With the increasing recession worldwide, the Print Industry is also not left untouched. Printers in the U.S.A are currently facing two major challenges – dealing with the Labor shortage and finding the right people to manage their workloads.

“According to the U.S. Department of Labor, approximately 4.3 million people left their jobs in August 2021.”

To deal with the Labor Shortage and workload challenges, companies came up with an “adding more people” solution, not knowing that this will lead to confusing processes and increased manual work in the workflows. Also, it affected quality control and order management because of workflow efficiencies.

When companies start throwing more labor for similar tasks, it causes more chances of errors, more variations, overdue timelines, more inconsistency, and ultimately more management in the business. This also makes it difficult for you to make any changes in the process or tasks because change management is more difficult with a large team than with a smaller team.

The question that arises here is what is the solution if not adding more people? The answer is Software and Automation.

In your business, there are “tons” of work that require different skills and are applicable to be automated or solved programmatically. Giving your existing team tools that increase their productivity gradually can help you begin to think about scaling. Now, you need to figure out how you can implement software to automate your business workflow.

The foundation of workflow automation is the idea that each stage in a printing job can be digitally connected to other stages, resulting in a series of pre-programmed events that keep the job moving forward steadily towards completion. This sequence of activities should ideally begin with the receipt of the order and end with the delivery of the finished product, producing streams of data that track the work, keep tabs on its expenses, and provide insights into how to produce future projects even more effectively.

The workflow automation and fewer people working on more tasks will result in increased operational productivity, efficiency, and accuracy.

So, when you understand that the labor issues are not going too soon, you can start planning the automation and optimization to scale your challenges. No wonder an automated workflow requires more time to set up, but it pays itself tenfold because you save time each time it is used. The return on investment is a generous gift.

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