Optimized Print Services - Introduction and Concept

Introduction and Concept

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Making printing infrastructure work efficiently

Office technologies have advanced, users’ needs have changed. A lot of current printing environments are patchworks of printing, imaging and fax devices that aren’t managed or serviced to keep up with today’s business world. Konica Minolta’s Optimised Print Services (OPS) combine consulting, hardware, software implementation and workflow management in order to lower document spend. The OPS concept focuses on four essential areas:

• Fleet: Right-sizing the document output fleet to actual business needs, providing optimal business process and fleet support, and establishing continuous optimisation ? balanced with minimal cost of ownership and environmental impact.
• Process: Analysing all business-relevant document flows in order to increase productivity, to benefit from saving potentials and design, to implement and operate a solution tailormade to meet your precise daily needs.
• Finance: Offering different purchasing and leasing options as well as various contract models, and integrating existing contracts into a single transparent financial plan.
• Security: Designing and implementing IT and information security solutions, from user authentication and data-safe hard disk handling of disposed devices to complex network security requirements.

The OPS concept is based on a three-pillared approach: Consult, Implement and Manage.

Konica Minolta Optimized Print Services:

See http://www.konicaminolta.co.uk/business-solutions/products/consulting-and-services/optimized-print-services-old/introduction-and-concept.html 

http://www.konicaminolta-ops.eu/

LUPC Spend Analysis Shared Service

The London Universites Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) is a not-for-profit professional buying organisation owned by its Members, for its Members

LUPC has teamed up with BravoSolution to launch a brand new Spend Analysis Shared Service exclusively for LUPC Members. 

The central aims of the service are to ensure that LUPC frameworks continue to provide value for money and that new spend areas are identified and investigated where we can fully leverage our Members’ collective buying power.
Under the deal with BravoSolution, LUPC can analyse summary spend data at Consortium level, enabling us to monitor the use of LUPC frameworks and spot new value opportunities to generate further savings for our Members.
We have also detailed, high performance spend analysis within affordability for a great many of our Members.

LUPC Members, have you sent us your data?  Act today!
You can ensure that your Institution is included in this important shared services project by sending us your 2009-10 summary spend data (AP data) on a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to l.administrator@lupc.lon.ac.uk.  Call us on 020 7863 1691 if you have any questions.

Huge discounts exclusively for LUPC Members
As an LUPC Member, you now have the opportunity to benefit directly from the new Spend Analysis Shared Service at a vastly reduced special Member’s rate, by providing your own detailed data extract direct to BravoSolution.  You can access a whole series of reports using a web-based system rich in functionality, allowing you to carry out your own detailed analysis to help identify trends and procurement buying or process savings for your Institution.  Full training is available.
Key features of the LUPC Spend Analysis Shared Service tool are:
Collaborative benefits

• Compliance analysis with existing LUPC framework contracts
• Identification of new contract opportunities
• Identification of supplier consolidation opportunities across Members and categories
• Increased negotiation leverage in existing relationships through demand aggregation

Direct Member benefits

• Online analysis and increased visibility into spend
• Accurate classification using line item details
• Category benchmarking across LUPC
• Contract compliance with Member’s own contracts

Specially-negotiated rates for joining the scheme for each Member are available

If you are interested in joining the scheme or would just like to hear more details, please contact Charlotte Reichard of LUPC on 020 7863 1692 or mailto:mail%20to:%20charlotte@lupc.lon.ac.uk, or Mike Roberts of BravoSolution on 07795 431102 or m.roberts@bravosolution.com.

UCU Camaign - Open letter: signatories 4,001+

Open letter: signatories 4,001+

Open letter to vice-chancellors and principals asking them to confirm that their university will not seek to privatise or contract out any aspect of the running of any academic department or key support function.

http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2439