Fenton Insights from In-plant Print Center Insourcing Interviews

As I write this blog, I am completing a series of interviews with in-plants offering services to outside companies (insourcing) for an upcoming article in In-Plant Graphics Magazine (IPG).

I vividly remember the first time I heard the term insourcing, because I struggled to figure out what it meant. I found it counter intuitive until someone explained to me that insourcing was the opposite of outsourcing.

In an IPG article entitled “The Insourcing Opportunity” published in March 2008, editor Bob Neubauer talked about the steady increase of in-plants offering insourcing services since 2004.

In this article, Neubauer reported in-plants insource approximately 5% to 10% of their work. The latest IPG survey found that approximately two out of three in-plants insource an average about 13% of their revenue from insourcing.


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