THE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT.

Whether you're a marketing organization creating a direct mail pack, a product development group creating packaging for a new product, or a customer service team designing monthly customer statements, the product development life cycle is a large, intricately connected system of companies, people, and relationships. All working together toward one common goal: creating the best products at the lowest price.

We don't see this process as being supported by faceless vendors, blindly responding to reverse auctions and RFP's. We see this as a living, breathing organism that has complex inter-connectivity. This is, in fact, an Ecosystem, and at LogicSource we understand and appreciate every aspect of it. From idea to execution –from creative to distribution– we know how each element of the end-to-end marketing/ merchandizing/ product development /customer service supply chain works, and how they interact with each other. We nurture strategic partnerships with our suppliers throughout the entire product life cycle to deliver maximum value to our clients, and sustained business to our suppliers.

We understand intimately how the vendor community works. We implement proprietary, industry leading forecasting and planning tools to support long term strategic planning. This allows vendors to produce work that is best suited to their manufacturing capabilities, while maximizing their capacity, improving order lead times, and smoothing out seasonality. Our growing client base offers vendors the potential for an ever-increasing client pool, and we can build attractive product baskets across multiple spend categories. This provides much-needed stability, and allows vendors to make continuous improvements to their technologies and processes. We are constantly looking for new ways to partner with vendors in order to drive continuous innovation into the Ecosystem, and the larger marketplace.

At LogicSource our core focus is to save our clients money. That can only be done by understanding and embracing the product life cycle for what it really is: a complex, inter-connected Ecosystem.

FROM CULT BELIEF, TO TREND, TO TSUNAMI: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION IS HERE.
WHAT'S YOUR PLAN?

At LogicSource we are dedicated to environmental leadership.

Our team has not only managed and implemented successful environmentally sound print procurement processes for Fortune 1000 firms, we championed and pioneered those initiatives as well. We innately understand the pressing environmental issues relevant to this space, and the need to proactively address them, and we find ways to share that knowledge with our partners, clients and vendors. Our environmental solutions are innovative and flexible, while meeting or exceeding our client's business needs.

Whether it's embracing your plan, or building one with you, we believe long-term, measurable cost savings and environmental sustainability are not mutually exclusive goals.

THE RISE OF THE SAVINGS CZAR.

In 2010 US companies will spend up to $155bn in print - related services with over 43,000 printers. Globally, companies spend upwards of $550bn in print - related services. The primary driver for these expenditures is to attract and retain customers. Whether it's a bank, airline, utility, or consumer package goods firm; these companies use printed materials as their primary means of communication.

While companies are actively seeking ways to streamline their correspondence and move to environmentally friendly means of communication, most lack the internal resources or knowledge to drive down the cost of their printed materials. Further, their primary partners in driving down the cost of print today are the printers themselves. However, asset-laden printers are often challenged to help their clients stop their reliance on print, maximize their investment in their physical channels, or migrate to alternate channels of communication.

Enter the current global economic situation: The global economy is presently facing a down turn that hasn't been experienced since the Great Depression. Corporations across every industry are being forced to dramatically reduce their costs of operations across every category and function of their respective businesses.

Chief Financial Officers of large corporations are inundated. As such, we are seeing the role of "Chief Procurement Officer", "Savings Czar", and 
"Profit Improvement" not only becoming a staple of a CFO's organization, but a very powerful one at that.

Regardless of a corporation's financial stability, it is critical that they look at every opportunity to streamline operations. Depending on the health of a business, the reasons for the focus on cost containment can vary from financial need to client and investor perception. The individuals holding the roles outlined above are tasked with looking across their enterprises to find opportunities to reduce cost.

The science is clear: taking cost out of the business without negatively affecting the ability to service existing customers, is an art.

Given the general contraction of the economy, many corporations have already cut back substantially on their expenditures in these categories. In addition, many procurement and sourcing groups have been forced to down - size the teams dedicated to driving efficiencies in these commodities, resulting in a sheer lack of horsepower to effectively source. The result is counter-intuitive. Companies now have less spend in the market and fewer employees aggressively sourcing it; therefore they have less leverage with their suppliers. In many cases, the suppliers struggle to keep clients at their 2007 and 2008 rates because they no longer consume anywhere near the volume of work they did in the past.

The result: An understaffed procurement and sourcing team, trading on past volumes and spend, relying heavily on their suppliers for pricing of print and related services.

To this end, LogicSource has been created with a single focus: to build a print utility that combines the spend leverage of multiple clients across a variety of commodities and industries to dramatically reduce costs while improving our client's ability to attract and retain their most important asset – their customers.

ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL, IT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO PRICE. RARELY ARE ALL THINGS EQUAL.

The most over looked criterium in any sustainable Business Process Management relationship is culture. When choosing a long-term partner, clients often make the mistake of focusing exclusively on the tangibles when often it is the intangibles that will ultimately govern success.

Cultural Alignment is the cornerstone of the intangibles. Our most effective relationships with our clients stem from long term commitments. We work day in day out, embedded in our clients' operations as integral members of their teams, sitting next to them in their buildings. To build and foster a productive partnership, we have to be culturally compatible.

At LogicSource the most common, and rewarding feedback we receive from our client executives is that our relationship works because "they get us."