Core Service Components
Core Service Components
Supply Management agreements are customisable to each customer’s unique requirements.
Our service includes:
Sourcing & Procurement
Required items are procured according to best practice principles.
A pool of approved suppliers is established by our team of procurement specialists and regular reviews ensure that standards are met.
- Ensures competitive prices, maximisation of economies of scale, procurement specialists
- Achieves consistent high quality
- Improves corporate identity control
- Total transparency through supplier comparatives
Warehousing & Distribution
Items are received and stored at our secure warehouses which operate under a sophisticated warehouse management system.
- Provides for the storage of bulk and individual items
- Facilitates the immediate despatch of picked items
- Reduces ordering errors through a barcode system that ensures compliance with ‘unit of measure’
Online Catalogue & Ordering
Lithotech offers a customised online ordering platform that is accessible by branches and outlets nationwide.
- Simplifies the placing of orders of non-trading items
- Limits items available for selection to only those approved, avoiding costly substitutes
- Provides a secure login for each branch
- Ensures effective workflow-based order authorisation
Analysis & Reporting
Lithotech’s custom developed software analyses and interprets ERP data.
- Identifies slow moving items, excessive usage and wastage
- Monitors usage trends and anomalies by item, branch and region
- Tracks stock levels and average usage
- Improves procurement planning
- Reduces working capital
- Cost management reporting
- Historical procurement comparative reports
- Saving and overspend reports
- Improves bottom line and budgeting
Print Management
Business print products are designed and manufactured to be incorporated in a business’ process flow. Print management offers a roadmap for total cost reduction and guaranteed cost savings through effective design and construction and the implementation of a managed procurement plan.
- Avoiding stock obsolescence through effective version control
- Standardisation of design for most economic manufacturing
- Control over corporate ID standards
- Eliminating wasteful print spend resulting from economy of scale procurement focus
