Company highlights
award-winning workflow solutions delivering cost efficiencies and addressing
pain points for mailers of all sizes
BOULDER, Colo-
March 13, 2013 – Ricoh Production Print
Solutions (Ricoh), a leading provider of digital output solutions, today announced its line up for 2013 National Postal Forum
(NPF), March 17-20 in San Francisco, CA. Attendees who visit
Ricoh booth #836 can experience various mailroom solutions from the
award-winning Ricoh
ProcessDirector portfolio that are enabling
customers to see cost-savings, increased efficiencies and compliance-driven output.
Mailers who
handle critical communications are increasingly the subject of regulation,
requiring end-to-end document tracking. But too often they are left without a
complete solution, having to mix and match options from various vendors which
can often be expensive and complicated. At NPF, Ricoh will address their needs
with a complete, end-to-end portfolio that provides mailers with cost-effective
and streamlined solutions.
Ricoh will
conduct live demonstrations at NPF of service offerings that enable small,
medium and large mailers to increase the integrity of each mail piece while
delivering compliance-driven output. With these proven capabilities to
improve address quality, sortation and integrity, mailers can feel more
confident that their output will be delivered accurately and in a timely
manner.
A centrepiece of
the live demonstrations will be Mail
Insight, an extended feature of Ricoh ProcessDirector workflow
software which allows mailers to interface with the
United States Postal Service (USPS) system and was recently installed at Los
Angeles Department of Water and Power, the nation’s largest municipal utility.
Mail Insight leverages
Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMb) tracing, a USPS
requirement to enable companies to receive status of a mail piece as it is
processed by the USPS, tracking important information for vital decision
making.
“Considering
that this is such a critical a time for the postal industry, we’ve come to NPF
with solutions that can help mailers of all sizes realize operational cost
savings while increasing their efficiency,” said Bill Shaffer, manager,
worldwide software alliances for Ricoh. “Our portfolio – including
cloud-based, scalable solutions – can be customized for mailers of all sizes.
We look forward to showcasing these solutions, which combine more than 50 years
of enterprise innovation and experience with production printing and workflow,
in highly complex and multifaceted print environments.”
At Ricoh booth
836 attendees will be able to see:
Ricoh
ADF Essentials – available starting today via
the cloud or as an on-premise offering, this enables mailers to streamline
print operations and maintain high integration environments while implementing
automated postal processing. ADF Essentials combines both the postal mail
optimization and workflow features to help customers cost-effectively manage
their mailrooms. Using the company’s industry-leading ADF capabilities via
Ricoh ProcessDirector, and the full range of postal optimization components,
the offering provides a complete end-to-end solution.
At NPF, Ricoh
will showcase ADF Essentials as a cloud-based offering. This offers small
to mid-sized mailers the opportunity to operate workflow in a secure
environment as a Software as a Service (SaaS), giving them access to the same
proven solutions as companies with larger budgets.
Ricoh
ProcessDirector – Ricoh will demonstrate
advanced postal optimization functions built on the award-winning Ricoh
ProcessDirector infrastructure. These features enable customers to improve
tracking and reconciliation, maintain confidentiality and optimize the entire
print-to-mail process and much more.
Ricoh’s Office
On-Ramp – this offering connects the enterprise’s
network of one-off, ad hoc document production with the enterprise’s print
production operation. With Ricoh’s Office On-Ramp, the thousands of customer
communication documents produced manually are now routed electronically to the
ADF driven by Ricoh ProcessDirector. Upon arrival, ADF ensures that these
documents can be pooled, updated, corrected, commingled, postal sorted and
efficiently printed. Once through the printing and mail processes, the
documents can also flow to existing archives for retention, downstream access
or audit function. For large enterprises, this offering helps lower print and
postal costs, reduce operational costs, ensure consistent and compliant
communications, and leverage existing production print facilities.
In addition to
the demos at the booth, Ricoh executives will also be leading two speaking sessions
at NPF: “Analytics: The Right Message to the Right Customer,” and “IMb: Getting
to IMb and Confirmed Delivery.” And for attendees looking to learn more, Ricoh
business process solution experts will be available for custom consultation
each day.
For more
information about Ricoh at NPF, please contact Tracey Sheehy at tsheehy@breakawaycom.com.