RR Donnelley -- Giant Transformation

"The financial printing markets are down more than 50 percent from where they were two years ago," Davis notes. "Fifty percent is substantial, and it has put a strain on our overall performance."

RR Donnelley is in the final year of an $80 million investment initiative designed to implement a standardized technology and metric platform across all of its commercial printing plants. As more customers gravitate toward the just-in-time manufacturing model, the need for a planning tool was essential, according to Haves McNeal, senior vice president of optimization for RR Donnelley. The tool is part of the company's business process redesign (BPR) and will reportedly allow the printer to fully maximize open capacity, in real time, across the board.