What is the Print Outsourcing Economy Audit and How Does it Work?
The print economy audit is a system focused on reducing the total print costs affecting your company.
It provides unbiased analysis on areas of your business that use or purchase print.
The Shiva Offset Print Outsourcing Economy Audit follows a proven critical analysis path:
- We analyse which printed items have been ordered and used by your company. We will detail and offer alternative pricing, product specification and order scheduling where applicable for your comparison as well as providing a like for like quote on all previous print jobs.
- We investigate who orders what, when and why to enable us to suggest and offer a more streamlined approach to managing your print.
- We review your supplier base to see exactly how many suppliers your company has used for it’s printing needs. From this we can propose a reduction in vendors, thus leveraging purchasing power with fewer, more suitable and efficient suppliers.
- Finally, we produce a document based on our findings which charts a more effective procurement model to reduce your total annual print spend. This report includes monitoring and where appropriate, reporting on all of those ‘forgotten costs’ that are absorbed somewhere within your organisation, but will all impact on the total price you pay for print, for example, design & storage.
Print Outsourcing Economy Audit – the Benefits
Shiva Offset recognise that every company is different and that there is no such thing as ‘one size fits all’.
Your report will be as individual as you are, being tailored to meet your current and future business goals.
Our aim is to give you as much critical and relevant information as possible on the total cost of print within your company…and what you can do to help reduce it.
The print economy audit presents a full and impartial report covering your basic known print spend. In addition, we account for areas where ‘hidden and forgotten’ costs are incurred within your company’s total print procurement processes such as:
- Ad Hoc buying
- Multi order processing
- Fragmented purchasing & lack of manufacturing knowledge
- Historic product design
- Solus manufacturing
- Artwork and brand management
- Stagnant supplier base
- Ineffective stock management/Storage
- Excessive logistics
- Uncoordinated distribution
- Product obsolescence/Damage
- Lack of proper reporting and management information.
- Accounting – Multiple invoices and payments
Bellow are some of the major benefits that Shiva Offset’s clients have achieved by following the Print Audit recommendations:
- More streamlined procurement process
- A defined print strategy
- Visible and accountable ordering procedures
- Quicker routes to market
- Product re-engineering
- Batch manufacturing
- A more flexible and focused supplier base with a full and diverse product offering
- Centralised and managed artwork systems.
- Lower cost logistics
- Forward planned distribution
- Timely and relevant management information
- Reduced wastage and redundant stocks
- A reduction in total print spend
- Allows benchmarking of current supplier base
- Time freed up to focus on your own business’s speciality, leaving Shiva Offset to focus on your print.
If you'd like to find out how much resources and associated costs you could free up by switching to Shiva Offset, simply get in touch.