NowSource
When evaluating overall print spending, companies should consider the efficiency of their purchasing team as well as the cost of the printed goods. NowSource allows you to monitor and improve both!
The NowSource solution streamlines the print procurement process. NowSource creates efficiencies by managing communication, enforcing standards, and controlling workflow. Allowing your purchasing team to store all project data and creative files in a central location, score supplier performance and share projects with other team members will decrease time spent in the RFQ process.
NowSource also gives management the ability to track and monitor communication and spending during the project, and conduct a post-project cost analysis. You'll have the power to track and analyze important purchasing data relevant to your business processes and, based on historical spending analysis, have the power to negotiate printing from any of your suppliers.
Features
Centralized Supplier Management
With NowSource, you choose your suppliers -they are not dictated to you. There are no restrictions on the number of users your organization can have in the system, and no per-seat license fees.
NowSource makes establishing and maintaining preferred vendor programs a breeze! We do not lock you into a set of vendors that you have never worked with or have no idea about their quality of work. With NowSource, you add your vendors and associate them to your product templates. We believe that your application should be a tool to improve supplier communication, not force you to use a set a vendors with whom you have never worked. In addition, your print suppliers are never charged a "Transaction Fee" to use NowSource. They are your suppliers and your relationship, not ours! Add as many suppliers as you like and never have to worry about your pricing being marked up because of hidden fees.
SAAS Business Model
Since NowSource is Software as a Service (SaaS), your license fee entitles you access to all software updates. NowSource is constantly undergoing improvement, which gives you the ability to stay on top of the latest developments in the purchasing process.
Since NowSource is Web based, there is no need for interaction with your IT department -NowSource is ready to go on day one! NowSource is a hosted system which means that we maintain the application and the servers for the system. There is no need for you to do upgrades or install new software! We are supported by an in-house hosting staff that responds to our customers' needs 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
RFQ Business Process Management
NowSource allows the print buyer to manage the entire procurement process. From specification gathering to purchasing, NowSource allows the buyer to manage the process and gives you the flexibility to adjust the process to fit your unique organizational needs.
NowSource also reduces production errors by allowing the buyer to gather specifications, submit Request for Quotes to suppliers, and allowing you to submit a purchase order directly to the chosen supplier with all of the specifications completed. In addition, this allows further tracking and reporting within NowSource to track project costs against budget. NowSource purchase orders can be integrated with any ERP system, however this is always an additional cost and development issue, because each ERP system is unique to its organization and requires an understanding of how your ERP is set-up.
Reporting
NowSource features built-in reporting tools that take your data and generate useful and meaningful charts and graphs. With this information, you will have the power to analyze current projects and make faster decisions about future purchasing.
NowSource allows you to report on virtually any information that is captured in the system. As an administrator, you can even build reports to meet your specific needs and then choose to add those reports to the system to allow users to run those reports - or you can schedule the reports to run overnight and then e-mail them to yourself or a supervisor on a scheduled basis. NowSource reporting is extremely flexible and allows you to retrieve the data for reporting in third-party systems.
Benefits
Return on Investment
Our customers report saving 5 to 15% on their overall print spend by using NowSource. This gives them the capital and flexibility they need to grow their business.
Entire Spend Visibility
When evaluating overall print spend, companies should consider the efficiency of their purchasing team as well as the cost of the printed goods. NowSource lets you monitor and improve both!
Your purchasing team saves time spent in the RFQ process because NowSource helps them streamlines print procurement.
Negotiating power with suppliers improves because NowSource makes it easy to analyze project costs and historical spending.
Product Standardization
NowSource allows you to customize then standardize templates to fit your business flow and to ensure each supplier is sent the same specifications. This eliminates rogue purchasing and guarantees you take advantage of volume discounts.
NowSource allows the administrator to build their own product templates with attributes and values that are specific to their needs. We can also provide a set of pre-built templates that are ready for use and can be modified later as you find areas for improvement.
Enhanced Purchasing Power
Utilize NowSource's power to generate an RFQ to one vendor or several. With its customizable pricing structure, you can entertain numerous bids, evaluate them in an "apples to apples" setting, and base your selection on price, quality, and relationship.
CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS
"Before we had NowPrint fully operational, we barely made our equipment lease payments, now we have more than doubled the agencies we work with inside the county and we're way over break even."
John Butler
Acting Administrator, Prince George County Government