Take Control of your Print Procurement

Print spend—it's a sizeable component in many corporate budgets. In fact, print services and materials comprise one of the largest areas of corporate spending—up to three percent of revenues, according to industry estimates. Managing the complexities of the print lifecycle, including print procurement, production, and distribution, can be difficult and time consuming, resulting in even higher costs.

Companies utilize numerous methods for controlling this substantial expense: putting suppliers under contract, implementing rate cards, utilizing Requests for Estimates (RFEs) or outsourcing the entire process. However, each strategy presents its own set of challenges, often making it difficult to determine the best approach. That's where NewlineNoosh comes into play.

Information at your Fingertips

Whether you buy print using RFEs, contracts, or rate cards NewlineNoosh technology gives you complete visibility into your supply chain—internally and externally—allowing you to improve efficiency, refine your procurement practices, and reduce costs by 20 percent or more. NewlineNoosh’s flexible, Web-based software solution goes way beyond automating RFEs. NewlineNoosh technology creates an efficient and collaborative working environment between agencies, vendors, and your employees, and infuses your team with the critical knowledge necessary to make well-informed decisions, such as:

• The optimum purchasing strategy for each product type
• The best supplier for each product based on your own unique rating system
• When to aggregate print orders for consolidated buying

With fact-based decision-making, centralized control, and the ability to track every detail, no other solution matches the strategic procurement framework available from NewlineNoosh.

Take Print Procurement to the Next Level

NewlineNoosh technology automates the procurement process for even your most complex projects, enabling you to realize immediate savings. With NewlineNoosh technology, you can take advantage of the spot market to weigh quality versus price decisions, create an overall performance rating of suppliers, and enforce contract agreements if your strategy dictates. You can also:

• Quickly assemble print specifications from company templates, establishing clear standards for paper grades and colors, product types, and more
• Clearly delineate buyer and supplier concerns and agreement terms using the two-way negotiation process for custom projects
• Automatically notify printers via email of RFEs, change orders, and more
• Allow printers to offer alternative specifications in a standardized format that is easy to compare and analyze
• Automatically notify all participants once a job is awarded
• Aggregate projects with like specifications—even if they originate in different business units or agencies—to receive volume breaks from suppliers
• Track resultant shipments—including actual versus planned dates—and the information necessary for closing the order
• Manage change orders in one place

Further Refine your Purchasing Processes

Unmatched RFE capabilities aren’t the only benefit you receive by harnessing the data captured by NewlineNoosh technology. NewlineNoosh Print Procurement software provides functionality that matches and enhances your purchasing strategy. You can fine-tune your processes, making it possible to further control and reduce costs. Eliminate maverick buying and undocumented change orders. Identify unfavorable pricing trends immediately—even across multiple divisions in your company.

Make Informed Decisions with Performance Reporting

NewlineNoosh provides a powerful reporting capability for analyzing the data captured during procurement cycles, giving you greater spend control and enabling you to execute solid supplier and purchasing strategies. With NewlineNoosh reporting capabilities you have the ability to track spend and supplier performance history. Standard reports include:

NewlineNoosh Performance Reports provides the flexibility to build your own custom reports. These custom reporting capabilities allow you to:

• Schedule automatically-generated reports and disseminate information to team members
• Export report data into Excel for additional analysis
• Publish report results and charts to keep management information easily accessible and communicate your team’s progress toward goals

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