Office

This category covers office supplies, a cost category where most organisations in average spend Dkk. 3.000 – 3.500 per staff member per year. The category includes:

• Office supplies
• Copy paper
• Small stationary
• Toner cartridges
• IT consumer goods
• Tea/coffee
• Various cleaning articles

Reducing costs is also earning money. With Acos’ Supplier Relationship Management™(SRM™) process, most organisations can reduce costs and improve quality without spending too much time, and costs saved is money earned. Usually purchase and reordering is placed with current suppliers and very often based on outdated price agreements.
Also, it can be difficult to be sure whether you have a good or poor agreement even though your organisation just recently re-negotiated the terms or compared prices to others.

For example; some suppliers can offer you very interesting prices on few chosen loss leaders – prices which are often below cost price. At the same time, prices on other products can be way over the market price, which means that the supplier still earns his money back – and more.

The SRM™method is based on the registry of all relevant invoices for a representative time period, a historical analysis on a line by line basis. When the real consumer pattern is known, the Acos Category Expert makes the tender based on the volume of approximately 1 year +/- of purchase, including all requirement specifications for benchmarking the offers received. Incoming price offers are compared directly to the benchmark of each product line and the client makes his choice based on the bottom line result of Acos’ comparisons.

In most cases, the client ends up with one primary supplier, who can offer best prices based on presuming having this client for at least 16 months and probably more. Very often this process also leads to more effective order procedures.
In advance, the client often gets additional advantages, e.g. internet solution, with the advantage having a personalized catalogue at his disposal with previous agreed prices. This also helps the client reducing the time spent in ordering = reducing general costs.

E-trade solution

In Denmark, Acos also proposes an e-trade solution for purchasing of office supplies. Acos offers small and medium-sized organisations to get optimum prices without tendering. For this we have acosportal.dk - an e-trade solution for organisations spending annually between Dkr. 150.000 and Dkr. 500.000. Prices are all set after a pooling system and Acos guarantees savings of minimum 14 % which can go as high up as 20 %.

Uniting small purchase volumes together leeds to better and fixed prices to all clients who have access to acosportal.dk and it also makes your daily purchase easier, quicker and helps you save time.

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