"If office supplies are not important, why spend so much valuable time buying and controlling them?"

As we enter the new Millenium it is vital that companies are lean, competitive and have their business resources focused on delivering exceptional service to their customers.

At Expedite, we are completely focused on reducing our customers costs and providing a timely, efficient service for their office needs. In short, we provide 'The Total Office Solution'.

A typical office products dealer will offer a reduction in your product costs - in our industry, these are called 'Hard Costs'. A couple of pence cheaper on correction fluid, four pence on a ream of paper, twenty pence on a laser toner. At first, these savings can seem attractive, and dealers have been selling this way for decades. However, if you look at the hidden costs, or 'Soft Costs', you'll soon see why time and again, companies are paying way over the odds for office products and services.

What are the soft costs?

Non-Standardisation of Products:

Five different types of paper, ten brands of stapler, original cartridges, compatible cartridges, remanufactured cartridges!!

Most offices we visit are cluttered with a wide variety of different products, from different suppliers, at wildly different prices.

Standardise your product usage - reduce your costs.

Order processing:

Every minute spent ordering office products and services, is a minute that could have been spent working on your business, selling your products and services, marketing your new promotions - the things that make your business grow and prosper!

Streamline your ordering processes - reduce your costs.

Accounting:

The more suppliers you have, the more invoices you will receive and the more time your staff will spend administrating your office supplies purchasing. It's a matter of choice - process a hundred invoices from ten suppliers, or one invoice from one supplier. Pay ten suppliers every month, or pay one supplier every month.

Free resources - reduce your costs.

Receipt & Distribution of Goods:

How are your goods delivered? Is one of your important staff members wasting time taking deliveries, unpacking boxes and stocking the stationery store? Sometimes, a helping hand can be very welcome.

Release time - reduce your costs.

Storage:

How are your goods stored? Every square-foot of space taken up by your stock is space that could be used for a more productive purpose. We have innovative ways to reduce your stock-holding, save space and time retrieving supplies.

Maximise your space - reduce your costs.

Precious Time:

The most important soft cost is represented by your precious time, and the precious time spent (wasted?) by your staff on purchasing and managing office products.

Let someone else take the strain, take the 'Total Office Solution' - it's tailored for your business.

That's the story, these are the facts...

A typical company with 100 office workers may spend $50,000 per annum on office supplies, furniture, computer supplies, janitorial services and vending.

Reliable estimates are that soft costs can amount to between 50-125% of the actual product cost. - taking the conservative figure of 50% this represents a cost of $25,000.

Expedite provides a free 'Total Office Audit' to assess every aspect of your office products purchasing.

The process is straightforward...

  • We visit your offices and take copies of invoices from your existing suppliers.
  • We ask important questions about how you purchase, receive, distribute, store and account for office products.
  • Our auditors analyse your purchasing using software tools and a huge database of office product information.
  • A detailed report is produced and presented to you, along with proposed pricing for every office product you use.

We'll show you savings on product costs (hard costs)...

In a perfect world, we'd like to be able to save you money on every single product you ever buy for your office. However, we know that no matter how competitive we are, there will always be a special offer somewhere that's a penny better! If you spend some time phoning round all the dealers in Yellow Pages, you'll find a better price eventually...

But why take the time (or rather WASTE time) calling for quotes? We guarantee that our prices are consistently competitive because we buy with OfficeSMART, the £100m marketing group. This gives us massive buying power with wholesalers and manufacturers, and we've negotiated long-term deals to keep costs down on even the most price-sensitive items.

All you need to know: Expedite will produce a price list for every item you order. The cost of buying your office products, at your current usage, WILL COST YOU LESS with Expedite.

We'll identify and eliminate soft costs (the real DIFFERENCE)...

  • Electronic Ordering Links
  • Consolidated Invoices
  • Standardisation of Supplier
  • Standardisation of Product
  • Reduced stock-holding
  • Minimum pack sizes
  • Management reports
  • Minimum pack sizes

Free Audit: What have you got to lose?

Be good to your business - apply for a free 'Total Office Audit' today. Simply fill out the form below and a member of our customer service team will contact you shortly.

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Please Note:
Our free services are offered to customers and prospective customers in the South West of England. For full information about the areas we cover, contact our customer service team on (01934) 422 222 or e-mail info@expedite.uk.com