You print for other businesses, inside their promised date, on their freight. Throughput and true cost are the whole game.
Deliveries scanned in, not counted by hand.
One art number runs across every line it lands on.
The latest it can start and still ship on time.
Hours land on the art number at each person’s rate.
One person hand-counting cartons is $25.48 an hour — skilled labour against a $15 minimum — which is $53,000 a year before payroll tax. Contract Standard is $17,990. Scan the supplier's manifest instead, and a courier label finds its own job and the shelf it went on.
Art is on file, garments are marked per colourway, and the stitch file draws itself. The staff hours that went into drawing the same thing again go back into the press.
You sit inside somebody else's promise. Every job carries the last day its art number can go on the press and still ship on time, counted back through the days in transit — so a job that will be late stops looking like one that will not.
Once the hours sit on the art number at each person's own rate, the shop learns which clients cost it money and which decoration method has been carrying another for years.
Orders land on your floor paid and priced.
Send your clients to KitAlly through your link. They get a lower setup price, and their store orders come straight to you.