LabelDrive: The Procurement Model for the Next Decade
Transform your label procurement process with LabelDrive's on-demand Labels-as-a-Service program—a scalable, flexible, and predictable model that cuts costs by 55%, waste by 60%, and procurement time by 80%.
Key Features:
- On-Demand|48-Hour Turnaround—just In time.
- No MOQs—order only what you need.
- Flat Pricing—your best volume price, for any volume.
- Procurement Dashboard—streamlines procurement.
Are you a Private Label Manufacturer?
Onboard your client portfolio to extend these benefits with LabelDrive PLUS: Reduces costs Real-time order visibility across your client portfolio Generates new revenue Agile production Less waste All while giving them access to on-demand ordering, no MOQs, and lower pricing. Click here to learn more about LabelDrive PLUS
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by Mark Pohlkamp
Are you in pain and don't know it?
Are you managing label procurement, or is it managing you?
The Problem: Challenges in Traditional Label Procurement
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Lack of Predictability
Long and inconsistent lead times prevents proper supply chain planning and incentivizes bulk purchasing to ensure sufficient stock for current and future production. This leads to excess inventory that is often wasted due to loss, damage, or obsolescence (design or ingredient changes, customer turnover, etc.).
2
Lack of Flexibility
High minimum order quantities (MOQs) and tiered pricing structures hurt small brands and force bulk purchases, resulting in costly excess inventory. Excess inventory creates a domino effect of costs (tied-up cash and floor space, inventory management costs, waste, and a higher carbon footprint).
3
Inefficient Process
Fragmented communication across disparate channels (emails, attachments, texts, phone calls, etc.) among multiple suppliers and many customers causes delays, errors, and increased costs.
There's a strong need for better procurement control and visibility across brands and customers, which is crucial for PLMs to scale efficiently.
A case study with one of clients showed on average 14 emails per order and at 5 minutes each. That is about an hour per order. Reduce this to ZERO emails with LabelDrive.
LabelDrive: Modern Label Procurement
On-Demand: 48-hour Turnaround
Just-in-time, predictable, and consistent 48-hour turnaround for all orders, ensuring timely production.
No more "forced" bulk orders to combat lead times.
No Minimum Order Quantities
Order only what you need for current production
No more bulk orders for better pricing or to buffer stock levels leading to excess inventory & waste.
Flat Pricing Not Volume-based
Your best volume price for any order quantity.
Say good bye to tiered pricing that incentivizes unnecessary bulk orders and costly excess inventory leading to waste.
Online Catalogs: Label Management
Easily upload, order, track, real-time quotes, status updates, label management through an intuitive UI/UX. Great for large SKU portfolios.
Predictable, Flexible, and Streamlined.
LabelDrive's Mission: Eliminate Excess Inventory
With on-demand, just-in-time procurement, only order what you need for current production. Never hold on to excess label inventory. The excess inventory has a domino effect on costs. The costs to store, manage, insure, and audit labels far exceeds the costs.
Reclaim Warehouse Space
Eliminate storage costs and free up valuable warehouse space occupied by excess inventory.
The average warehouse rent is $10/sq ft and office space is $35/sq ft. Reclaim it & save!
Boost Cash Flow
Unlock tied-up capital with on-demand procurement. No more forced bulk ordering to get better price or combat lead times.
What is the opportunity cost of tied-up cash?
Where else could your capital be deployed for a better ROI? The average IRR for a manufacturing company is 10-15%.
Eliminate Waste
Minimize losses due to expired excess inventory, obsolete, lost, or damaged goods. This helps achieve ESG objectives.
The average waste of excess inventory is ~ 8% [Avery Dennison Global Supply Chain Research, 2022].
Our experience shows PLMs with waste up to 25% prior to LabelDrive. If you have a $100,000 label budget that = $8,000 - $25,000 waste/yr!
Eliminate Inventory Costs
Minimize or eliminate storage and carrying costs (audit, management, taxes, insurance, etc.) of excess inventory.
The average storage and carrying cost is 20% - 30% of inventory value. (Investopedia 2024)
Minimizing Excess Stock Supports Sustainability & ESG Objectives
With on-demand 48-hour turnaround, no MOQs, and flat pricing for all volumes, there is no need to order more than you need, saving on energy, emissions, and waste.
Immediate Benefits
Reduce Costs up to 55% - 70%
Slash costs through lower unit label costs, reduced procurement costs, less excess inventory, carrying costs, and minimized waste.
Flexible Procurement
Order what you need for current production. No MOQs. Enjoy flat pricing at all volumes. No more bulk orders for better pricing or to combat lead times.
Predictable Lead Times
Predictable lead times enable better supply chain planning and management. Eliminating the need for bulk buying and excess safety stock.
Fast Online Ordering
Optimize procurement with digital dashboard for easy ordering, uploads, catalogs, real-time quotes & job status, label management, tracking, etc.
Additional Benefits
Unlock the power of LabelDrive to target specific audiences by varying label designs without the worry of excess inventory and costs.
Why vary label designs?
