Picture this: you get ready to leave the house to drive in to work. You approach your vehicle, grab the handle, pull, and—bam—the handle snaps clean off.
What now?
You head over to YouTube and search for a tutorial. Thankfully you find several videos for your make and model at all kinds of lengths and levels of detail.
So here’s the question: do you choose the 30-minute video tutorial? Or do you choose the one that’s just 4 or 5 minutes long?
The answer’s obvious: you’d choose the shorter video. Why? Efficiency.
Operational Efficiency Matters
We all know from experience that operational efficiency matters. That longer video probably has more steps, might require more tools, and definitely includes more non-essential information (like a mechanic pitching a product and wasting your time).
It’s less efficient than a shorter video that delivers the same value: solving a problem in 10 minutes following 5 steps using 2 tools is just obviously better than spending 45 minutes following 15 steps using 7 tools.
Operational efficiency matters in your personal life, like in DIY car repairs. And it matters at work—especially in the print industry.
If you can get something done in 10 minutes while your competitor spends 45, you’re going to outperform that competitor.
In the enterprise, operational efficiency is essential for business success. And the right enterprise workflow management platform is the key that unlocks operational efficiency and excellence.
RICOH Supervisor™ Injects Operational Efficiency into Enterprise Print Workflows
RICOH Supervisor™ is one of the top products offered by RICOH Software. Our enterprise workflow management cloud computing platform provides superior operational efficiency in countless ways.
Today we’re highlighting five of them.
Consider these five areas where RICOH Supervisor™ maximizes efficiency for commercial and in-plant printers.
Enhanced Shop-floor Visibility
Which is more operationally efficient: making decisions on last week’s (or last month’s…or last year’s) data, or basing your operational decisions on real-time data analysis?
When you have access to real-time data—and more than that, to actionable analysis of that data—you can make the right decisions faster. You can better optimize workflows. And you can move with agility when the situation on the ground changes.
Supervisor provides unprecedented visibility into what’s happening on the shop floor. The cloud computing platform delivers insights via web-based dashboards that can track data and goals for printers, operators, and production.
The result? Greater peace of mind that everything is running as it should, plus earlier awareness when something goes wrong.
That’s the power of enhanced shop-floor visibility, made possible by RICOH Supervisor™. Throughout the print process and especially in production and output, Supervisor reveals what’s really happening with unmatched clarity.
Ready to see SaaS-based RICOH Supervisor™ in action? Watch this video overview of our enterprise workflow management solution.
Secure and Scalable Cloud-based Platform
Especially at the enterprise level, scalability is vital. An acquisition or even a strategic pivot could drastically alter your output needs overnight.
Less comprehensive workflow management solutions offer limited potential for automation and may buckle under an increased workload.
Supervisor is a cloud-based platform, which provides near-unlimited scalability, and flexible subscription-based pricing aligns your expenses with your operational needs.
Because RICOH Supervisor operates in the cloud, it enables remote monitoring and real-time data access—from anywhere with an internet connection. Check in on your systems wherever you are, and make adjustments based on the insights our enterprise workflow management platform provides.
Data security is another requirement, especially in regulated fields like finance and health. Supervisor users enjoy secure, encrypted data handling that keeps them compliant and lowers risk.
Comprehensive Data Collection and Analysis
Shop-floor visibility rises and falls on an organization’s ability to collect and analyze data.
Supervisor uses an open-architecture design, which means your business isn’t locked into a preferred list of vendors or a limited selection of devices. Instead, you gain a vendor-neutral solution for data collection: Supervisor works with practically every device from any vendor.
What’s more, the platform’s business intelligence engine creates a comprehensive representation of your organization’s overall performance.
You can collect and analyze data at a granular level, or you can zoom out to understand the big picture.
With this powerful combination of comprehensive data collection and actionable analysis at every level, organizations using RICOH Supervisor™ gain powerful insights that drive better purchasing decisions.
Intuitive and Customizable Dashboards
Better visibility and comprehensive data collection are both essential to improving operational efficiency. But you still need that data to make sense to human decision-makers.
Without effective data visualization, raw numbers may not be enough to create both understanding and buy-in.
Supervisor delivers here as well, with intuitive dashboards that provide instant visibility into operational performance. We know that every print environment is unique, so we’ve made these dashboards fully customizable. We’ll help you configure your dashboards to provide visibility into the right things, and you can continue to customize dashboards over time as your operational needs evolve.
Performance Evaluation
All this data is most valuable when placed into context. That’s where performance evaluation kicks in: Supervisor users can compare actual versus historical throughput data to see how operational efficiency has changed over time.
Supervisor’s performance evaluation functionality is a powerful way both to quantify the wins and to identify areas to target for improvement. And it works at every level of your print operations: compare overall performance or drill down to any level of granularity, even down to individual device statistics.
With detailed insights like these, organizations can identify weak points in their print operations and then optimize the identified processes and assets, leading to better performance and operational excellence.
Maximize Operational Efficiency with RICOH Supervisor™
Efficiency matters in your organization: improving operational efficiency is the most direct way to boost both productivity and profitability.
RICOH Supervisor™ is the total enterprise workflow management solution that delivers unparalleled visibility, secure and scalable cloud-based data collection, powerful analysis with actionable insights, and a deeper understanding of performance trends.
It’s time to explore what implementing Supervisor at your organization would accomplish. Get started today with a free demo.
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Meet the Author
Jason Jones is a Senior Solutions Engineer with over 7 years of experience at Ricoh. In his current role, he is responsible for leading the Workflow Efficiency and Security team for Ricoh's commercial print production. This team focuses on developing and implementing solutions that optimize print production workflows while maintaining the highest levels of security. Jason's educational background includes a degree in Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance with a focus on Network Security, which has provided him with a deep understanding of the technology landscape and the skills necessary to develop effective solutions. He has used his expertise to help Ricoh clients identify potential security risks in their workflows and implement measures to mitigate those risks.
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