Targets & Conditions
Scorpio are a large company who are obsessed with making profits, they do this by keeping the quality of there work to the highest standards, if they keep the quality of their work to the best of their ability then more company’s will give them work. The more work they get the more money they make. Scorpio employs some of the best Print Finishers in the UK and set their standards high. The main objective of a business is almost certainty to make a profit, The reasons business seek to make a profit is because without profit the company is unable to expand or upgrade any of they equipment/technology and they are unable to do other things they wish to do because they wont have the funds to do anything.
Survival
Scorpio see the best way of surviving is to keep quality of there work to the best and then there is no way of not surviving. They see survival of one of the main objectives of the business, and they are constantly improving the standards of their printing machines to keep the company at the top of its chain.
Standards at Scorpio
Scorpio try’s to increase its sales by keeping their standards of work high and concentrating on providing the best quality print that there is. As long as they have high quality they will never run out of business. In 2001 Scorpio Print Finishing got the print finishers award for having the best quality work in the UK. This proves that they are continuing to keep the standards of their work at a high level.
Services
These are the services Scorpio provide, Perfect Binding, Stitch and Trim, Poly Wrapping, Cutting and Creasing, Guillotining, Folding, Endorse Folding, One Piece Mailing, Gluing, and Pick and Place.
Scorpio provides services to the community as it provides them with newspapers, leaflets, magazines and brochures, books and catalogues. Scorpio is in the secondary industry, which receives lots of different types of paper and card and cuts and finishes them, and then gives you the out come as a book or magazine. These are tagged at a certain price for so many and then are sold in a place like an office. So Scorpio provides the shops with the stock and then is sold or given away to the community. ‘’The Leeds Weekly’’ for example is free and leaflets that you get pushed through the post are free. However Scorpio does not make the leaflets or newspapers for nothing, the Leeds City Council will pay for them or who ever wants the leaflets. A good example of this is the `Safeway` leaflets that are posted nearly every week, you get them posted through your door for nothing, but Safeway will of paid a company such as Scorpio to make the leaflets for them.
They recognise that the service that they provide can very often define the quality of the finished product that their customers provide to their customers. They have in place the most stringent quality assurance and quality control procedures that give our customers the confidence to entrust Scorpio with their commitment. Scorpio offer high quality services to company’s, which use them, last year Scorpio was given the Print Finishers of the year award, this proves the high standard of quality that they provide.
Staff/Machine Operators
There workforce of approximately 200 staff provide the skills and experience to run the vast array of modern equipment 24 hours per day 7 days per week. They employ some of the most experienced operators in the industry supplemented by able Assistants. There is no substitute for well-trained staff and as such have a number of trainees in various areas that they believe will give the continuity of skills and ability for many years to come. Each distinct area of their factory has a departmental head responsible for the productivity and quality of that area. Scorpio are always taking on new recruitments and training them to be machine assistants, this way they are never short of staff and if the company decides to expand and open more factory’s they have the skilled work force to run them.
Scorpio’s manning, planning and estimating department
This department ensures that, wherever possible, the fine balance between machine load and staff requirements is met and of course that we give you the fastest possible response to your valued enquiries. Leo Cleversley and Gary Fagan run this department.
Engineering and Maintenance
Comes under the control of Mick Downs our Engineering Manager of Scorpio.