The procurement of output devices (copiers, faxes, printers and scanners) is fast becoming a science in its own right. This commodity group traditionally falls under an organisation’s ‘indirect spend’ category (i.e. non-core business requirements), and as such is often not on the radar of the procurement department. This is partly the case for the reason […]
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“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,
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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
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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
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“By rights, the issuing of a tender should mean the company is serious about placing orders – after all, respondents approach tenders with a belief that the company has realised a pressing need for the equipment, system and or services in question,” Billy Bell of Bell Output Strategies told Smart Procurement. “However, in many instances
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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
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Most organisations finance their office automation equipment due to the associated high capital commitments. The problem here is that if there are issues with the equipment the corporate company cannot hold back payments or force the issue of replacement because the financial instrument still has to be paid to someone else, regardless of performance… By
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