By Mark Brousseau
Potential recession aside, exhibitors always are on the lookout for ways to get more bang out of their trade show buck. One strategy may be to minimize costs and avoid unnecessary charges on their material-handling bill. In the February issue of Exhibitor Magazine, exhibit-management consultant Candy Adams provides the following six ways to save money on material handling:
Stop shipping unnecessary items. Think: massive quantities of literature.
Consolidate small shipments. General services contractors typically charge exhibitors a weight minimum for each shipment they handle, which can add up.
Choose your shipping method carefully. Palletizing your pad-wrapped pieces can mean significant savings, for example.
Meet the inbound target dates and times. If your carrier misses the targeted window of time for its truck to arrive in the marshalling yard to unload your freight, you’ll be saddled with additional material-handling surcharges or penalties, Adams notes.
Verify weight slips. Adams recommends stopping at the service desk the day after your freight arrives on site and ask to see your inbound certified weight slips.
Audit your material-handling invoice. Review every line item of your general services contractor’s invoice to make sure your have been billed correctly.
Do you have any tips to pass along? E-mail me at m_brousseau@msn.com.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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Compliance Drives Automation
By Mark Brousseau
Many document automation vendors will tell you that compliance and audit issues are a major part of the business case for unstructured documents solutions, and the results of a recent Question of the Week on the TAWPI Web site confirm it.
Forty-nine percent of respondents to the online survey said that compliance and audit issues are playing a “very big” role in their need for unstructured documents solutions, while another 29 percent of respondents said compliance and audit issues were a “somewhat big” component. This means that compliance and audit issues were a significant factor in the need for unstructured documents solutions at 78 percent of the organizations that responded.
Just 18 percent of respondents said compliance and audit issues were a “somewhat small” issue in their need for unstructured documents solutions, while only 4 percent said they were a “very small” factor.
What is the story at your organization? E-mail me at m_brousseau@msn.com.
Many document automation vendors will tell you that compliance and audit issues are a major part of the business case for unstructured documents solutions, and the results of a recent Question of the Week on the TAWPI Web site confirm it.
Forty-nine percent of respondents to the online survey said that compliance and audit issues are playing a “very big” role in their need for unstructured documents solutions, while another 29 percent of respondents said compliance and audit issues were a “somewhat big” component. This means that compliance and audit issues were a significant factor in the need for unstructured documents solutions at 78 percent of the organizations that responded.
Just 18 percent of respondents said compliance and audit issues were a “somewhat small” issue in their need for unstructured documents solutions, while only 4 percent said they were a “very small” factor.
What is the story at your organization? E-mail me at m_brousseau@msn.com.
Firms Split on RDC Payback
By Mark Brousseau
Despite all the hoopla over remote deposit capture (RDC), it might surprise you to learn that just over half of the respondents to a recent Question of the Week on the TAWPI Web site said that their organization is actually benefiting from the technology.
Fifty-two percent of respondents (which included both corporate depositors and financial institutions) to the online survey said their organization was benefiting from RDC, while 45 percent of respondents said their organization wasn’t. Two percent of respondents said they didn’t know.
What has been your organization’s experience? E-mail me at m_brousseau@msn.com.
Despite all the hoopla over remote deposit capture (RDC), it might surprise you to learn that just over half of the respondents to a recent Question of the Week on the TAWPI Web site said that their organization is actually benefiting from the technology.
Fifty-two percent of respondents (which included both corporate depositors and financial institutions) to the online survey said their organization was benefiting from RDC, while 45 percent of respondents said their organization wasn’t. Two percent of respondents said they didn’t know.
What has been your organization’s experience? E-mail me at m_brousseau@msn.com.
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