Doing your homework pays off……

For a second year in a row, Kopytek Inc. has been named one of the Top 25 Printing Companies in the St. Louis area by the St. Louis Business Journal. We moved to No. 22 this year from No. 23 last year. And I truly believe that doing our homework was responsible for a great deal of that success.

I’m a numbers kind of guy. And that helped a great deal during the years of research we invested into improving our production workflow. We figured our biggest costs — besides paper and labor – was materials handling. 17 cents of every dollar was spent on materials handling. Our new workflow design was able to reduce that to 3.5 cents per dollar.

It started with kinetics. If you can take 25 steps and make those 8 steps by changing the layout, then you’ve done your homework. So we put in place things like a good staging area, more space for materials storage and a natural production floor layout in the building. The savings in workflow allowed us to invest in top-of-the-line equipment and expand our versatility and capacity. 

In order to improve efficiencies, it’s important to do your homework and who knows, it just might pay off in the long run. It did for us.