April 30, 2012
Moving is one of the top five stressors in people’s lives. Lile North American Moving, the largest moving company in the Northwest, has built its reputation on flexibility, customer service, and reliability in order to help families and businesses relocate as stress-free as possible. In the summer months, Lile’s business increases at least two-fold, and often three-fold. That business boost presents the interesting challenge of finding the right summer employees—and the right staffing agency to source them.
February 8, 2012
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“Comparative advantage means focusing on what you are comparatively good, skilled, or efficient at—and working with others to take care of the rest. If you do so, society as a whole will be better off.”
That is a powerful statement—and it’s analogous to the manufacturing world. It also happens to form the basis of the DePaul Industries’ business model: Our core competency is letting you focus on yours.
So how does a company perform those necessary functions that are outside of their core competency—the reason the business exists in the first place—while protecting its brand and without losing momentum or workflow? That’s where we come in.
Most manufacturing companies become successful from a specialized function, where they excel in efficiency or quality. When they grow, they begin to perform auxiliary functions to support their business out of perceived need, not because it adds any added value to their product. For example, a customer of ours operates a multi-campus manufacturing facility. With a distance of up to two miles between campuses, they are forced to operate a parts transportation program. Clearly, their expertise is in the specialized manufacturing of parts—but the transportation is a necessary function of their business, unrelated to their core competency. With DePaul’s management of the dispatch and transportation process, their production managers are freed to focus on actually managing their specialized production process.
DePaul’s ‘Our Place or Yours’ program is designed to streamline such auxiliary functions in manufacturing companies to maximize comparative advantage. Depending on the business size, product, or operations, it’s flexible enough to accommodate insourcing at a company’s facility, or outsourcing straight to us. Either way, by letting manufacturers focus on manufacturing, we allow them to improve efficiencies in their workflow, while we ensure quality and efficiency by filling in those key gaps in their supply chains. In other words, we’re helping businesses do things right by taking key items off of their to-do list.
Want to take something off of your auxiliary to-do list? Get in touch.
January 6, 2012
To coincide with the start of 2012, our 41st year, DePaul Industries is proud to announce our entrance into the blogosphere.
We’ll be providing news and updates related to our staffing, security, and food packaging & contract manufacturing businesses; as well as our momentum in the social entrepreneurial sector. Keep your eye out for special features such as new job openings, tips on outsourcing for your business, customer testimonials, and news related to employment—
with a special emphasis on employment of people with disabilities.
With our eye toward future expansion and more engaged communication, this blog’s objective will be to communicate the business and social change activities of DePaul Industries and its cohorts.
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