Manufacturing in Great Britain has changed significantly over the last few years. It now involves price competition from overseas, together with significant increases in the costs of energy, fuel; some raw materials and general inflation have placed cost pressure on all manufacturing businesses.
Case Study
“We contacted Utilise initially through our Trade association to save on our costs. I have used other companies in the past to look at our costs but I can very much recommend using Utilise. The personal service and willingness to go the extra mile makes them different. Susie’s interpersonal skills & her willingness to solve issues with existing utility suppliers has been very refreshing.”
Richard Foster, MD Foster Industrial, Loughborough
Energy
Always busy with managing his operation, dealing with suppliers and getting orders delivered on time, any time spent trawling through energy contracts always felt like time wasted. A manufacturer from Spalding welcomed our free service that would do all of this for him.
Firstly we got full information on his entire energy contract. We diarised all relevant dates and managed the contract dates. At the appropriate time we set a date and tendered all his energy contracts with the best top quality low cost providers in the market. With- comprehensive and transparent market reports they could see exactly what new prices were available. We demonstrated, against their renewal and his current prices, his exact savings for his Unit. We made Independent recommendations (we work for the client, not the suppliers), but the choice was always theirs to make.
The company now have an Individual Account Manager who they can contact about any issues with their supply or contract. The friendly personalised service has resulted in this company being confident that they can concentrate on running their business, while they know that Utilise are managing their costs.
Cost savings of 32% with prices fixed for a three year term to protect the company from future price increases.
LPG
This client’s busy industrial unit operates two fork-lifts for unloading materials from suppliers and loading their delivery vans. One of these fork-lifts is electric and the other is powered by LPG. Utilise clarified the terms of the existing contract, then arranged for an industry expert to visit the industrial unit to investigate the health and safety requirement for using LPG on-site, and then arrange to quote for the LPG with a fully transparent pricing proposal.
The exercise achieved a cost savings of 12% and had provided the client with a specialist relationship manager to advise on LPG, together with a 24/7 emergency helpline.
Telecoms
This company has as few very large companies constituting their customer base and consequently their office makes and receives modest numbers of calls. After an analysis of their current telecoms provision, Utilise produced a quote that was far more cost effective. The client has a year to run on their existing contract and will take up the Utilise option once the current contract matures.
The company has a small fleet of vans and provides the drivers with mobile phones so that they can be contacted. Our telecoms team analysed their usage and on checking the ‘bundled’ package, ascertained that the company were only using a fraction of the calls that they were paying for. Utilise then tendered the contract to all of the major mobile operators and achieved substantial savings with better quality smart-phones.
The exercise achieved a cost savings of 24% on landlines and 31% on mobiles.
Insurance – property cover
Working with our specialist Brokers to produce a comprehensive quotation brief, we were able to improve both the costs and the cover in place.
The exercise achieved a cost savings of 12%