OnVia All of your small business needs. Ordering online allows for more than browsing products and prices. Schools band together for volume discounts. To get the required three bids from vendors for, say, a kiln in an art classroom means a maze of phone tag and faxes. Freed of busywork, workers will find greater savings, says Grossmont's purchasing director Linda Bertolucci.
Janitors now mix cleaning liquids from five-gallon containers.
Bertolucci says she has wondered how much money could be saved by installing machines in janitor closets that dispense fluids in proper proportions. They don't have the competition to force change. There is so much pain in the process. Copyright 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved.