How You Can Save On Your Purchasing

HOW TO SAVE 10%, 20%, 30% ON YOUR PURCHASING г EVERY BUSINESS HAS ONE THING IN COMMON: The desire to make their budgets go further. But many companies struggle to see how they can do this when they have already found the lowest priced supplier. TIME TO SAVE The tips & tricks that will allow you to do more for less and keep everyone happy whilst also helping the environment 66 With time to save, you are going to be able to make a real difference to your expenditure on all those things that end up in the bin. 29 Sam Gompels, Managing Director, Gompels Healthcare Ltd TIME TO SAVE - TAKE A FRESH LOOK KEEP IT SIMPLE There are few Be careful not to truely innovative get taken in by the cleaning or hygiene products on the market latest sales man's wheeze of cost savings Free dispensers Every time you fill NO SUCH THING AS A really are not FREE LUNCH up a free dispenser you will be paying for it in the product price free If one shot of a product works then two must Work out how long things should last and make sure that USE WELL be better they do The big brands can cost double to pay for all that or triple the price of own label BRAND ALERT Do you really want marketing and advertising? Try own label 66 The Gompels own brand products are designed to have the same specification as the branded equivalent without the brand premium. Is it really worth paying two or three times the price for a pretty packet? 99 BUILDING A BUSINESS CASE - TIME TO SAVE WITH TIME TO SAVE, COMPANIES CAN EXPECT THREE CORE BENEFITS: %3D 10 00 10 00 LESS WASTAGE IMPROVED USE BIG SAVINGS WHERE DOES THE MONEY GET WASTED? Throwing away (or taking home) part Hand towels that Using concentrated | chemicals at 2, 3 or come out in clumps | rather than one by | 4 times the recommended | dosing used toilet rolls because one. they might CAUTION rates. run out. | Using a highly absorbent product | Getting locked into a fancy dispenser Spraying polish behind the radiator | when a lower | where the to make the absorbency | would do the job. room refills cost | 3 times the price. smell nice. | KEY METRICS TO MEASURE - TIME TO SAVE - 5 1 3 Are you really getting what How you How much Your cost per resident or site per day Your overall you are compare to similar sites you are budget on a monthly basis paying for products paying for? ARE YOU ALERT...ED? If you don't have time to keep on top of everything, there is a solution... Alerts are emails that appear like magic in your inbox and tell you when things are not going as expected I ALERT! Your monthly expenditure has exceeded the budget ALERT! No order has been placed this week you sent by £999.99 More than 30 packets of gloves ALERT! Persil washing powder has been ordered on your ALERT! have been ordered this week account STEP 1: Get a grip - look at your STEP 2: summary reports of what you purchased over the last 12 months. STEP 3: Find out the products that you never knew you were ordering. Swap branded products for unbranded. BULK BUY STEP 4: Compare your expenditure to others, see where you are higher, and target those areas first. STEP 5: Watch the products being used, then decide if they are appropriate and being used appropriately. STEP 6: Take advantage of weekly offers and bulk buys - they will save you even more. 66 Stop planning to get started, and get started instead. Look for continuous improvement rather than perfection from the start. 99 GET STARTED WITH TIME TO SAVE 10 00 Gompels HealthCare give you all the tools to lower your expenditure without compromising quality It's there, it's available, now is the time to start using it PROVEN METHODS, CASE STUDIES, COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES AND EXPERT GUIDANCE. GOMPELS HEALTHCARE HELPS THOUSANDS OF BUSINESSES JUST LIKE YOURS TO LOWER THEIR EXPENDITURE. HOW DO THE SAVINGS STACK UP? BENCHMARKING FORMULARY COST CONTROL REPORTING Benchmarking is a fantastic tool around which saving technique, to bring people together and get them thinking about usage policies and what is reasonable. Active use of reports at all levels will make product use and expenditure transparent, predictable and controllable. This is a proven cost eliminating the use of expensive brands and non essential items. Pot tial savings of 5% a Potential savings of 5 - 7% a year. Potential savings of 20% a year. year. WHAT YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET FROM YOUR SUPPLIER MONTHLY PRODUCTS & VALUE REPORTS ALERTS FORMULARY Packets used by month V Expenditure by category V Cost per person per day v Online, by email, on paper Automatic Recommended list of emails that keep products which determines the products you up to date that can be ordered 99.7% of products are in stock so you don't have to keep large stocks V 5pm late cut off for next day delivery & the ability to add to your order during the day Delivery any day, everyday of the week Monday to Friday so that you can order when you need to top up Handy guides to tendering & purchasing gompels Twin packs giving you lower prices, less boxes, less wastage and more of what you need healthcare www.gompels.co.uk HAMPOO