Technology
In business, the ability to track critical communications is essential. It’s part of many workflows, both digital and physical. In the physical realm, mail tracking is crucial to ensuring you meet compliance requirements regarding time-sensitive mailings. It can be cumbersome and hard to manage if you’re doing it internally, but there are alternatives that deliver [...]
Does your business produce a high volume of sensitive mailings you need to track? If so, you should know some crucial things about USPS mail tracking and transactional mail. Effective mail and packages tracking supports compliance around these letters that must arrive within a specific timeframe. If you’re managing this internally, it can be extremely [...]
Lean Manufacturing creates efficiency by eliminating waste and optimizing processes. Its practices and principles have become a mainstay for manufacturers across the industry. While you may be aware of Lean, you might wonder why it’s important in transactional print and mail. We’ll explain what it is and why it’s critical for these communication types. [...]
How much does quality and the elimination of waste matter in producing transactional mail? The answer—a lot. Transactional print and mail focuses on mission-critical communications, typically bound by compliance regulations. To live inside such a rigid framework, print and mail providers need to employ numerous methods and procedures. Six Sigma is a quality management [...]
When quality and accuracy matter, companies turn to methodologies to improve on both these goals. As a transactional print and mail company, we are process-oriented, and each process must be consistent. Otherwise, we couldn’t deliver services that meet compliance regulations. We’ve adopted both Six Sigma printing and Lean printing principles. While they are similar, they [...]
Ensuring the quality of any product requires rigorous processes that are repeatable to maintain consistency and accuracy. That’s especially true for transactional print and mail. So, how do you operationalize this kind of quality? Lean Manufacturing plays a crucial role in the induction of standard works. So, what are they and how do they contribute [...]
Communications from the insurance industry are often time-sensitive and require confirmation of receipt. In such a highly regulated vertical, you can’t rely on an assumption of delivery. That’s why mail delivery verification is so crucial for insurance companies. However, it’s tricky and complex with such a high volume of documents like invoices, clams, ID [...]
Errors happen. Nothing is completely perfect all the time. But, when it comes to compliance, there’s little room for error. In customer communications, containing confidential customer data, classified as PII (personally identifiable information), compliance needs to be as close 100% as possible. Many vendors in the customer communication industry promote a 99.6% accuracy rate, [...]
Ft. Mill, SC., October 28, 2019. PCI Group, Canon Solutions America and BlueCrest, industry leaders in advanced print and mail technologies, hosted an open house at PCI’s Dallas, TX facility on Thursday evening, October 24, 2019. The event was called the “Open Power House”, with the theme of “Moving Your Communications Forward by the [...]
Learn About Why It’s Risky to Maintain Status Quo and How to Improve ItWhile the world is certainly shifting toward digital communications for customers, there are still millions of printed communications mailed daily. If your business is in a regulated industry, you may still mail many important customer communications including invoices, statements, notices, and promotions. [...]
