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Nigerian Book Fair

Digital Initiatives
The digital department at the Vashi plant gets a whole new look.

Developing Infrastructure The ECM Movement

Repro presented its products and offerings at the Nigerian Book Fair 2011.

TIMES
Volume: 01; Issue: 02
Repro is boosting productivity with the help of the latest technology.

Expanding Efficiency with DSF

The world is advancing digitally, with technological developments occurring at the speed of light. Every organization is now equipped with more than adequate instruments to provide optimum services to their clients. We, at Repro, are also riding the wave of technological progress. DSF is the next step taken by Repro to provide our customers with simple processes that increase efficiency and flexibility and enable them to track the progress of their jobs online.

Ditigal Storefront

A client using DSF will only have to sign in using a unique ID and select the books that they need from a range of their titles. The process is then taken over by Repro to print, warehousing and delivery. This is a unique, efficient and time-saving application that will further boost productivity and offer an unmatched service to our clientele. DSF is already in the process of being implemented. This futuristic step will further enhance our services to all our clients globally.

Advantages
Flexibility for clients Efficiency for employees

Another system we are putting in place is the Enterprise Content Management (ECM). This serves the purpose of facilitating greater efficiencies. ECM is a formalized way of organizing and storing an organizations documents and other content related to the organizations processes. In order to meet growth and future challenges, ECM guarantees future upgrades and

Managing Content Effective Waste with ECM Management

We are implementing this system in order to boost our productivity and enhance the services we provide to our clients.

The ECM Benefits

Centralized control and operational efficiency Easier job splitting, merging and assigning constraints Chat option to ensure quicker response time Dynamic job scheduling and distribution Integration with core business applications Safeguarded IPR Job tracking without data loss ISO 27001 supported

A look at Repros efforts to improve waste disposal

We are constantly striving to reduce our carbon footprint, by utilising eco-friendly resources, recycled paper, undertaking green initiatives and more. Recently, our IT department conducted an analysis on the malfunctioning electronic equipment at Repro. A significant amount of electronic waste, i.e., computers, printers and so on, was generated.

Disposing e-waste

Join the ECM Movement

enhancements. This will not only help utilize resources optimally, it will also help achieve information loss and control on data. ECM will automate the complete process and workflow of the Content Department along with data integrity. It will also prevent misuse of information currently scattered across the organization.

We contacted Eco Recycling Limited, an organization dedicated to recycling electronic wastage in an organized manner. Approximately 149.5 kgs of waste was passed on from Repro to Eco Recycling, which was disposed safely. The portion of E-waste that could not be recycled was sent to an authorised hazardous waste treatment and disposal facility according to the norms of the Pollution Board.

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Training Initiatives at Repro

Numerous corporate training initiatives were conducted over the past quarter at Repro. The IIM-L trainees created a strategic business plan for e-books and also worked on a project aimed at optimizing space utilization and warehouse management. Our internal training expert, Mr. Sunil Krishnan, conducted a session on

Induction programmes

Managing Personal Productivity for 15 employees. The objective of this seminar was to ensure standard work practices across the organization. This session will be conducted for all the executive staff in the organization over 6-8 weeks in order to implement improved work practices that boost productivity.

Repro launched a Small Group Activity for various departments, viz., Web, Sheetfed, Binding, Planning, Procurement, Stores, Human Resources, Logistics, Packing, Content, Engineering, Digital, etc. The purpose of this activity was to help employees at various levels meet at regular intervals and identify, analyze and resolve problems in order to make improvements at work. This activity was aimed at improving productivity, eliminating non-value adding activities and costs, and helping individuals enrich their work lives. It also served to helped employees build on their leadership,

RECRuITMEnT anD GRoup aCTIvITIES

communication, presentation and analytical skills. The first facilitator training on Quality tools and concepts was conducted on Monday, 20th June 2011 at the Mahape plant. We also conducted a campus recruitment at the Mahape facility. The selection of candidates was based on printing aptitude tests, group discussions and personal interviews. The panel of interviewers consisted of Ms. Shraddha Meshram from HR and Mr. Vijay Jadhav, Senior Manager of Manufacturing. Two candidates were also selected from SIES Engineering College, Nerul, during the GET Recruitment 2011-12.

Expanding workforce

Expanding Horizons at Nigeria

April 2011 brought with it the Nigerian Book Fair, a successful event where numerous business groups gathered to spread knowledge and foster mutually beneficial business relations. Repro, too, was a part of this fair, where we displayed our expansive

Initiatives in Infrastructure

nigerian Book Fair

solutions in content, print and fulfillment. Members of our Senior Management attended the fair and interacted with various existing as well as potential clients from Africa and around the world. We have been working with various clients from the African continent for projects like school textbooks, childrens books, government contracts, and more. We also sponsored an international conference at the fair Technology and the future of the book: New Digital Publishing for Africa where the speaker, Mr. Robert Baensch, who provided insightful details in the changing trends of technology. Various notable dignitaries and publishers attended the conference, Yinka Lawal Solarin, (former chairman of the Nigerian Book Fair Trust), Yemi Ogunbiyi (Tanus Communications) and Oye IbidapoObe (former vice chancellor of the University of Lagos) among them.

Besides print, we also offer content solutions to our clients, and we are fully equipped with the latest machines to offer the same. Along with our regular line up of Web Offset printing machines and Digital printing machines, we have also acquired new printing and finishing machines. The Manugraph Web

new Machines

Offset and the Kolbus Perfect Binder have been installed at out Surat facility to enhance productivity and reduce processing time. We are strategically expanding our reach and constantly upgrading our machines and softwares in order to offer state-of-the-art services to all our clients.

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2011 started with a positive note for Digital business in many aspects production improvements, new vibrant look and feel to the department, best practice visits (USA), and strategic initiatives with key vendors. From a production perspective, we have minimized all WIP within the entire production

DEvElopInG DIGITal opERaTIonS

Digital Initatives

process by printing only what we can bind. In a nutshell, we are adopting a continuous flow process where we bind a book as soon as its printed. This has helped immensely to improve on-time delivery from 20% to 88% (average for 2010 fiscal year). The future of digital publication printing is pointing towards ink jet technology. Mr. Ani Khandekar (GM Digital Operations) visited USA to meet a premier vendor

for evaluating their equipment by operating detailed trials using different paper types. He also visited 3 printers currently using this technology to witness the practical application on an actual shop floor. A subsequent visit in May 2011 was planned to visit a different vendor and assess their platforms. We are also in talks with existing vendors to evaluate their latest toner based technology that can allow printing on lighter papers with good half-tone images. Adding such capability will reduce dependency on particular equipments. In addition to the above process fundamentals, we have also undertaken a process to enhance the look of POD department. The department is being renovated into a visual factory with new colors, informative signs and posters, notice boards demonstrating production and quality numbers.

the unit of poD is well laid out in a separate section and the overall speed that each of these processes goes is fairly impressive.

Clients Speak

Your facility here in surat is fantastic. in fact, i feel more comfortable doing business with RepRo.

- ATEM Emmanuel NDEISIEH, Cosmos Educational Press Ltd. - R. H. Sharma, Jaico Publishing

Blooper Corner
Murphys Laws of computers
For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction. To err is human . . . to blame your computer for your errors is downright natural.
The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you least expect to find it.

He who laughs last probably made a back-up.

If at first you do not succeed, blame your computer.
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