A number of environmental and sustainable benefits were achieved through changes in how they purchased their office supplies from Banner.
The Service:
As part of a wider review of its service offering, Banner presented a proposal to a leading Facilities Management provider to show how by making changes to the way it purchased workplace supplies, several environmental and sustainable benefits could be achieved.
Banner’s previous service offering was based around a next-day delivery model, with no minimum limit on spend or number of orders placed by users. Whilst very customer friendly, it resulted in an ineffective model, often delivering to the same locations multiple times each week.
The Product:
Through Banner’s exclusive tool, Green OPTIMISA, we were able to analyse all the metrics behind the account to produce an optimised model, making the service more environmentally effective, by lowering the CO2, fuel, paper, water, electricity and transit packaging used in delivering goods.
Positive impact of using recycled paper:
With the support from the customer, Banner also implemented a policy of moving from standard, virgin grade copier paper to a 100% recycled option through their partner, Steinbeis. By not using virgin grade paper, this is an equivalent saving of: