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We bid and buy for our clients to reduce costs on every transaction DataSource started with a focus first and foremost on client needs - and that led us to select an outsourced business model. Today, we remain completely client-centric and outsource 100% of traditional printed product requirements utilizing our iSupply360™ technologies. Bottom-line: This approach saves our clients money. Through our expert, highly-qualified OneSource™ Certified Supplier Network, we meet your printing needs. Each job is bid to leverage the overcapacity in the market and best match a project with a supplier. Our expert sourcing staff can fulfill anything whether it's required domestically or internationally. This approach is of course, transparent to our clients. We take responsibility for getting the right product to the right place on time, every time: providing quality products and superior services. Solutions are customized to best serve the commercial, restaurant/hospitality, and automotive industries.

For non-traditional print, DataSource Digital On-Demand printing; services bring together industry-leading experience, strong technology expertise, services and tools to optimize the way documents are managed. We help our clients reduce total cost of ownership, maximize efficiency, retain compliance, enhance security and improve their business processes.

Key Areas of Procurement and Sourcing Services:

Procurement Management
DataSource provides procurement management services as part of our print supply chain management programs. This includes traditional print, Digital On Demand printing as well as a full scope of Promotional Products. These services cover those items included in the client agreement and can be augmented or expanded at any time.

Certified Supplier Network Usage
DataSource certifies a subset of our suppliers based on cost and quality considerations. Additional savings potential is created by utilizing DataSource's Certified Supplier Network. All suppliers follow DataSource Quality Assurance standards and measurements.

Certification of Client Network
DataSource's procurement and sourcing team can utilize its internal processes to create a proprietary, client-specific supplier network. This approach combines the benefits of a client-directed network with DataSource's quality-driven certification approach.

Full Supply Chain Management
DataSource is experienced in managing a client's entire indirect supply chain and can manage that extended supplier network on behalf of clients. This approach takes full advantage of DataSource's broad contracting and supplier management experience as well as providing the opportunity to leverage pricing.

Consortium Building
For spend categories specific to an industry or business, coops or consortiums are built to assist clients and others in the industry in leveraging their buying power. Consortiums are capable of changing the economics for supplies (direct and indirect) in favor of purchasers.

Total Procurement Management
DataSource can provide fully outsourced procurement management services to clients.


 
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