The great British obsession with ‘haggling’ is a thing of the past when it comes to buying IT, says Birmingham based technology services provider, Probrand.
Shopping around by telephone and manually comparing price and availability for the best deal on IT is an outdated false economy says research program.
Private and public sector organisations are throwing away time and money; estimated at over £2.7BN of IT budgets, £61.2M in unneeded phone calls and over £1BN in wages related to wasted time – IT managers are unnecessarily spending an average of 8 hours per week on managing IT procurement.
The report has concluded that this is the cost of unstructured, inefficient procurement processes and a more strategic best practice approach to procurement from the boardroom down will help organisations maximise the bottom line.
As part of an ongoing research program into thousands of IT buying organisations, Probrand has found IT buyers are spending a minimum of 8 hours per week ringing round suppliers and manually comparing individual product price and availability.
“Public sector organisations are calling a minimum of three suppliers in line with EU procurement guidelines, whilst in the private sector companies are calling anywhere between 1 and 10 suppliers,” said Probrand Marketing Director Stephen Bushell. “
