Category Management

When contemplating the option of outsourcing your organisation’s document outputs, one immediately tends to think of benefits such as streamlining the document output process whilst simultaneously saving employees valuable time. “However, the benefits of outsourcing the management of your document outputs do not stop here as this decision can be a strategic driver in making […]

Output devices – i.e. copiers, faxes, printers, scanners and new generation multi-functional units, usually represent an area of uncontrolled ‘maverick’ spend in most organisations. “In fact, if you were to tally up the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the ‘paper production’ as pushed out by your employees on a daily basis, you will be

Cut paper prices (delivered) continue to decline according to the Pricetrak Group Trend Index (July 2006) for all South African companies benchmarked. So much for paper prices being driven by the Rand/Dollar exchange rate! According to Alan Low, MD of Pricetrak, a more likely explanation is that there is greater competition between the paper merchants