You might be satisfied with your current label manufacturer: they offer satisfactory pricing and delivery. But are you aware of the extra services some converters offer? If not, you may be missing out on opportunities for your business. Here are 5 services that label manufacturers may offer that go the extra mile for your company:

With technology growing leaps and bounds in today’s age, manufacturing becomes more and more dependent on such technology for everyday tasks. As outlined in IndustryWeek, increased connectivity and the use of big data are driving waves of manufacturing innovation. Printing and converting are no strangers to this trend. But as manufacturing becomes more dependent on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), it also becomes more vulnerable. Old risks such as natural disasters and machinery breakages are now supplemented with new risks from hacking and grid downtime. As we saw just last week, one typo in a service provider like Amazon’s AWS can bring down hundreds of connected services.

Although most paint and hardware retail chains view paint can labels as a commodity item, for large operations that consume millions of thermal labels each month, it is a prime operating expense with sourcing decisions made at the corporate level. With so much at stake, such retailers are searching out reliable label providers that are capable of delivering a quality product consistently at a lower price. For many, this means partnering directly with specialty label converters that can pass on savings due to bulk purchasing power of thermal media direct from its source without voiding OEM warranties.

Selecting a thermal label supplier for your business can be a daunting task. For many companies, the right label converter can mean millions of dollars of annual savings and supply chain efficiencies. When evaluating a new supplier, it is important to ask the following questions:

 OMNI Systems, Inc., the premier manufacturer of thermal labels in North America, announced today that  Dun & Bradstreet Corporation has upgraded its Financial Stress Score to 1611. The score predicts the chance that a business will experience financial distress and is used to forecast a company’s expected performance over the next year. This upgrade ranks OMNI in Class 1 which is the Top 5 Percentile with lowest possible delinquency probability of 0.03%.

OMNI Systems, Inc., the leading provider of thermal labels in North America, is pleased to announce that it has closed 1Q of fiscal year 2015 with record revenues and growth. Founded in 1990, OMNI Systems has seen robust growth throughout its existence, and for the most recent quarter 1Q 2015, sales have grown 15% compared to 1Q 2014.

"We are pleased with the record performance and the positive trends we have experienced through the first quarter of 2015," said David Irwin, OMNI Systems' Vice President of Sales & Marketing. "This marks its 51st consecutive quarter of revenue growth for OMNI and is a testament of a proven business model in action. We are seeing strength in all aspects of our business, from existing product lines at current clients, to new product lines at new clients. We will continue to spread our message of the HIGHEST QUALITY labels at the  lowest prices to anyone that has extensive bar-coding requirements."

OMNI Systems, Inc., the leading manufacturer of thermal labels, announced that its Senior Account Relationship Manager Lila Schervish received a Vendor Award for outstanding service from one of the World's Leading Hospital Systems. The Client has over $5 Billion in Revenues and has more than 35,000 employees world-wide. 

There are many types of direct thermal and thermal transfer label face-stocks in the marketplace, from uncoated to full top-coated. In one of our previous blog posts we talked about how top-coated labels – which is the only face-stock that we use – will lower your total cost of ownership compared to uncoated labels. And while that’s a major reason why you should switch to top-coated labels, there are actually many more benefits you get from making the switch.

If you’re with a company that needs a lot of labels, it can be tempting to order on price alone to save a few bucks. But at OMNI Systems™, we discourage our clients and prospective customers from this approach and instead ask them to take a look at the bigger picture: total cost of ownership.