Packaging

This category includes all kinds of packaging, no matter whether the usage is for sending, promotional packages or storage.

With Acos’ Supplier Relationship Management™(SRM™) method, most organisations can achieve
savings and quality improvements with a minimal time usage.

Usually purchase and reordering is placed with current suppliers and very often based on outdated price agreements.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.