Michael Williams, Associate Professor of Graphic Arts at College of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri, is now utilizing System100 as a teaching tool for his Printing Production Management class.  Philip Beyer has been invited to share his business management insights with the students throughout the semester. Our staff will be training students to maximize the use of System100 for systemizing the College’s print facility.

Printing Impressions' PI-World online magazine recently welcomed Philip Beyer as a regular contributor to their blogs, beginning in June, 2011. 

Beyer is now also a regular blog contributor to the PIAS Online E-News. Thanks to PIAS for publishing articles by Philip Beyer over the years in PrintSouth, the magazine distributed by PIAS (Printing Industries of America southeast regional affiliate).
 

Philip Beyer and wife Susan were recently invited to visit The Ovid Bell Press in Fulton, Missouri, to survey the client-company’s progress with implementation of various facets of System100™ and what Beyer calls the 100% System of Cleanliness (5-S).  Since 1927, OBP has specialized in Web printing (magazines, books and other publications).

During the Beyer’s visit, CEO John Bell (grandson of founder, Ovid Bell) shared some of the fascinating history of the 84-year-old family business, and OBP President Chris Gilman, and Nancy Berrey, Production Analyst and System100 facilitator for OBP, led an impressive tour of the 75,000 square foot facility.  Over the next three days, Beyer was able to visit with many of the congenial 120-member team during back-to-back meetings with management and select staff, where ideas and recommendations flowed freely.  The visit proved beneficial, not only to OBP, but also to System100™ as new enhancements to the software have been made that are sure to benefit all users.
 
Before leaving Fulton, the Beyer's were surprised to discover and visit the Winston Churchill Memorial and Museum near Westminster College there, where England's former Prime Minister delivered his landmark "Iron Curtain" speech, March 5, 1946. The state-of-the-art, interactive museum is filled with a wealth of historical information, and occupies the lower level of an ancient stone church that had been bombed out in England during WW2, and later shipped at the request of Churchill's niece to Fulton, where it was re-assembled stone-by-stone. An actual twenty-foot section of the collapsed Berlin wall stands in front of the museum near a large bronze statue of Churchill.  In more recent years, Westminster College has hosted several other notable speakers, including former President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Philip Beyer is most excited about the progress of Ovid Bell Press and their implementation of System100™ that is helping to make their operation increasingly more efficient in these times.  "OBP is already way ahead of most printing companies for bringing order to all areas of their operation," Philip Beyer commented. The Beyer’s will not forget their visit to Fulton, Missouri!

We welcome Northern Illinois University to our family of subscribers to the System100 solution for bringing sustainable order to their Document Services and other strategic departments of NIU at Dekalb, Illinois.

 

System100™ has proved “the perfect solution” for ServiceMasters of Nashville exec Kent Riddle, owner/president of one of 4,500 ServiceMaster franchises around the world, specializing in cleaning and disaster restoration. Several months ago, visiting Philip Beyer's software company, Ebiz Products (distributor of System100™ business process management solution), Riddle decided to take his own company's business systems to the "next level” to better meet his customers’ needs. Beyer, who now offers onsite consultation for System100™ implementation, has spent hundreds of hours over the past few months working hands-on with Riddle at his facility, to expedite installation.

“Kent Riddle is a smart businessman who sees the importance of lean processes for a company, especially in these times,” says Beyer. “There are thousands of necessary details in disaster restoration work, and seeing Kent’s growing excitement over the changes in his company’s organization just proves the value of these systems to get jobs done with accuracy, while keeping costs down.”

Philip Beyer, owner/president of Beyer Printing Inc., and Chuck Nicklas, owner/president of H & E Printing, joined forces recently in an effort to move their companies forward in today’s challenging economy. Beyer and Nicklas, long-time friends and business colleagues, had discussed the possible co-op several times over the past two years, and sealed the deal over an old-fashioned handshake.  

Since 1987, H&E Printing has maintained a strong reputation for serving the Nashville community and beyond with high quality, commercial sheet-fed printing, honesty and integrity—gaining the respect of many industry leaders, including Philip Beyer, who measures his own success by like standards since opening his own business in 1988.  “Joining forces with H&E is a good marriage of like minds,” says Beyer.  “Both of our companies strive for excellence, and we’re encouraged about the future for all of us!”      

Beyer Printing, Inc. and H&E Printing—still operating as separate businesses—now share the same address at 1855 Air Lane Drive, Nashville, TN 37210.  For more information, contact Susan Beyer, Beyer Printing, Inc. (615) 391-3303, or Michele Nicklas of H&E Printing at (615) 256-8398

Philip and Susan Beyer visited System100 client, Baton Rouge Press, during their recent business trip to Texas and Louisiana in early June. Meeting with owner/president Pat Prather and Robin Crumpler, BRP's general manager, for several hours, the Beyer's were impressed and encouraged about the direction Baton Rouge Press is taking with systemization. Both Pat and Robin have championed System100 software as "the right solution" for the company, and invited Philip to spend a week this summer working with BRP staff to further integrate System100 software with their MIS program and other systems.   

