paper purchasing
Time to evaluate your
paper purchasing
It is safe to say that paper
production and supply has had
a complicated history and the
future is expected to be just
as challenging. In light of recent
price increases, and with further
increases predicted in 2009,
there has never been a better
time to evaluate your paper
purchasing practices.
In 2008 we witnessed the closure of eliminating storage costs and ensuring that With prices on the rise, a printer is invariably
mills both in the UK and abroad; mills your capital is not tied-up in stock that has in a strong negotiating position; therefore you
that were casualties of rising fuel costs yet to be used. can be assured longer fixed pricing periods
and the artificially low prices that paper and more controlled pricing, which overall
manufacturers have been offering in order to
The sourcing and management of the
will minimise the increase in the cost of paper
secure business in a challenging market. With
purchase and storage of paper stocks is a
to you. Additionally, you can have peace of
mills continuing to struggle, the inevitable
vital and time-consuming job. Whilst there
mind that in an emergency situation such as
result will be less paper being produced, with
are some very real advantages to doing this
the Finnish paper strikes of 2007, a printer
the ultimate and inevitable effect that prices
in-house, publishers are increasingly beginning
will have the widest resources available and
will continue to rise.
to recognise that a printer is able to remove
will manage you through the crisis.
a vast amount of administrative time and
Making the strategic decision to consolidate effort spent managing paper purchase. Over and above the savings in costs, time and
your print and paper purchasing can provide energy; consolidating your print production
huge benefits to a publisher. Employing your and paper purchasing with your printer will
printer to co-ordinate, source and purchase serve to boost those all-important ‘green
your paper stocks saves time, frees up your credentials’. With environmental concerns
resources, and vastly reduces the capacity for being of utmost importance within the
error. By effectively creating a ‘one stop shop’ publishing industry, ordering your paper
for your print and paper purchase, this also through your printer will result in your
serves to improve the speed and quality of carbon footprint being reduced, as transport
the service to you. usage will decrease with deliveries not being
bespoke to your title.
With a printer well-positioned to deal
entirely with management of stocks, the For more information on how you
provision of paper reports, and who is able
An additional benefit of consolidating paper
can consolidate your print and paper
to source suitable stock alternatives where
purchase with a printer is that the publisher is
requirements with Headley Brothers, please
required, publishers are increasingly realising
able to draw on its printer’s vast knowledge
contact Paul Palmer, Paper Manager:
the value of placing their paper purchasing
of the paper business taking advantage of
01233 623131, paul.palmer@headley.co.uk.
responsibilities with their chosen printer.
the competitive rates that a printer will
demand from its paper suppliers due to the
In addition to the huge savings in
volume of paper it will be purchasing. The
administrative time, entrusting your paper printer is also well-equipped to manage all
purchasing to your printer will result in of the administrative aspects such as paper
a significant saving in storage costs. For reporting, negotiation and
example, you may currently be forced providing a consultative,
to purchase and then store 20 tonnes of ‘solutions based’, approach
paper at one time, which is then used at with the aim of creating a
4-tonne intervals. By ordering your paper product that is produced
through your printer, you are able to pay as efficiently and cost-
retrospectively for what you use, thereby effectively as possible.
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