ABS is a Solutions Company
Improve your business with innovative solutions that reduce costs, save time and improve workflows. All tailored for your business.
- Want to streamline how orders are filled or invoices are generated?
- Striving for better customer relations?
- Need to get control of printing costs?
- Concerned about security or regulatory compliance?
In addition to providing a diverse suite of office products, we focus on delivering solutions that help our customers meet their business objectives. Today's environment is competitive. Refining common business processes and improving document distribution methods can save time and money - and gives you an edge. Associated Business Systems, A Ricoh Company, develops customized solutions that will positively affect your business and the bottom line.
Our Business Solutions Solve Real Problems
Process Improvement: Improving Efficiency
Virtually every organization can identify one or more business processes that are too time-consuming, complex or error-prone. It's likely these processes involve documents. At the same time, many organizations may be in the midst of broader corporate efforts to improve business processes.
Associated Business Systems' solutions can help you streamline critical document processes and accomplish the same work in less time. Process Improvement is a systematic approach to examining, analyzing and redesigning any business process: how orders are filled, how invoices are generated, how new products are designed, how customer relations are maintained. The goal is to make each process as efficient as possible.
Electronic Document Management is one of the keys to process improvement. Many business processes involve documents, so improving document management has a direct impact on related business process efficiency.
ABS has a proven methodology for analyzing document workflow and identifying ways to improve it. Solutions may include hardware, software and services - all of which will help improve business practices.
Document Security
Information security is a key concern for many of our customers. It's imperative that sensitive information about strategic planning, marketing or new products, as well as confidential customer details not be stolen, leaked or unintentionally released to the public. Most of this information exists in the form of documents so ensuring document security is essential for any security strategy.
Associated Business Systems' solutions can help you ensure your information is secure without compromising productivity. Our solutions protect documents with:
- Secure storage and management
- Secure printing
- Network security
- Device security
Regulatory Compliance
Now more than ever, companies face numerous regulatory compliance issues, which affect how organizations manage documents. Associated Business Systems' Electronic Document Management supports regulatory compliance in several ways:
- Integrated annotations, hand-offs and reviews
- Version control of documents from year-to-year
- Security levels based on need to know
- Tracking multiple remote editors working on one document
- Organized archiving of work product files
- Sharing documents on a global basis
- Meeting legal document retention requirements
- Maintaining an audit trail as proof of senior management review
Total Cost of Ownership
Do you know the true cost to print a document?
It may surprise you to know that:
- 3-4% of total revenue is spent on paper output
- The average employee spends $3,400/year in printing
- 23% of IT staff time is spent on printer maintenance and repair
Total cost of ownership (TCO) refers to all the costs of a solution. Many customers do not realize how much money they spend on documents, and are unaware of the significant potential savings.
Associated Business Systems, A Ricoh Company, has a proven methodology for uncovering the costs of document workflow. Our Free Workflow Assessment process uncovers hidden costs and improvement opportunities. ABS solutions like Managed Print Services help you reduce costs by:
- Reducing spending on document output or lowering cost-per-page
- Redirecting document output to more efficient devices
- Integrating newer technologies to reduce or remove related costs (couriers, postage, outsourcing, etc)
Many companies don't have accurate information like: the number of copiers in the organization, how many devices are on the network, usage patterns, volume produced on the different types of devices and total costs. We offer a Free Workflow Assessment to help companies understand their current state and give them accurate data to make solid business decisions.
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