Target specific audiences with tailored messaging Different demographics respond to different messaging and designs. Now you can speak directly to each audience without worrying about traditional printer constraints or excess inventory costs. Specific Messaging, Events, and Promos Vary designs for enhanced consumer engagement; limited-time-offers, holidays, seasonal, recipes, social, environmental, etc. A/B Testing For Market Fit Test various label designs across multiple channels without the worry of lead times, excess inventory, and costs. Different Sales Channels Speak directly to your audiences by tailoring label designs for different sales channels. Whether it's the online realm of Amazon or the physical spaces of grocery stores, or warehouse clubs like Costco and Sam's, each audience has its unique characteristics to speak to.
LabelDrive PLUS:
White-Labels-as-Service Reseller Option
Our reseller option enables PLMs to offer a turnkey Labels-as-a-Service program under your own brand.
Direct Customer Ordering
Enable your customers to order labels directly through your branded platform, with options for both self-service and managed catalogs.
Complete Control & Visibility
Gain comprehensive oversight of your brands' label procurement, ensuring compliance and real-time tracking of job status.
Streamlined Management
Access unified label management tools, faster payment processing, and enhanced customer service capabilities.
Flexible Implementation
Choose between managing customer catalogs yourself or providing customers direct access to place and manage their orders.
PLM Benefits:
Centralize, Streamline, and Scale Procurement Across All Brands and Customers
As PLMs grow their customer base, the procurement process becomes more fragmented and disparate. It takes more and more costly resources to receive, store, manage, order and communicate job status.
By centralizing procurement across your brands and private-label clients, PLMs can easily scale and manage 100s - 1000s of SKUs across its brands and private label clients.
LabelDrive PLUS provides custom catalogs for all your brands and private label clients, streamling procurememt.
Gain Control and Visibility of Procurement
Centralizing procurement across your customers, gives you complete visibility in to procurement timelines, with real-time status updates. No more being in the dark on when your customer's label shipments are arriving.
Cost Savings
Total cost savings of 55% to 70% at scale.
Waste is reduced by up to 60%.
Reduces procurement time by 80% eliminating delays, errors, and inefficiencies, enabling smoother production cycles and better customer satisfaction.
Flat pricing eliminates the higher costs of lower volume tier pricing.
We meet or beat your best volume price and set this as the flat price at any order volume. For example; if your current printer's* price point for 50,000 labels is $0.06 per label. We will set this as the flat price for any order volume. That is if you only need 100 or 1000 labels the price is $0.06.
*How we calculate your flat price:
We ask you to share your current printer's price point at 50,000 labels. This will be your flat price for any order volume under 50,000 labels.
In most cases label costs are reduced by 10-15% for LabelDrive PLUS customers since the PLM is consolidating and centralizing procurement, increasing order volumes. This secures better pricing and allows passing some of those savings onto their customers.
New Revenue Stream
By consolidating and centralizing procurement and the initial 10-15% cost reduction, there is room for a markup to generate a new revenue stream.
Create Competitive Advantage
Your competitors do not offer this value-added service. Offering LabelDrive PLUS' benefits as service to your customers, helps win more deals, and positions you as a customer-focused leader. Your customers win by lower costs, faster & predictable, turnarounds, order flexibility, and real-time job status updates.
Eco-Friendly
On-demand and no MOQs eliminate excess production lowering carbon footprint, less waste in landfills, and emmisions from shipping.
Your Brands & Customers Benefits:
Small brands often struggle with high cost MOQs and tiered pricing when procuring labels independently. This service levels the playing field for smaller brands, fostering loyalty and creating opportunities for these brands to grow with you.
- Faster & predictable turnaround times (48-hour)
- No MOQs with flat pricing supports your smaller clients and brands
- Lower label costs
- Real-time order status updates
- On-Demand means less inventory stock to manage
- A/B test with out MOQs and long lead times
- Less waste due to label obsolescence, design changes, etc.
- Ability to vary labels designs without high-cost MOQs and excess inventory
- Fast press mockups for sales presentations and quality checks
- Supports ESG objectives (on-demand = less waste)
Differentiate yourself with LabelDrive.
What is Your Label Procurement Model?
PLM Procures For Customers
Current Situation: You procure labels on behalf of your customers, emailing POs, tracking orders and managing printers and customers.
Problem: Manual processes and dealing with many customers and multiple label printers with high MOQs and long lead times, tie up capital and leads costly excess inventory and waste. Lack of visibility into orders creates inefficiencies and delays. Scaling this manual process is difficult.
LabelDrive Solution: Centralize procurement and easily scale to serve hundreds of customers with more visibility and control. While saving 55% - 70%.
PLM Benefits: Your customers will enjoy all of LabelDrive's benefits (lower costs, on-demand ordering, no MOQs, uniform pricing, etc.). Real-time visibility, eliminate manual follow ups,
LabelDrive's reseller option enables you to let your customers order and pay online (or you can still invoice them).
Each customer can upload, store, manage, order, etc. their catalogs.
LabelDrive makes it easier to scale with new, small and emerging brands.
Customers Procure & Send to PLM
Current Situation: You do not want the hassle of procuring labels for your customers. There are too many variables to juggle and manage causing inability to scale.
