Sometimes you need a fresh pair of eyes to help identify improvement opportunities for distributing your marketing materials. We know how it is; you repeat the same processes over and over. You know there may be a better way, but you don’t have the time to research alternatives. Getting an expert to analyze your current processes and systems for free doesn’t seem realistic, or does it? Today’s potential vendor is willing to work hard for your business. They may forgo travel costs and resources for a chance at your business. They will spend a couple days at your office analyzing your current processes and talking to key stakeholders, and at the end of the process provide you will a proposal on how to save money. This process is called an Assessment, and when you are given the opportunity to receive one for free don’t pass it up. The knowledge you can receive is priceless and there’s no obligation to utilize the vendor.
Success Stories
By receiving a free assessment, two Fortune 1000 retailers were able to make changes that saved them significant dollars. You can read their success stories below.
- Improved Visibility Reduces Excess Charges
A leading retailer was handling the fulfillment of their marketing POS materials in-house, and quickly realized that they were not able to efficiently manage and track their inventory. The retailer reached out to Archway for a no obligation, no cost assessment. What did the retailer find out? They learned valuable insights; such as the lack of visibility into their marketing material supply chain was resulting in excess print overages, unnecessary replenishment orders, rush freight charges, and scrap material charges. In addition, they learned their manual order management processes was quickly eating away at their ROI. After implementing Archway’s recommendations, the retailer reduced expedited freight by 50%, reduced print overages by 5%, reduced labor, and reduced space in the retailers warehouse by 40,000 square feet.
- Best Practices Bring Millions in Savings
Another leading retailer engaged with Archway to assess their current process, compare it to industry best practices and provide an analysis of opportunity to improve processes and reduce costs. What the retailer found was that they had the opportunity to reassign nearly $3 million in annual costs by implementing a best-practice marketing operations process within the areas of order management, fulfillment processes, in-store execution, and program visibility.
What Can You Do?
Find a fulfillment company that provides free assessments that have a no obligation policy. With their suggestions you can start saving money and be the hero at your company.