Managed Print Service (MPS)

Over the past few years, IT departments have focused heavily on reducing costs. But many have overlooked a service that may cost you as much as 2% of your revenue – your print service. Have you controlled your print services? Do you have far more printers than you need? In general, the cheaper the printer, the higher the cost per page.The movement therefore,is for companies to move towards managed print services, which deliver the following benefits:

• A single point of contact for every  printer or photocopier in your business
• Reduction or elimination of in-house support overhead.
• Reduced per-page printing costs
• Reduced TCO for your print fleet
• Minimised downtime

Print Audit or profit creation?

Beware of the print auditors that estimate toner usage and volumes.If the auditor does not request your precise printer consumable spend and analyse your invoices then he is using guess work, not reality. Huge profits are created by these auditors and the client can actually approve new supply and increase their spend! We deal in reality not fiction.

How we differ...

A managed print service vendor will estimate what you spend today and then make an offer that reduces your cost by, typically, 10-25%, building in a healthy margin for themselves in the process. They will tie you into a 3, or more frequently, a 5 year contract that will be difficult to get out of, even if the supplier doesn’t perform.

The BuyersBuddy MPS...

We approach it differently. We believe that printing is a commodity service and should be treated as such. We build your solution from the bottom up, looking at what you actually need, then building in a 0% margin for ourselves. Why? Because we make our money by equitably sharing the savings with you. We will ask you to sign a 3 year deal and in years 4 & 5 you can choose to maximise the savings by taking the entire estate rent free, or perhaps upgrading some heavy usage devices whilst enjoying savings on the rest of your fleet.

In addition, we fly in the face of conventional wisdom by using high quality, sub-contracted print maintenance providers. Why? Because we work for your benefit we can drive down the cost per page, while allowing you to change providers, at any time, without penalty and without lengthy justification. Your managed print service vendor may talk about supply chain consolidation - but wouldn't you rather have a vendor that knows he can lose your business at a moments notice and is therefore motivated to deliver service excellence, day in, day out? 

Contact us and enjoy the benefits...

A Managed Print Service from The BuyersBuddy will result in a substantially lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and quality of service far in excess of our competitors. You get all the benefits of a managed service, with none of the tie-ins.
If you are planning to migrate to a managed print service in the next 18 months,contact us today to find out exactly what we can save you by using factual print audit methods, applying trade prices for high quality devices, supported by exceptional service providers.

...fact, not fiction.