Enhancing profits is often a result of incrementally reducing input costs, supply costs or general and administrative expenses. By contacting suppliers every so often and reminding them of your excellent buying and payment record and negotiating for a better arrangement as a result, you will contribute to the incremental reduction of costs. Most suppliers will listen, but not all will concede a reduction in your pricing. For those that don't you should consider looking at alternative suppliers. With the advent of email and high quality video conferencing, a lot of travel can be cut.
Email provides and excellent medium for sharing information and documents.
A lot of communication and document exchange can take place with email. Also, video conferencing has now advanced to the point where the quality is sufficient to allow conferencing via the personal computer on your desk top. While this is important in some cases, there are a number of other instances where it is not.