GREENOffice, established in 1997, is a leader in evolving sustainable document solutions. Its purpose is to make business more efficient and sustainable by helping individuals and businesses reduce physical, financial and operational waste. “In order to achieve this, we design, develop and implement an agreed print strategy based on clearly defined goals and objectives,” explains Green Office managing director, Wayne Fyvie.

VALUE PROPOSITION

The aim of these custom-designed, holistic strategies is to help each client meet their specific ambitions with regard to reducing costs while improving the end-user experience and overall business operations. Green Office’s value proposition includes engaging with each client to assess the print “habitat”, devising a strategy to convert “data on paper” to digital data, and create a flexible commercial and billing structure. The company’s execution approach encompasses control fortification, cost containment and/or avoidance as well as change optimisation. “Our Managed Print Services (MPS) solutions encompass a number of different aspects all working together to monitor, manage and streamline a business’s document environment,” continues Fyvie. “This translates into tangible technology outcomes that include a centralised asset management platform across all vendors, a centralised billing system across all vendors, centralised vendor performance analytics and service level tracking, ‘authenticate anywhere’ print release, device purchase attrition and apportion, centralised call logging and first-line support across all devices. “Real benefits to our clients include the outsourcing of specific data services and responsibilities, data analytics on user print behaviour, conversion to digital data processes – most importantly, a bottom line decrease in overall costs.”

MILESTONES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Green Office’s goal is to reduce the number of pages that each of its customers prints by at least 20 percent. Many of its MPS clients have achieved significant savings milestones. The following list provides some examples:

1. Cost savings R 14 946 433 saved by Green Office clients in 2015.

2. Waste * Reduction in / avoidance of waste – 3 806kg (Assisted clients to duplex print – paper not printed, therefore waste reduced / avoided.) * Waste diverted from landfill and recycled – 397 130kg (Collected clients’ used empty cartridges for recycling.)

3. Water Litres of water saved – 640 898 litres (Assisted clients in reducing paper and electricity usage and supplied clients with remanufactured print cartridges.)

4. Energy/Electricity Energy saved – 938 508 kWh (Assisted clients in reducing paper and electricity usage, and supplied clients’ with remanufactured print cartridges.)

5. Carbon footprint CO2e saved – 1 363 599kg CO2e (Assisted clients in reducing paper and electricity usage while supplying clients with remanufactured print cartridges and collected clients used empty cartridges for recycling.)

6. Natural resources Litres of oil saved – 158 096 litres (Supplied clients with remanufactured cartridges.)

7. Social responsibility R 177 010 – Donated to various charities through encouraging clients to donate the value of their empty cartridges to charity.

For further information on how Green Office can make your business more efficient and sustainable, call the team on 031 702 3050 or visit the website at www.greenoffice.co.za