirms, MFP, architectualoffice, printmanagement, productionprint
Why End-to-End Workflows Are Critical for Large Engineering Projects
Engineers are expected to pay attention to details all of the time, as errors in a typical large engineering project — think bridges, roadways, buildings, and pipelines — can lead to financial disaster and even loss of life. It is essential that engineers keep control of and understand the data they are handling.
Topics: #BluebeamRevu, #Engineering, #DocumentManagement, bluebeam, end-to-end workflow, end-to-end engineering workflows, architecture
How Your General Practice’s Efficiency Benefits from Document Management
During the coronavirus epidemic, the nation’s healthcare workers went into overdrive to care for their regular patients plus those needing special assistance battling the virus. The trend toward overwork is continuing, however, putting many physicians and their staff at risk of burnout.
Topics: healthcare, #DocumentManagement, #DMS, general practice efficiency, general practice
Document Management: The Cure for Unstructured Data
It is a frustrating fact, but employees are still wasting time searching for the information they need to be productive. In fact, each employee spends at least 25% of their time searching for— and not finding — the documents they need. And their managers? They spend half their time doing routine tasks that could be better handled with workflow automation. Overall, up to 21% of total staff productivity loss is directly related to issues surrounding documents.
Topics: #MPS, #DocumentManagement, Managed print
Exploring the Fine Points of Document Management
This year, all industries are reporting an increased adoption of document management systems (DMS) in response to the need for expanded work efficiencies and a focus on digital transformation, as more companies move toward a paperless environment.
Topics: managed print services, Print Management, #DocumentManagement, ThoughtLeadership