Managed Output

Since 2004, SPS has helped dozens of corridor businesses achieve control over the costs of printed page production. Using cutting edge technology, SPS can easily help you determine how your printed page output platform is performing and collaborates with you to implement strategies to maximize the system to operate at optimum advantage for your business.

The Gartner Group estimates that 1 - 3% of a companies annual revenues are spent on printed page production.

Manage Your Output

1. How many printed pages does your organization produce in the course of a month?

2. What is the cost to your organization each time someone clicks file/print, receives a fax or makes a copy?

As with most every client we work with, the answers to these two questions are not readily known. That's because these elements have not been designated as their own cost center. Other factors that have made it traditionally difficult to manage output costs are:

Departmentalized responsibility for assets
Costs "hidden" inside department budgets
Lack of continuity with devices and supplies
Aging fleets creating heavy IT burden and expense

Companies commit to managing employees, taxes, productivity, cash flow, retirement plans, and customers, yet this particular cost center remains greatly un-managed. Strategic Print Solutions can help bring control and continuity to what experts deem as the last unmanaged cost center in most business.

"After deciding to implement the Managed Cost Program from SPS I was told by 'competing' companies that this program would not really reduce our costs and that we would actually suffer an increase in our costs. When it came time for the first reconciliation period of our page production, I was extremely pleased to find that we did in fact reduce our costs by almost 15% which was more than we had planned for inside the Managed Cost Program strategy. I think the difference at this point has to do with the increased use of the 'E' capabilities that SPS built into the strategy for us. We are using those capabilities more and more each week to move documentation around inside our company as well as to our vendors and sales agents."

- Amy - CFO / Gas Technologies Company

Color printing, which costs 5x more, is expected to reach 40% of total print volume over the next 3 years*

*Gartner Group


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