Apogee : enabling NHS healthcare supply chain efficiency
Apogee : enabling NHS healthcare supply chain efficiency
Discussing the contractual benefits for Guy ’ s and St Thomas ’ NHS Foundation Trust , Matthew Hale provides details of Apogee ’ s partnership in healthcare
Apogee Corporation , an HP company , provides managed workplace and print services to the public sector and wider corporate healthcare environments . Its partnership with the Trust allows Apogee to supply , monitor , and maintain NHS printers and related machines to minimise component stock levels and ensure print machines work at their optimum .
Creating a regular and cost-effective print supply
“ We were able to achieve the savings that we ’ ve delivered to Guy ’ s and St Thomas ’ through a due diligence project management programme where we have looked at their current infrastructure ,” says Matthew Hale , Regional Sales Manager for Healthcare at Apogee .
In analysing the Trust ’ s technology ecosystem , Apogee is “ able to design an optimal solution based on their current requirements . This led us to be able to reduce the number of devices and the amount of volume going through the account that , in turn , drives out the contractual savings .”
“ We take that headache away from IT departments because every device that will sit within the Trust , ranging from a single function desktop printer to a print room device , will be managed and supported by Apogee from top to bottom .”
The process of procuring managed services
As a subsidiary of HP , the corporation leverages its digital capabilities to respond quickly to the needs of its clients and , in the case of Guy ’ s and St Thomas ’, alleviate any unnecessary strain on the workforce . “ We ’ re able to predict what that carbon efficiency gain will be , by the nature of the auditing that we ’ ve done ,” Hale says .
“ With the redesign process that we went through , where we ’ ve rationalised that amount of machines down , we can figure out — based on data and kilowatts of energy — how much that fleet will cost to run over a three to five year period ,” Hale explains . “ Because we ’ re underpinning the fleet with environmentally friendly devices from the HP range , it allows us to achieve even more beneficial carbon savings for the trust as well .”
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