saving your business time and money

In this issue:

This month's key questions

Benefits

Guest Section

Testimonial

Tip of the Month

Every organization is conscious that business costs

represent losses in both cash and profitability.  The

challenge is to prevent this loss in a co-ordinated and effective

manner whilst also focusing 100% on customers.

Total Purchasing Solutions is about enabling organisations to

achieve this providing the means to manage costs.

Average savings achieved are over 22%

KEY QUESTIONS

What level of sales would result in an additional

£50,000 profit?

   •  Once you have the answer

      then think about where

      these sales will come from

BECAUSE

   •  Reducing costs by £50,000

      means £50,000 profit

Total Purchasing Solutions

deliver this.

MONTHLY TIP

The only way to know if a current supplier is over-charging is to investigate

the market place

What are the benefits of Total Purchasing Solutions?

We hear that an organisation is growing and naturally assume an increase in revenue, i.e. sales growth. Over time such organisations will develop an intricate knowledge of their product/service and the best means of satisfying demand.

However, sales growth is accompanied by an increase in general business costs or overheads, i.e. the costs incurred to operate your infrastructure. 

The fact is that overheads are common across all organisations:

•   Telephone calls need to connect every time

•   PC’s must function when plugged into the electricity sockets

•   Office supplies are delivered within 24 hours or ordering

•   etc.

Whilst the goal is to increase sales, senior management are distracted by a constant need to control these costs.  The result is that either:

•   There is a total focus on sales with overheads escalating,

     or

•   Time is set aside from focusing on sales to monitor the spend on overheads

There is a better way -  Use a Cost Reduction Specialist.

For a Cost Reduction Specialist, such as Total Purchasing Solutions, your overheads are their sales.  The Cost Reduction Specialist will have:

      •   An intricate knowledge of the full range of suppliers for the

          more than 50 overhead expense categories

      •   A tried and tested process for reviewing each expense category  

          precisely displaying the savings achievable - averaging over 22%

      •   Buying power with suppliers that equal the cumulative effect of

          all it's clients

For our clients this means large cash savings!

Guest Section

Total Purchasing Solutions help organisations in all areas of overhead spend, to reduce the costs incurred to operate their enterprise rather than generate revenue.

In addition, organisations require products/services of a technical nature or with a unique service element.  In each edition of this newsletter we will introduce such a supplier and specify how they will save you money.

CESMB

The Centre for Environmental and Safety Management for Business (CESMB) helps organisations recognise how environmental management is a key factor in competitiveness – locally, nationally and internationally.

For example, if you are spending over £5,000 per annum on energy there are significant savings that can be achieved through implementing energy saving measures - assistance is often free of charge.

Working with both Total Purchasing Solutions and the CESMB will result is significantly lower bills through both lower energy usage and a lower unit cost.

For further information call Stewart Anthony of the CESMB on

020 8411 6067/6303 or call Total Purchasing Solutions.

To find out how to turn your overheads into cash

CALL FREE ON 0800 652 2642

www.totalpurchasingsolutions.com

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