Developing a clear organisational wide print stratergy can deliver huge savings on your printing costs

Printing costs are often seen as hidden, small or incidental costs within an organisation that have no or little bearing on the overall financial position of an organisation.

Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, has proven that on average 3% of the total revenue of any organisation can be attributed to printing costs. For a typical Housing Association, that can run well into the hundreds of thousands of pounds every year, for example every £10million turnover/revenue then generates approximately £300,000 of print costs.

That’s where Office Depot, a supplier on the PfH print management framework, can help. Office Depot and their printing partners support over £100 million of printing spend every year. Their teams work with organisations to firstly establish the true cost of print and then work closely with these organisations to review the on-going requirements, analyse work processes and come up with a true solution that looks at all aspects of print and communication.

By engaging with one of Office Depot’s audit teams, they will look at all aspects of your print to ensure not only maximum efficiencies but introducing measurement and cost analyses software that has been proven to reduce costs immediately by 14%. They also look at operation, marketing and general communication print, becoming the central link in pulling all the print requirements together from all the departments.

Office Depot will present their initial audit findings and their recommendations for improvement, from consolidation of print, vat mitigation, standardization of paper stocks to introduction of better wok practices such as on-line web based procurement systems that not only improve administration functions but also police brand control, eliminate artwork costs and dramatically cut time of production from days to seconds.

Office Depot’s key deliverable is to develop a structured and measurable print strategy for your organisation that with continual evaluation between your management team and the Office Depot, allows you to drive costs and efficiencies on print throughout your organisation.

To engage initial discussions on a FREE print audit from the Office Depot team and release immediate savings of between 14-40% on your print spend, contact Adrian Sewell (PfH Major Account Manager ) on 0773 081 0451