How do you take your average enterprise printing set up and then lower costs by half, save over Rs. 40 lakh a year, and ensure a 98% uptime? Ask Siemens and Ricoh.
Siemens, a world-class solution provider in the engineering and manufacturing segment, plays a key role in India’s quest for developing modern infrastructure. As a company, Siemens is committed to drive causes which maximise value and minimise costs.
But that’s not always easy when the company operates more than 50 offices in 25 cities and has to assimilate additional people and infrastructure after strategic acquisitions.
Tackling cost challenges
Siemens, a Rs. 12,000 crore company, was looking at scaling down its overall costs and managing core operations more effectively. Satish Kotgire, Head-IT infrastructure, Siemens, chose to strategically outsource non-core, yet vital areas of the company’s IT and business processes.
His team identified the opportunity to lower overhead costs in the company’s document and output management processes. “We wanted to centralise our IT spending for printers, copiers, consumables, and production sites with the goal of reducing operational and maintenance costs. This would eventually improve our cost structures related to document output,” says Kotgire.
Siemens is also committed to a multi-faceted environmental sustainability plan consisting of staff education, a reduction of solid waste, and decreased energy consumption and greenhouse gases.
Therefore, Kotgire and his team chose to implement a solution that could support Siemens’ environmental sustainability goals.
The task of managing equipment, printing and distribution, billing, reporting and meeting the needs of over 14,000 employees was daunting, and with no central means of managing overall costs. That’s why Siemens chose to partner with Ricoh. “We looked to Ricoh to leverage its expertise, experience and global presence to support us,” says Kotgire.
Know more at: http://newsletter.ricoh.co.in/ricoh-helps-siemens-drive-efficiency-and-sustainability-3/1951
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