Philip Beyer, developer of System100 software, spoke on continual improvement and the power of systemization to more than ninety of the ICED (International Center for Entrepreneurial Development) leadership, franchise owners and vendors during the ICED 2010 Executive Conference, held June 3-5, 2010 at the Northwest Forest Conference Center in Cypress (Houston), Texas. Also attending the 3-day event were System100 clients, Henry & Fay Golczynski, owners of Franklin's Printing in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; and Danny Oblad, owner of Kwik Kopy in Salt Lake City, Utah. Other speakers for the conference included Jeff Hayzlett, author and Chief Marketing Officer for Eastman Kodak.  ICED has a proud tradition and long history of creating franchising successes. Founder of Kwik Kopy Printing in the late 1960s—ICED has experienced ongoing growth through expansion into other franchise industries.

On May Day, 2010, the rains came to Nashville.  And, as if a giant hand was emptying the contents of an enormous pitcher dipped from the not-yet-oily Gulf, Music City and much of Middle Tennessee watched as all chaos broke loose. The massive weather system parked over the area in what at least one news anchor called a “perfect storm”—one system pressing against another, like two opposing fists, stalling the heavy rains and drenching residents in a “500-year flood.”

 

With the exception of an F-3 tornado, sporting 200 mph winds that ravaged Greater Nashville in April of 1998, most people think of Middle Tennessee as the last place to look for a natural disaster. Still, the May first rains of 2010 caused rivers, streams and ponds to rise to dangerous levels, spilling over their banks into the most unexpected places. After only two days, homes generally thought to be far from a flood plain stood in water to their roof lines. Interstate highways became waterways where cars, trucks and even a mobile home floated dangerously among debris and other half-sunken vehicles.

 

Emergency workers, many in borrowed row boats, made their way past mostly submerged street signs to rescue in-city residents and workers. Hundreds were air-lifted to safety. Sadly, more than thirty people lost their lives in the rush of water, and hundreds of others lost their homes. 

 

Business came to a standstill that first week in May, as if the already faltering economy wasn’t enough! Only a few miles away from our offices, furniture and equipment floated freely inside Music City’s famed Grand Ole Opry House. And the substantial operations of the also grand, 3200-room Gaylord-Opryland Hotel came to a halt, as the normally serene waters of the Cumberland River caused nearly 2,000 hotel guests and personnel to abandon the flooding complex.

 

Many businesses stopped doing business altogether, that May Day. Our business, sitting on higher ground, was one of the “lucky” ones!

 

On a clear day, nearly eighteen years ago, I experienced a flood in my own company that nearly caused me to shut down operations permanently. I was only in my fifth year as an owner of a small printing company. More and more the business had become steeped in disorder, high waste ratios, upset customers, unmet due dates, lost revenue—one big mess! The thought of one more day of it became intolerable. Was every business so inundated by a tsunami of disorder as mine was? 

 

That's when I determined to find a way out of all that chaos and bring sustainable order to my business. I’m happy to say, we did that!

 

Like an unexpected flood in what's thought to be a “safe” place, life can change in a heart beat. Natural disasters aside—without order, your once-promising business can become your worst, most stressful and expensive nightmare. The important thing is to recognize the signs that can lead to disaster in your business, so when the waters of chaos begin to rise to unsafe levels, you can be prepared. Better yet—to have great systems in place that are proactive against unsafe levels!

 

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those Nashville business owners and residents that suffered loss in the recent flooding. I’m confident that our resilient community will come back more resolute than ever to live well and do better business—after all, we’re Nashville!

NASHVILLE, TN [May, 2010]

In April, 2010, Vanderbilt University marketing students Igor Ges, Stephen Passiak and Chris Montes-Sabino collaborated with Philip Beyer, founder/president of Ebiz Products LLC and Beyer Printing Inc. in Nashville, on a six-week marketing project for their final semester grade. Students were asked to determine the relevance of Beyer's System100™ software for various types of businesses, and to recommend ways to market the product.  Employing extensive research, the students reviewed the product with regard to viability, ease of application, low cost and risk, environmental factors, and comparative software applications. Ultimately, the students identified System100™ as * "Totally unique…nothing to compare with it…a great product that represents a new force in its market, pushing the envelope of innovation in business process management, and providing its customers with an effective way to manage their organizations.” 

 

“I’m thankful for the opportunity to meet and work with these special young men—for their insights and, by their example, for encouraging me about our future business leaders!"  ...Philip Beyer. 

* The findings of the above named students does not in any way serve as an endorsement of the System100 product by Vanderbilt University or any others.