“What can I say about PDQ? Well, it has revolutionised our business and on that basis we can’t recommend it. We’d like to keep it all to ourselves!” Russell Roberts – Stonehouse Press
The world of print is changing. Prices are dropping. Customers are more demanding. The environment is shaping our choices. And the pressure on your business to survive is increasing. Now there is a tool that can help take some of the heat off.
PDQ is the newest and one of the most powerful route-based intelligent estimating solutions in its class. Our software can help you reduce the cost of estimating and improve your speed of response to customers, saving you time and money. It can also estimate a carbon footprint for every job. But don’t just take our word for it. Try it now FREE for 60 days.
You will discover a feature packed software solution containing a wide range of generic manufacturing equipment including: Digital, B3, B2 and B1 presses with sustainable cost rates built in. Also included, generic average paper prices for standard stocks, such as gloss, matt and uncoated with tips and advice of best-fit paper stocks for printed products. You will find it an invaluable guide to the market and an ideal companion to your MIS.
"We examined PDQ as a tool to ensure consistency in our estimating and to provide both the office and the field based team with the ability to produce instant quotes; PDQ delivers on all counts. We are particularly excited about PDQ's ability to integrate with our existing applications, eliminating duplication and re-keying which has previously negated the efficiency benefits of stand-alone estimating tools". Matthew Wennington - Managing Director FastAnt Marketing Materials Management
pdqcompare.com is a revolutionary new way of buying print. Powered by PDQ it delivers instant real-time prices online from a broad spectrum of high quality printers all of whom possess our unique technology. It gives buyers the edge when they need it the most and a fast, accurate price generated deep within the heart of their suppliers own estimating system – with an accuracy unparalleled in the industry. For a buyer, it means making life a lot easier. For a printer it means a low-cost route to a large potential client base. It a genuine win-win, something that has been sorely absent in the printing industry for a very long time.
pdqcompare.com – buying just got better.
Haybrooke is pleased to offer your business state of the art cost rates calculation software backed up by a comprehensive cost rates calculation and consultancy service . This service is provided by our CEO John Roche, author of the BPIF's 2006 publication, Costing Principles & Guidelines and veteran of over 200 costing consultancies both in the UK and US at printers of all shapes and sizes (from £100k to £100m turnover).
Our software is also available to purchase - details available on request.
PrintWeek 11th March 2010 IPEX press release: Haybrooke Associates will launch a JDF-enabled version of its intelligent estimating package, PDQ, at Ipex, to improve the software's integration with MIS. The company said the software allows printers to cut the costs of in-house estimating by allowing customers to enter their own job specifications, such as quantities and production processes. Managing director John Roche said: "JDF means files flow seamlessly from the buyer, through PDQ into the printer's MIS." He added that the software's route-based estimates offered printers an answer to the "double-whammy" of demands for faster quote turnaround times and falling conversion rates from quotes to jobs. "PDQ vastly increases the number of quotes processed," said Roche. "If you keep the same conversion rate you will win more work. However as prices fall, conversion rates fall and if, for example, conversion rates halve, you need to double the number of quotes just to stand still. That's a fact of the market. PDQ offers the way out."
Come visit us on stand 09-F317-5 (pod 5 in the Springboard area). We look forward to seeing you.