Problem: Receiving and managing disparate label shipments from customers is chaotic. No procurement control and lack of visibility creates, delays, errors, and disrupts production schedules.
Problem: Receiving and managing disparate label shipments from customers is chaotic. No procurement control and lack of visibility creates, delays, errors, and disrupts production schedules.
LabelDrive Solution: Offer you clients a white label turnkey "Labels as a Service" solution to add value while centralizing procurement to easily scale and serve hundreds of customers.
Centralizing procurement lowers label costs for you and your customers while offering new flexibilities and predictable procurement.
Also, gain real-time visibility and control across your brands and client, while reducing cost 55% - 70% at scale.
Never be in the dark again about customer label shipments.
We handle all the work and support while you lower costs and generate new revenue and your customers enjoy the benefits.
Hybrid: PLM & Customers Procure
Current Situation: This model is very complex to manage and scale.
Problem: Managing two procurement workflows across multiple label suppliers & customers across fragmented communication channels, lacks visibility, creates chaos, errors, frustrations and unnecessary costs. The PLM lacks a unified view of label procurement, leading to blind spots in the supply chain.
Why not standardize, centralize and consolidate your label procurement process to gain control & visibility, lower costs, and generate new revenue?
PLM Benefits: …You already handle logistics and production for your customers. By extending these services to include labels, they create a profitable value-added service without requiring additional investment. Track orders and manage label inventory seamlessly across all customers. Easily scale to serve hundreds of customers.
LabelDrive's reseller option enables you to let your customers order and pay online (or you can still invoice them).
Each customer can upload, store, manage, order, etc. their catalogs.
LabelDrive makes it easier to scale with new, small and emerging brands.
Experience seamless operations and enhanced efficiency with LabelDrive, regardless of your procurement model.
Reseller Benefits
1
Add Value to Your P/L Customers
Become a one-source label supplier across your brands offering your customers unprecedented procurement flexibility, label management, and lower costs through personalized UI/UX and branded catalogs.
2
Generate New Revenue
Consolidating your customers onto the LabelDrive platform increases overall volume reducing pricing for everyone. Each customer can have a unique markup %.
3
Supply Chain Planning, Visibility & Control
You and your customers will gain access to real-time visibility on label production, orders, and delivery status. This level of transparency improves communication, saves time, and reduces errors or delays, making procurement seamless and more efficient.
4
Boost Sales, Innovation, & Scale
LabelDrive enables PLMs to scale more rapidly and engage more startups, small, and emerging brands. Win more deals by pitching LabelDrive benefits to your customers.
5
Automated Ordering
LabelDrive can integrate with most ERP/MRP systems to trigger label orders, status updates, and automate procurement.
LabelDrive ROI
Since there is no investment to deploy LabelDrive, the return on investment (ROI) is massive through a combination of reduced costs, increased efficiencies, and increased revenue.
LabelDrive customers are experiencing a 55%-70% total cost reduction.
LabelDrive: The Future of Label Procurement for Brands and PLMs
Flexible
With no MOQs and uniform pricing, you only order what you need for current production, eliminating excess inventory & associated costs & risks.
Scalable
The platform is built to grow with your business, enabling you to support more customers (even small and emerging brands) without the operational constraints.
Predictable
On-demand 48-hour turnarounds or scheduled inventory refreshes (weekly, bi-weekly, etc.) enables better planning, control, & visibility. No more bulk ordering as a safety net.
Streamlined
Remove procurement friction and fragmented communications (emails, file attachments, phone calls, etc.) with real-time status updates and centralized procurement model
Fast
On-Demand: 48-hour Turnaround, a new standard. It's like having a dedicated in-house print shop.
Eco-Friendly
On-Demand, enables you to order what you need for current production, eliminating excess production, emissions, and waste. Lowers carbon footprint.
Label Drive represents a paradigm shift in label procurement for private label manufacturers. By addressing long-standing industry constraints and challenges and leveraging cutting-edge technology, LabelDrive empowers PLMs to streamline operations, reduce costs, generate revenue and drive innovation. Embrace the future of label procurement with LabelDrive and position your business for sustainable growth and success in an increasingly competitive market.
LabelDrive represents a paradigm shift in label procurement for private label manufacturers. By addressing long-standing industry constraints and challenges and leveraging cutting-edge technology, LabelDrive empowers PLMs to streamline operations, reduce costs, generate revenue and drive innovation. Embrace the future of label procurement with LabelDrive and position your business for sustainable growth and success in an increasingly competitive market.
How it Works: (Brands & PLMs)
Online Platform Access
Access your customized label procurement dashboard to manage all orders in one place.
Upload & Order
Upload label designs or work with our team to create custom labels with instant pricing.
48-Hour Turnaround
Labels are printed and shipped within 48 hours using state-of-the-art technology
Getting Started with LabelDrive
1
Pricing Approval
Provide specs or a recent label order invoice, and we will meet or beat your current pricing.
2
Quality Approval
Send your label art files and we will print and ship samples for your quality review.
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Onboard & Launch
Once pricing & print quality is approved, setting up your account takes only minutes
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Start Ordering
You are ready to go!
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