London, April 2007 -- IKON Office Solution (UK) Launch IKONstore a unique online consumables, stationery and IT procurement site.
Following almost a year’s development and significant infrastructure investment IKONstore has been unveiled as IKON’s eCommerce platform. Fully integrated into the supply chain and IKON’s central Oracle application, IKONstotre is specifically designed to help organisations rationalise and control their consumables spend.
Unlike most eCommerce sites IKONstore is focused on contracted rather than transactional business. This is designed to help organisations by centralising expenditure and management. IKONstore removes the need for items such as consumables and stationary to be purchased locally, which is often done with little discount and through multiple suppliers. This fragmented approach not only erodes buying power, but generates separate invoices that each require administering; one of the most time consuming and costly processes within any organisation.
IKONstore is a unique procurement tool that has been designed to be tailored to individual organisations specific purchasing requirements. Using catalogues companies can select which products are visible to their staff, access order histories, and even set up authorisation request so that new users are not able to order without approval.
The key benefits of IKONstore are:
■ Centralised Pricing - maximises buying power from a single source
■ Single Invoice - reduces costs of processing multiple invoices
■ Company Account – removes the need for credit cards
■ Customisable Range – control what your staff can buy
■ Audit trails - for management reporting and tracking
IKONstore is now live and available to all IKON customers.
“IKONstore is a very important focus for us and an excellent extended offering for our customers. Not only does it provide a huge portfolio of products available at extremely competitive prices, but it will also allows a centralised approach to purchasing consumables. This will enable organisations to control the process, rationalise their supplier base, ensure their employees are purchasing the correct consumables, enhance economies of scale and reduce the administrative costs associated with processing multiple orders.” – Gary Downey, Associate Marketing Director, IKON
IKON Office Solutions, Inc. (www.ikon.com), the world's largest independent channel for copier, printer and MFP technologies, delivers integrated document management solutions and systems, enabling customers worldwide to improve document workflow and increase efficiency. IKON integrates best-in-class systems from leading manufacturers, such as Canon, Ricoh, Konica Minolta, Kyocera Mita, EFI and HP, and document management software from companies like Captaris, Kofax, eCopy and others, to deliver tailored, high-value solutions implemented and supported by its global services organization--IKON Enterprise Services. With fiscal year 2006 revenue of $4.2 billion, IKON has approximately 25,000 employees in over 400 locations throughout North America and Western Europe.
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