Studio One Reaps The Benefits Of CMYUK’s Free Audit For All EFI Customers
Once something can be measured, it can be changed, and no one knows this better than Jon Sayers, MD, Studio One.
In the last 18 months, this Northampton-based PSP has gone through massive change – a directorship buy-out, a business redefined, plus a complete overhaul of working processes towards automation and total transparency.
“This has given us an opportunity to really focus on improvements to the business. It was becoming increasingly obvious to us that we were fairly blind when it came to understanding profit. We were waiting until the end of the month to understand if we were profitable or not. Where we were making money was at best blurred. The issues were becoming more embedded as the company grew in size. We couldn’t answer any of the questions about where we were making money or what was good and what was bad. We didn’t completely know from a sales perspective where we were directing our sales teams,” says Jon.
Studio One made the decision to address these issues a couple of years ago with the purchase of EFI’s Pace MIS software but never got down to the full implementation due to a lack of available time and resources.
However, COVID-19 presented the perfect opportunity to focus on integrating the software in-line with its corporate vision of becoming a far more streamlined and profitable business.
“The pandemic has given us a real chance to knuckle down with Pace. We’ll have a much stronger understanding of the business and make the most of all the work that comes in. We’ll be able to understand better what our customer base is, and see what areas of the business are doing well or not. We’ll understand our capacity a lot more, schedule more effectively and run a slicker ship than usual, ultimately to the benefit of all our customers,” says Jon.
The CMYUK EFI Audit
During the Pace implementation, the company underwent a CMYUK EFI audit, which is available for free to all EFI customers.
Amira Bouchiba, CMYUK’s Academy Manager visited the company to extensively evaluate the overall efficiency of its prepress, printing, and finishing processes.
Over a 2-day period, Amira spent time with various staff members across all departments, and made a number of detailed recommendations, taking into account the Pace implementation and overall long-term business vision.
“Amira spent quite a lot of time evaluating the step-by-step processes that we were currently undertaking. She put forward some really good suggestions of how our workflow could change, systems that we could adopt and new software that we could drop in between our current working practices and the EFI Pace implementation. She could see where there were gains to be made. For example, we’ve now adopted Esko i-cut software and Pitstop Pro, none of which we were utilising before,” says Jon.
