Get a 12-Step Program --Dickeson

This seems so hard to grasp in our industry. Perhaps I'm wrong but, still, I have no doubts at all. It's more important, far more important, to watch the speed of our inventories than it is the speed of our presses. If we're making 2 percent on each sale, then we're making 20 percent on cash working capital if we're turning over our inventories 10 times a year. Is that difficult to understand? Seems simple common sense to me, Goldratt, Ohno, Michael Dell, Wal*Mart and a host of others in different industries. So pick out your most important raw material—paper in commercial printing—and watch the speed of flow of the paper through the process.