Alice Beattie Consultancy aims to help its clients – whether publishers, paper manufacturers or printers – achieve the best results possible, whether they are looking to improve quality, customer service, business processes or price.
Alice has spent over 30 years ensuring the cost-effective, timely, quality production of books and high-profile magazines - including the related procurement of paper, print and distribution. This wealth of experience, expertise and knowledge can now be harnessed to provide clear benefits to your company.
Alice provides knowledgeable, practical advice and support with paper and print procurement; planning, running or responding to tenders; identifying and applying best practice to processes for producing printed media; managing suppliers; training of internal teams to better support clients; auditing of and support with re-engineering business processes.
Typical projects undertaken to date include:
• Auditing print prices (ensuring that the client was paying best-in-class prices for work done)
• Identifying waste in the supply chain; recommending ways to reduce and control it
• Establishing best practice in the processes used by a magazine company to procure its print
• Auditing the procurement contracts for a publisher, evaluating whether these were appropriate for the client’s business vis-a-vis term, duration, notice
• Helping to identify potential clients for a supplier planning to expand its business
• Assisting in the construction of a market research questionnaire aimed at the publishing community
• Support with evaluating and selecting suppliers; helping to monitor and manage relationships