Ascher Group - Office Products and Services Consulting

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Office Products Consulting

The Ascher Group has an original approach to Office Products. Rather than just looking at your standard list of supplies, we look at your entire history and your future needs to ensure the right supplier at the right price. Your staff’s time is precious and looking through the 2,000+ products that the typical company purchases over a year is simply not feasible. The Ascher Group has over 10+ years experience in Office Products and has knowledge of the products vendors and system capabilities.

We Offer our Clients:

	Office Product and Office Supplies Program Re-Design for current vendors
	New Office Product / Office Supply vendor selection and support
	On-going billing, contract compliance and program support

New Office Product / Office Supply Vendor Selection

The Ascher Group strives to provide our clients with a painless and highly productive new Office Product / Office Supply vendor selection process. Our fourfold attack ensures cost savings while providing guarantees for service and pricing integrity:

	Historical usage analysis, including overcharge discovery / resolution and item number conversion to manufacturer's codes.
	RFP / Bid writing.
	Complete RFP / Bid response review and analysis.
	Full implementation support and on-going vendor / program evaluations.

Program Redesign

You do not have to change vendors in order to get cost savings. The Ascher Group concentrates our analysis into three focused areas to ensure a cost effective program:

	Historical usage analysis and including overcharge discovery / resolution.
	Current pricing
	System controls and accounting
	on-going vendor / program evaluations.

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Our Services Include:

	Analysis of usage reports of bid items (aimed at 60% - 75% of usage).
	Historical analysis for contract usage and overcharges.
	Commodity analysis of paper and toner for cost savings.
	Construction of the contract list.
	Submission of credits from overcharges.
	Conversion of all proprietary bid item numbers (Staple and Office Depot) to manufacturers numbers (where possible).
	Construction of final RFP.
	Selection of bidders.
	Assembly of pricing comparison chart.
	Full RFP management support including determination of timeline, issuance of the RFP, support for on-site tours and full question and answer support.
	Detailed charting of all responses with ranking based upon stated goals.
	Total cost analysis for all vendor responses.
	Final bidder recommendation.
	Contract clause recommendations.
	Recommendation by for final vendor.
	Contract negotiation.
	Service deployment planning and verification.
	Training planning with vendor.
	Establishment of any in-plant procedures for staffing and on-going operation (if necessary).
	Initiation of billing and reporting standards.
	Final cost savings report.
	Ongoing procurement services for additional corporate acquisitions, commodity needs and non-coterminous services.
	Monthly invoice audits against contract rates, management of overcharges, credits confirmations and coding for general ledger codes.
	Quarterly service reviews for contract compliance and response time.
	Service provider interface for all contract issues.
	Ongoing system optimization.
	Ongoing Contract Management.