Print procurement - Centralising a decentralised function
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Print management at Absa: a financial services case study
Christian Bell of POINT South Africa tells SmartProcurement about the company’s ongoing print management at Absa, a leading financial services provider and a member of the Barclays Group, and how audited savings of 34% were achieved.
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Selecting a Single Managed Print Service partner
Print is a cost that crosses a myriad of disciplines in any organisation. From the business cards and brochures that your sales force uses when calling on customers, and the induction booklets provided to new employees, to the invoices produced monthly during billing and the numerous reports prepared for meetings, printing costs are often not represented by a single line in the business, making if difficult – if not impossible – for companies to track or quantify their expenditure, Trevor Bennett, a Divisional MD of Ince, an integrated communications organisation, tells SmartProcurement.
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Hollard appoints INCE as SMS provider for Print Services
Hollard has appointed INCE Outsourced Communications as their single managed service (SMS) provider for Print Management Services, Trevor Bennett, Divisional MD of INCE Outsourced Communications, told SmartProcurement.
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Rethink your paper usage - SA company projects savings of 40%
After seven months of proven savings, a South African Financial Services (FS) company of more than 3 000 employees has projected annual savings in excess of 40% in paper and associated printing and faxing costs, Rethink Consulting’s Francois Bedeker, tells SmartProcurement.
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Who should own procurement of the print commodity?
Is there value in Print Management Centres? Corporations expend considerable time and effort managing and maximising investment in areas such as Information Technology, Human Resources (HR), Facilities and other direct expenditure areas. However, they typically overlook a huge but hidden commodity – Print, Christian Bell, Sales and Marketing Manager at local Print Management company POINT, tells SmartProcurement.
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Print management: managed delivery just as important
When considering print management as a solution, organisations tend to focus on the Procurement aspect of the solution: the system itself and the savings it can bring. Consequently, a Print Management supplier is often assessed on the quality, functionality, user-interface and reporting capability of the system that it is using.However, while Procurement is an important aspect, another leg on which a great Print Management service stands is ‘managed delivery’, Trevor Bennett, Divisional Managing Director of Outsourced Communications for Integrated Communications Agency, Ince tells SmartProcurement.
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Green Procurement - Paper Management Programmes
We’re all very well aware of our need to reduce carbon emissions and care for our planet. In Corporate South Africa more and more organisations are asking a key question: How much paper are we consuming for our marketing efforts? Indeed, this is a very good question, however, the usual response from Procurement or Marketing departments is “how must we manage what cannot be measured?” The reality is that very few organisations have an answer to this question, yet they have enormous cabinets full of Corporate and SocialResponsibility briefings, Christian Bell, Sales and Marketing Manager at local Print Management Company POINT tells SmartProcurement.
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Just how much is your organisation actually paying for print?
The procurement of print is much more complex than one might think. It requires expertise across several fronts. In its report titled ‘Category Expenditure Management: Print and Print Services’, the Aberdeen Group summed it up succinctly. A South African company, POINT claims proven savings in excess of 30% in this area..
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Automating and / or outsourcing external print services
“External print services will usually be categorised as indirect spend, unless your organisation itself is in print or publishing, in which case, it would fall into the direct spend category”, Gary Davies, Managing Director of Print Outsource International (POINT), told SmartProcurement.
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Sourcing of external print services & managing supply challenges explored
The process of printing on large scale and in big volumes requires a substantial investment in expensive printing machines and in highly expert manpower. This has given rise to a stand-alone sector of External Print Suppliers such as CTP Book Printers, Tandym Print and the Caxton Group, to mention but a few. These organisations offer the end-user a wide variety of print options tailored to the multitude of products you find out in the market today...
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How to Optimise the Procurement of External Print Services
Just what is it that makes print such a complex category to purchase and manage from the procurement perspective?Posted by Editor at 11:05 AM | Comments (0)
Optimising the Procurement of External Print Services
Based on the Aberdeen Research Group Report , which was highlighted in SmartProcurement's August 2008 feature article, Outsourcing Management of Print Can Lead to 30% Cost Savings, it is clear that the main processes by which print is procured, are:- Manually sourced / procured by local procurement person / department.
- Manually sourced / procured by whoever has the need.
- Manually sourced / procured by a centralised procurement group.
- Automated process using generic e-procurement / e-sourcing solution.
- Automated process using a specific print procurement / management solution.
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Outsourcing Management of Print can lead to 30% cost savings
"The world-wide trend in commodity spend management is to either appoint speciality managers internally, or to outsource the spend to a credible third party service provider", Gary Davies, Managing Director of Print Outsource International (POINT), told SmartProcurement in a recent interview. In the industry, this specialist outsourced service is neatly captioned "Print Management". Furthermore, it is necessary to make the distinction that these services are normally engaged in managing the organisation's 'external' print requirements, i.e. where you send the jobs out and do not process it internally, using your own resources.
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