Consulting & Professional Services Documents are at the heart of every business process. No matter the market or the industry, documents drive the business functions that make every organization run and they have a material impact on productivity and profitability. Consider these facts:

Companies spend an average of 10–15% of revenues on documents, printing and related processes. Documents claim up to 60% of an average office worker's time. Upwards of 50% of documents are duplicates, 60% are typically obsolete.

These are just some of the costs related to documents. Few organizations understand how much they actually spend to create, print and manage documents. What’s more, they don’t realize the full impact document mismanagement and proliferation has on their ability to respond to customers and changing market needs, to comply with regulatory requirements and industry standards, and to mitigate potential risks.

PathForward, A Strategic Thought Partner
For nearly a century, Standard Register has helped clients deal with these issues. Today, through our PathForward Professional Services team, we’re bringing the best thinking, technologies and resources to help organizations streamline document management and optimize their print supply chains. And we do so from an independent perspective – from the client’s side of the table.

Working on your behalf, we take an integrated, holistic approach, looking across the enterprise at those areas where documents are produced. We analyze and benchmark printing practices, and consider the client culture. Then we establish customer-centric goals and an enterprise-wide document strategy to achieve them. Following a rigorous process, we help our clients improve their processes, measuring each step of the way to assure that what’s promised is delivered. As a result, our clients achieve 15-35% cost savings along with significant performance improvements across the enterprise.

PathForward is focused on improving business results through a wide range of consulting and professional services:

• Document assessments, process re-engineering & implementation services
• Document lifecycle services, design to archiving
• Strategic sourcing, vendor negotiations & management services
• Print supply chain optimization & management services
• Print Concierge® services
• Contracted print services for reprographics & data centers
• Technology analysis, integration & implementation services

For a deeper understanding of PathForward’s Enterprise Services, read more. Or, contact us now to discuss your document management and print supply chain challenges with an experienced PathForward professional.