The Landscape:

Are customers asking for more jobs in less time? Have you added to your service offerings, such as providing marketing services, in order to stay competitive? These are transitions we see with our customers, and each results in more equipment, more processes, and very different workflows. You are expected to provide diverse and comprehensive campaigns that integrate an ever-changing landscape of service offerings. Which, ultimately, affects business processes from estimation through to reporting.

Challenges

Islands of Automation: Your customers expect answers quickly, and simply can’t wait for your Sales Rep to check in with her CSR. Unfortunately, in many cases, disparate systems that don’t talk to each other can slow down communication, and your sales team can lose momentum on a key marketing campaign.

More Offerings: The days of having just one or two service offerings are over. You are expected to provide a dynamic, and ever-growing set of solutions, including marketing and creative services, large format, kitting, mailing, and more. Now, more than ever, it is about offering the “one stop shop” experience – making that level of convenience the ultimate goal.

Multiple Lines of Business: When building multi-channel marketing campaigns, providing quotes to a customer that encompasses multiple lines of business, such as print, mail, data, and fulfillment is difficult when using legacy MIS systems designed for only offset jobs.

AVANTI Solutions

Getting More Done: From Job Tracking to Reporting, Avanti Slingshot helps you manage a more complex offering. Regular reports help you keep your customers in the loop – after all, a more informed customer is a happier customer. Avanti Slingshot can completely model your print-shop regardless of the types of presses, prepress software or marketing activities you offer as value-added services.

End-to-End Solutions: In today’s world of Print-on-Demand and “one stop shop” expectations, business is won and lost based on your ability to exceed customer satisfaction. Avanti Slingshot’s Touchless Workflow enables printers to take on a larger variety of jobs, with fewer resources, while maintaining, and more importantly improving, profitability.

One Source for All Your Information: A core benefit of Avanti Slingshot is the ability to have all your “Islands of Automation” communicate with each other. Having everything in one place, managed by one print MIS platform, provides you with all the information you need at your fingertips, from estimating to job costing to reporting.Instead of forcing your print production environment to adapt to the MIS software, Avanti’s Slingshot offers you a fully integrated and modular production platform that can be tailored to your production workflow. Avanti Slingshot has over 20 modules and connectivity points to manage your business in your offset/digital print shop and beyond. Learn more in our modules section or contact us for a demonstration.

Winners in this more complex world need sophisticated systems that can handle the task. We help you bring the latest innovations and services to your customers first. Avanti Slingshot has over 20 modules and connectivity points to manage the marketing side of your business, and much more. Learn more in our modules section or contact us for a demonstration.