Managed Print Services (MPS) goes beyond cost savings, transforming your organization in surprising new ways. Here’s 26 telltale signs that an MPS assessment can help your business.

2. Managed Print Services (MPS)
has the potential to not only save you
money, but transform the way you
work altogether.
From cost savings to process considerations,
check out these modern business challenges
to discover if an MPS assessment can help
your organization.
Cost-Based
Drivers
Governance
Issues
Location-Based
Challenges
Strategy, Process
and Market
Considerations

3. Cost-Based Drivers

4. 1 Escalating costs of existing print infrastructure
2 Pressure to reduce business costs in general
Cost-Based Drivers

5. 3 Increase spend predictability
4 Cost reduction mandates to reduce print spend specifically
5 Balancing operating expense versus capital spend
Cost-Based Drivers

6. 6
Identifying hidden costs of equipment,
archiving and business processes
7 Pressure to improve revenue and margins
Cost-Based Drivers

7. Governance Issues

8. 8 Increase spend predictability
8
Lack of understanding of
existing print infrastructure
9
No ability to track and
measure print environment
10
Managing large population of
unconnected output devices
Governance Issues

9. 11
Managing multi-vendor environment with
multiple supplier contracts
12 High concentration of desktop devices
Governance Issues

10. Governance Issues
13
Current Managed Print Services contract
ending in 12–18 months
14 Struggling to meet sustainability goals

11. Location-Based
Challenges

12. 15
Integrating systems due to mergers,
acquisitions or consolidation
16
Newly merged organizations seeking
efficiency and savings
Location-Based Challenges

13. 17
Distributed offices and
multiple locations
18
Autonomous departments
making their own
buying decisions
19
Growing mobile workforce or
widely distributed workers
Location-Based Challenges

14. Strategy, Process
and Market Considerations

15. 20 More efficiency in paper-intensive business processes
21
Customer needs that are creating new document or
workflow requirements
22 Little understanding of how printed documents get used
Strategy, Process and Market Considerations

16. 23
Print infrastructure
not aligned to
business needs
24
Increasing focus
on operational
efficiency due to
competitive pressures
Strategy, Process and Market Considerations

17. 25
Highly regulated, document-intensive industry such as
financial services and healthcare
26 High degree of security and compliance requirements
Strategy, Process and Market Considerations

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19. 1. Escalating costs of existing
print infrastructure
2. Pressure to reduce
business costs in general
3. Increase spend
predictability
4. Cost reduction mandates
to reduce print spend
specifically
5. Balancing operating
expense versus
capital spend
6. Identifying hidden costs of
equipment, archiving and
business processes
7. Pressure to improve
revenue and margins
Cost-Based
Drivers
Governance
Issues
8. Lack of understanding of
existing print infrastructure
9. No ability to track and
measure print environment
10. Managing large
population of unconnected
output devices
11. Managing multi-vendor
environment with multiple
supplier contracts
12. High concentration of desktop
devices
13. Current Managed
Print Services contract
ending in 12–18 months
14. Struggling to meet
sustainability goals
Location-
Based
Challenges
15. Integrating systems due
to mergers, acquisitions
or consolidation
16. Newly merged organizations
seeking efficiency
and savings
17. Distributed offices and
multiple locations
18. Autonomous departments
making their own
buying decisions
19. Growing mobile
workforce or widely
distributed workers
Strategy,
Process
and Market
Considerations
20. More efficiency in
paper-intensive
business processes
21. Customer needs that are
creating new document or
workflow requirements
22. Little understanding of how
printed documents get used
23. Print infrastructure not
aligned to business needs
24. Growing mobile workforce or
widely distributed workers
25. Highly regulated,
document-intensive industry
such as financial services
and healthcare
26. High degree of security and
compliance requirements
©2015 Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved. Xerox® and Xerox Design® are trademarks of Xerox Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.