Make Sure You Know Better --Dickeson

Searching for the Truth

He didn't learn the truth from most printing consultants or from all of the printing equipment salesmen. The plain fact is that these guys really don't know any better. Maybe they really know the truth, but it's not in their selfish interest to say so.

The bean counters, the accountants at printing companies, know the facts. They've tried, they're trying, to get us to learn the truth about our "cost" systems. Trouble is, they're not the ones out on the manufacturing floor—not out in the trenches—where decisions are being made every minute and every hour. They know that efficiency of operation never reduced a true cost of the company, never increased profitability a nickel! But still they support cost accounting systems that deceive us, the guys on the floor and, often, top management.