customer:	Thrifty Car Rental
business:	Leisure & Commercial Car & Van Rental
timescale:	2004 to present
region:	National
services:	eSP Desktop stationery
locations:	115 UK wide

Overview

Thrifty Car Rental was found in the US in 1958 as a value-orientated car hire company. Today the company has over 1000 locations across 70 countries both wholly owned and Franchised.

In the UK, the company has 115 car and van hire locations.

Client Need

Having supplied Thrifty for several years with adhoc print, it was besley & copp’s account manager that identified that Thrifty would benefit from the implementation of our eProcurement solution, eSP.

At that time, Thrifty had no company intranet and was heavily reliant on basic internal administration to deal with their ever-expanding network’s print requirements and stock control of a huge number of business critical hire documents.

With an ambitious acquisition strategy planned, it was essential that Thrifty managed this side of their business.

Solution

besley & copp carried out a detailed business audit, not only the companies print demands, but also in order to understand the growth plans for the business.

We then created ‘Thrifty Easy Order’, powered by our eProcurement solution, eSP. ‘Thrifty Easy Order’ provides the company with a scalable web-based solution for all 115 UK branches. eSP has enabled Thrifty to:

• Take advantage of low-cost stakeholder communication
• De-centralise order administration
• Put in place a secure and robust authorisation procedure
• Monitor and control Thrifty’s print expenditure

The modular design of eSP serves as a foundation that enables the system to grow and develop as the customers business develops and changes. In fact after only a few weeks of going live, besley & copp identified the opportunity for additional savings.

Taking advantage of our desktop stationery service operated in conjunction with our partner Lyreco, branches can utilise the existing eSP powered ‘Thrifty Easy Order’ website to not only order their operational print, but to also order and manage their desktop stationery without the need for additional branch logins.

In the future we can develop ‘Thrifty Easy Order’ further to incorporate our imail solution, that further reduces stationery and mailing costs, while delivering greater flexibility and response to marketing and operational communication.

eSP can handle more than just print, but all areas of procurement. In fact so much more even serving as an intranet and a training hub.

Benefit

eSP has been a great fit for Thrifty Car Rental and allows them to grow aggressively with a scalable and fully accountable web-based solution.

For further information on our knowledge of print for the hire sectorr , our eSP eProcurement solutions or to gain secure access to demo eSP yourself, please click here or call one of our specialists on +44 (0)1392 477137