The marketplace is flooded with office supplies companies, most have acceptable service level and provide products from the same buying sources.
It can be very confusing when you receive cold call from a prospecting office supplies company guaranteeing savings of 20-30% especially when you existing supplier has told you that you have the best available pricing! In many cases this percentage saving can be true, but often short lived.
So how can a new supplier offer this type of saving?
Prices offered to new business clients are often lower than the prices used to run existing accounts, some organisations will even supply their goods at below cost on the products you buy on a regular basis. They then introduce new products and services with larger profit margins replacing branded items for own brand products. This is to claw back any losses they might be making.
WhatStationers.co.uk is a new stationery information website where you will be able to find “Answers” and ask “Questions.” Find articles related to the different contracts and services office supplies companies offer. The aim of the site is to arm you with information. You will be able to find articles related to the whole procurement process and get involved.
Archiving & Data Storage | Consolidation | Cost Consultants | Decision Makers | E-Auction Environmental Products | IT & Consumables | Marketing Print | Office Furniture | Printing | Tender Process | Transport & Warehouse Storage.
If buyers of office products continue to work together they will better understand the multi billion pound industry.
The mindset of the consumer and business owners is now about taking the control back from suppliers who are not up front with their pricing structures. No matter how big or small you are as an organisation the opportunities are now available to lower costs and keep them low.
Price comparison websites have taken the control back from brands monopolising the marketplace. We will be opening up discussions that turn a minority in to a majority. You only have to look at what has been achieved for the general public with Banks overcharging customers in previous years.
