How to Offset Postage and Paper Increases

You can lose every penny you save by having excess inventory. If you don’t manage both the front and back end of paper consumption, you’ll lose your shirt. You’ve got to do both. …

We buy well over 100,000 tons of paper a year, and even though we’ve saved money buying direct, one good hiccup on the inventory side where we don’t utilize some leftover stock, and we lose that savings pretty quickly.