Malloy Reaps Benefits From the ‘Oprah Effect’ —Michelson

With a fleet of eight Timsons book presses, in two press types, providing the redundancy needed for rush jobs, Upton says it's a seamless operation for his prepress department to move an incoming order from one press configuration to the other. And, with reprint jobs, he knows there won't be any problems with the files. Malloy has also put a great deal of effort into improving its customized scheduling system, which has been built around the "Theory of Constraints" management philosophy first developed by Eli Goldratt. To ensure that the necessary paper is available whenever needed, Malloy has developed a just-in-time inventory system in partnership with its supplier, xpedx.