Lithotech’s Supply Management service enables branches, retail outlets and other remote business units to operate more efficiently.
It facilitates decentralised ordering under central control and reduces operating costs.
Our Supply Management Service
Our Service
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
How Supply Management Works
Supply Management is the one-stop, all-in-one service that leaves you to get on with business.
Procurement
Procurement specialists source the best products at the most competitive prices.
Branch Orders
Branches log in to catalogue, browse and place orders at agreed prices.
Order Authorisation
Branch orders are electronically sent for authorisation by a pre-approved authoriser. The authoriser logs in and approves or amends the order and issues a purchase order (or accepts a system-generated purchase order).
Order Processing
Orders are received and processed, and items are picked and packed.
Order Distribution
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.
Analysis & Reporting
Cost management reports are sent to customer head office for further analysis and informed decision making.
Online Ordering
Built around our proprietary procurement technology, Lithotech Online – a web-based, electronic procurement solution for central and remote users – is a secure, integrated ordering system that enhances good procurement practices.
Lithotech Online has been designed with our customers in mind – it is an easy-to-use system that is flexible, yet completely reliable. Never has there been an easier way for branches and outlets to place orders for non-trading items that are essential for operating efficiently.
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| Secure Login | Catalogue & Prices | Shopping Basket Functionality | Electronic Order Approval | Visibility of Stock Status | ERP Integration | Security |
| User name, password and account number | Print and other non-trading items | Visual product images and easy to use | Routing of orders to approvers for authorisation | Indicates item availability | No data capture (speeds up service and eliminates data errors) | Data fully secured and protected in a vault |
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| Secure Login | Catalogue & Prices | Shopping Basket Functionality | Electronic Order Approval |
| User name, password and account number | Print and other non-trading items | Visual product images and easy to use | Routing of orders to approvers for authorisation |
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| Visibility of Stock Status | ERP Integration | Security |
| Indicates item availability | No data capture (speeds up service and eliminates data errors) | Data fully secured and protected in a vault |
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Print Management
Lithotech's "Less Paper Strategy" reduces the total cost to create, print and manage paper documents through effective design and construction and the implementation of a managed procurement plan.
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Campaign Management
Campaign Management is a specialised area of Supply Management that spans the entire lifecycle of a marketing campaign – from inception to launch to evaluation – and offers planning, distributing, tracking and analysis of marketing campaign elements.
Types of products include display material (such as banners, flags and window graphics), printed collateral (such as leaflets, brochures and handouts), gifts and giveaways and special uniform items (such as T-shirts, caps and aprons).
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Using custom-developed Campaign Manager software, we ensure that campaign deadlines are met and that stock obsolescence and write-offs are minimalised.
Campaign Manager standardises processes, improving distribution performance and speed to market. It is a complete logistics system designed to facilitate the effective and efficient distribution of printed, display and marketing materials to multiple branches.
Campaign Set-up
The campaign or project manager sets timelines, assigns elements and allocates these to multiple destinations.
Element Production
Allocated quantities are consolidated into a production/print schedule and disseminated to approved suppliers.
Receiving & Warehousing
Suppliers deliver to the warehouse where elements are received in and allocated to a rack to await the other elements.
Preparation & Distribution
Elements are prepared, picked, packed and distributed to the designated end points.
Campaign Manager enables planners and management to track the logistics and production performance of each campaign, paying particular attention to waste, supplier, distribution centre and courier performance.
The system provides real-time visibility of each process and its progress in line with the campaign/project timelines, allowing key stakeholders to focus on areas requiring particular attention.
Once campaigns/projects end, stock-on-hand figures are automatically made available to campaign planners in order to facilitate the disposal of any excess material.
Get in touch
For more information about Lithotech and our comprehensive Supply Management service, please contact us.