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David Saroli, CEO of Osiris Innovations Group, helps companies simplify their distribution, ordering and purchasing processes.Local spotlight
Firm simplifies order processing, delivery
Osiris Innovations of Oxford streamlines companies' procedures, saves them time, money.
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OXFORD -- Jack Long figures automating his company's ordering and delivering system will save his firm at least $60,000 a year. That's what Long would have paid in salary and benefits for an employee to handle the paperwork associated with processing orders at Materials Management Services in Detroit.
"We had to make a decision to upgrade our system or personnel," Long said. "We chose the system to reduce manual activity and increase productivity. Now, instead of filling out invoices, it's all Web-based. We can see all the orders that go through and see that at any time. Even our customers can do that. It allows transparency."
Materials Management partnered with Osiris Innovations Group to handle the technical side of the system, which allows the company to focus on distributing industrial, janitorial and office supplies. Helping companies automate their purchasing and distributing processes has allowed Osiris to grow into a $6 million firm since its founding in 2003, said CEO David Saroli. This year's sales could reach $8 million and grow to $20 million in the near future, he added.
Osiris creates a system that lets clients use the Web to select, purchase, track and pay for a variety of supplies to keep an office or plant running, Saroli said.
"We collect all of the suppliers in an electronic catalog format," he said, comparing the experience to using a customized Web site at home that indexes items from Amazon, Best Buy, Lands End and dozens of other retailers in one location.
"Imagine if you could just go in and all of these catalogs would be there and you could purchase items in one stop?" he asked. "You only have to put your credit card number in one time. What kind of time would you save?" Streamlining the procedure can reduce the costs associated with handling an order from $125 for a paper process to $35 electronically, Saroli said.
"These people don't want to continue their manual processes and they don't want to have to go out and develop a relationship with a catalog company," said Bob Poloskey, Osiris' chief operating officer. "We can do it all from procurement to processing payment."
Neal Haldane is a Metro Detroit freelance writer.
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