Accounting & Cost monitoring

Target organization

Situation

Recommended Accounting Mode

Benefits

Modern office environment with different levels of printer usage

I want to have stricter control over office resource expenditures.

I do not need accounting for shared accounts.

Accounting groups

+ Personal quotas monitoring pages.

When you have more transparent and strict boundaries for resource usage in the office, it's easier to optimize.

According to studies, 45% of the paper printed in an office ends up in the trash ^[4].

Copy rooms

I want to allocate a specific sum of resources and let my staff use this amount per time period for printing on one or several devices.

Accounting groups

+ Personal quotas monitoring cost.

Allowance of money for predefined MFPs in copy rooms with settings configured to spend more economically and in a unified way helps narrow down expenditures ^[6].

Guest printing

Client spaces, hospitals, co-working

I want to let registered users perform small or middle-sized occasional print jobs.

Accounting groups

+ Personal quotas per person and no group quotas.

Redirecting occasional guest printing to actual employees of an office may result in slowing down the tempo of office work. It’s much easier to give access to guests themselves and let them use printing and scanning devices in a controlled way which can lessen the workload of staff.

Company with many departments in different locations

I want to set up a large variety of accounts with different accounting methods and allow users to share allowances or have only personal accounts with personal quotas.

Cost Centers

+ Personal or group quotas monitoring either pages or cost.

Time spent on delays while trying to fix a stuck printer costs money. If you set up your devices with the most required and used workflows with a flexible account scheme, you’re likely to see a productivity boost ^[3].

Primary Education

I want a simple solution to allow younger students to print their work but remain in control of expenditure.

Cost Centers

+ Quota group shared.

Introducing shared services can help to save up to 25 % of your expenditure^[1].

Higher Education

I want school staff to be able to print and copy hand-outs before class quickly and range the paper consumption depending on the class grade (using duplex, black and white, stapling during printing).

Cost centers

+ Multiple quota accounts.

When your organization is large, the task of controlling expenditure becomes more complex as the individual circumstances of usage can be very diverse. Here some organizations adopt a Cloud-first approach and standardize the usage of other applications. This helps to reap the benefits of a flexible environment while still maintaining accurate accounting. While many private and public sector organizations choose cloud services for increasing agility, flexibility, and scalability, they also experience cost efficiencies over time. To achieve cost savings, perform strict cloud governance or risk seeing increases in infrastructure and application costs ^[5].

University Education

I want a solution in which different staff categories and students can:

• print or copy with standardized output.

• scan documents to the cloud.

• get statistical information on which students or departments use certain devices more.

Cost centers

1. Cost center with personal quotas set for monitoring more expensive options (e.g. color).

2. Cost center dedicated to scan monitoring or as a part of multiple personal quotas.

3. Cost center multiple quotas with no restrictions applied when the quota maximum is depleted.

You can combine diverse accounting schemes with other services like Robotic Process Automation (RPA). If your internal IT department needs statistical info, you can set up accounts that monitor just who used which account and add RPA to processes:

• Extracting information from invoices.

• Sending automated communications.

• Submitting reports to executives.

• Inventory processing.

This allows for more time to perform thought-intensive tasks. Companies that take advantage of this cost-saving initiative will have to invest less in future hiring of staff to complete duties that RPA can easily accomplish ^[2].

Target organization

Situation

Recommended Accounting Mode

Benefits

Guest unauthorized printing

Railway stations, airports, municipality offices

I want to let unregistered users be able to print occasionally and be billed on the spot.

Accounting groups

+ Credit with payment by vouchers

It’s important to save your clients' time in a busy setting such as an airport or a municipality office.

Therefore, printing should be an easy part of the experience, not a daunting one.

You can set up print kiosks to print jobs from unregistered users and bill them on the spot.

Time is of the essence and can help heighten the overall satisfaction rate of your organization by up to 60% ^[9].

Ministry worker in their office

I would like to allocate a number of pages per person for some period of time and each person in the system must use only one account on all occasions to reduce the time between spooling the job and retrieving the ready job from the device.

Accounting groups

+ Personal Quota account monitoring pages

Precise accounting is vital when managing a large multi-department organization.

Unifying a portfolio of 3rd-party services that provide the opportunity to track and allocate resources per person can help save costs as well as improve data searches and maintenance as 95% of corporate information exists on paper^[8].