The need for intelligent management of the workstations of Atlante, a company that operates in large-scale retail trade, has found an answer in the Fleet Management offer of Centro Computer.
Computer Center, a consultancy company specializing in IT products, services and solutions for companies, has signed a Fleet Management contract with Atlas srl, a historic company that operates in the import-export of Italian and foreign large-scale retail food products, satisfying every need to optimize the purchasing phases and reduce procurement costs for the entire fleet of workstations and multifunction printing devices.
Born in the mid-90s, Atlante is today a consolidated Italian company based in Casalecchio di Reno (BO), which uses a unique business model as it operates as a strategic partner of the main large-scale retail chains on the national and international territory, with the aim of raising awareness of the variety and quality of the Italian food tradition, offering a complete service for the development and management of turnkey private label projects, starting from market studies to inspections, up to the optimization of logistics and raw material costs. Atlante's success is based on in-depth knowledge of markets and products, quality control, the efficiency of logistical control and attention to continuous staff training. These were the winning ingredients that made Atlante an ideal partner for every national and international project, reaching the point of entering into important collaboration agreements with giants of the food around the world, from Migros in Switzerland, Sainsbury's in the United Kingdom, Kroger in the United States to projects in Japan and India, in perfect line with the company payoff: Food of the World.
The growth of the company and the need to maintain a lean and efficient production structure in step with digital transformation led Atlante to find the need to rely on a new way of managing the entire fleet of company workstations and multifunction printing devices. The fundamental priority was to abandon the spot purchasing system and instead implement a structured workflow that ensured contractual flexibility and allowed the optimization of the purchasing phase, reducing hidden procurement costs. For this reason, Atlante chose the Fleet Management of Centro Computer, now the company's IT partner, as a solution to the rigidity imposed by classic operational locations.
Flexibility and simplification of processes are in fact the advantages that the Centro Computer Fleet Management contract ensures through the development of a supply plan that can always be modified compared to the initial one, both in terms of products and in terms of agreed services. This unstructured purchasing system also has the advantage of being based on the payment of a fixed monthly fee and the possibility of an annual adjustment, paid on the basis of the excess or deficiency of services and products provided compared to what was initially agreed. The contract is renewed at the end of the first year and subsequently every three and once the contractual period has ended it is possible to continue to use what has been provided up to that moment free of charge. In fact, Fleet Management offers an all-inclusive planning, maintenance, management and disposal service, without running the risk of being forced to return or replace equipment that is still efficient at the end of the contractual period.
"We are very pleased to have chosen the Fleet Management of Computer Center in response to our needs" - says Maurizio Querzoni, Atlante IT Director - "Thanks to this solution, in fact, we are no longer bound to the rigidity that the classic alternatives of purchasing and renting imposed on us and we can now count on a periodic renewal of the fleet, assistance on products and the tranquility of the fixed fee. . All this by relying on the professionalism of Centro Computer which implemented the project in a very short time, starting to provide products and services starting from the day following the formalization of the agreement and finalizing everything in just one week. "
"Centro Computer has made its consolidated expertise available to Atlante by offering Fleet Management as a solution to the company's needs" - he says Davide Govoni, commercial consultant of Centro Computer - "In this way it was possible to circumscribe and offer the advantages of both the traditional purchase and the operating lease, including the management of options, assistance on the products included in the Fleet Management contract, the decrease in TCO and above all a definition accurate budgeting and the reduction of administrative management costs. By doing so, we guaranteed our client the operational efficiency they needed, with the peace of mind of a fixed fee and we laid the foundations for a partnership that could foresee future projects in the Unified Communication field, with solutions perfectly integrated with Office 365 applications. . "
