KEEP A STEP AHEAD
WORKING ACROSS TIME ZONES

CHALLENGE: To work across time zones and achieve effective communication

If there weren’t enough pressures on your time, when you’re managing production across numerous countries, you also have to cope with conflicting time zones and working hours. If it’s 3pm in Beijing and 3am in New York, conference calls aren’t the best way to communicate, yet managing projects by email introduces another set of challenges.

Extra time needs to be built into schedules to ensure that the right people have access to the right information, when they need it, and have time to respond in the way they wish. Deadlines are easily missed and whole days wasted, waiting for work to be approved or trying to make sense of conflicting emails from colleagues around the world. Monitoring project status and verifying artwork versions is far from easy, even before you start working in different languages. Spreading resources and accessing skills across countries can lead to loss of control and disappointing results.

Solution: ipp gives you the international edge, showing you how to resource and manage globally – taking advantage of cost and time savings

ipp can put you a step ahead of the competition, by giving you the tools to work more effectively, turning time differences to your advantage. joules, our online production management system, keeps you in control with real time updates, 24/7, from anywhere in the world.

Images, logos and artwork templates for ads and literature can be digitally stored with reference numbers, so items and versions can be sourced accurately at any time of day or night. Worldwide access can be controlled by region and language, if required. Global teams can see what materials are available for reprint or adaptation and can source them immediately - eliminating delays, time-consuming searches and duplication.

International ad campaigns can be briefed, amended and approved online, improving turnaround times and allowing you to respond quickly to market opportunities. Through ipp’s global network of established suppliers, materials can be produced exactly where they are required, minimising transportation time between countries. So if you’re based in San Francisco and need marketing materials stored in France to be reproduced in Australia for a conference in Sydney, you can manage every step of the process from your desk in the US – and they’ll be waiting for you when you arrive.