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For over 30 years, Office Essentials has provided everything needed to run a business effectively and efficiently.
Everything we do is guided by our core values, which prioritise our customers. We offer everything from stationery and computer supplies to furniture, janitorial, technology, promotional merchandise, workwear, health and safety, printing, and much more, including a full furniture design and fit-out service.
We understand that saying "it's not about us, it's about you" is easy, but we truly believe it and care deeply. Our philosophy and culture encourage all employees to do what is best for our customers; we go above and beyond to alleviate your concerns. Simply put, we want to make your life easier!
Office Essentials services include:
Office Essentials prides itself on exceeding customer’ expectations and building strong and lasting relationships. We don’t just provide business goods and services but embed ourselves within customer operations so we can provide valuable consultancy services, covering all business areas, which help to achieve our customers business goals – driving operational cost reductions, efficiency and improvements.
Our approach is to work proactively with our customers to identify both operational and industry practice innovation that will in turn drive improvements for our customers.
To place orders, please contact Phil Cantrill via:
Email - phil@office-essentials.co.uk
Tel - 01623 575 826
Mobile: 07368 454 784
Specific areas of review that Office Essentials can support with:
Cost reduction:
Identifying alternative, lower cost, good quality options
Identifying core list rationalisation options – using scale to drive price improvements
Reviewing the potential to consider our ‘own brand’ of leading products as opposed to named brands. Effectively, switching the brand to save
Rationalising purchasing behaviour at a customer level through calculating the end-to-end cost of servicing customer demand, from ordering to payment, and then modelling the reduction in costs if fewer low value orders are processed, or scheduled/consolidated deliveries introduced
To help customers clearly see the benefits of considering a ‘brand’ switch, and as part of our consultative approach, we have been able to demonstrate significant savings to our customers on typical every-day products, without compromising on quality.
Initiative is one of the largest own brands in the UK. Widely recognised for great quality and excellent value, Initiative provides customers with a cost-effective alternative. Our range currently has over 400 products and meets many requirements. We can offer a “switch & save” approach to present options for your consideration.
Environmental Improvements:
We can increase awareness and uptake of more green and sustainable products through:
Identifying products that are more sustainable
Undertaking Green Reviews as part of our service
Demonstrate the benefits of buying sustainable products
Utilising our unique identifier to clearly show products which offer improved ‘green’ credentials
Operational Improvements:
Low value order reviews – low value orders increase costs. Every order takes valuable time to raise, pick, pack, deliver, receive, put away and invoice. They also mean additional deliveries, which have an adverse impact on the environment.
Scheduled Deliveries: Whist our standard service level is next-day, there are operational benefits to moving to a scheduled delivery approach – with deliveries to each site on pre-arranged days each week. This has a dramatic reduction on the environmental impact of deliveries and reduces the internal cost to receive them / put them away within each customer location and process invoices.
Supply Chain Management:
The last few years of economic uncertainty and unprecedented global issues, such as Brexit, Covid and resulting price increases, the war in Ukraine and increased Middle East turmoil, has created unstable supply routes across numerous categories. Through our consultancy led approach and in consultation with customers and our manufacturer relationships, we have adapted quickly to the changing dynamics offering viable and sustainable solutions.
We recognise and understand that every customer has different goals and business drivers, so our consultancy service is a tailored support programme that fits your individual needs.
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