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Information for prospective suppliers
Selling to Greens Water Systems
Greens Water Systems are a small specialist
company with a focus firmly on meeting the needs of our customers.
We don't have a dedicated purchasing department, and have limited
resouces available for contact with suppliers. However, we recognise
the importance of establishing contact with prospective new suppliers
of the products and services our business needs. Please follow the
guidelines here in order to make your contact with us as efficient
as possible and to enable us to give your products or services the
attention and consideration they deserve.
PLEASE don't contact us if you're offering
any of the following:
- Business rates revaluation
services
- Charity appeals and fund raising
- Water Coolers
- Web site promotion / search
engine submission
- European funding / grant finding
services
- Business Organisation membership
- Photocopiers / Office Machines
- Mobile phones / services
- Domain
name registration
- Directory / Yearbook advertising
- Disposal of used vehicles
- Electricity / Gas / Phone
services
- Franking Machine supplies
- Shares / Bonds / Investment
recomendations
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As
sales professionals ourselves, we recognise that prospecting for new
business is both time consuming and costly. Please save your time
and money - and ours!
A special word about Charity Appeals
We're sorry that we have to ask you not to
contact us for charity appeals, although we're not the mean minded
Scrooges that this may imply. We support Charities as much as we are
able, but with limited resources, it's important that our efforts
aren't diluted. We have chosen The Woodland Trust (www.woodland-trust.org.uk)
as our nominated charity, and support their work in reversing the
decline in Britains Woodland Heritage.
Stock Purchasing
As you will see from our main
site, we sell a wide range of products related to water treatment,
but we're always looking for new and innovative ideas. We'd love to
consider selling your product, especially if it meets at least some
of the following criteria:
- Is it a new design?
- Would it appeal to customers
who buy our existing products?
- Does it have innovative features?
- Is it an improvement on what
we currently offer?
- Does it fit into our existing
product portfolio?
- Is there a proven demand for
it?
- Is it good value compared
to similar products?
- Are there logistical advantages?
- Do you offer adequate spares
backup, technical information and support?
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If you can answer "yes" to at least some of these questions, we'd
be pleased to hear from you.
Business Equipment, Supplies and Services
A wide range of supplies and services are
used within our business. Keeping up to date with developments in
products, services and technology is important in order to ensure
we remain effective, productive and competitive and we rely on suppliers
to help us do this. Your product or service is more likely to be appropriate
for us if you can demonstrate how it would help us achieve any of
the following compared to our current arrangements:
- Increase our level of customer
service
- Save time
- Reduce overheads
- Increase productivity
- Benefit the environment
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Suppliers of products and services to small business often operate
in an extremely competitive market, especially in certain sectors.
There are several areas, for example Office Stationary, where we are
not planning to review our purchasing policy for a considerable time.
For further information about our requirements for specific goods
or services, please contact us.
By far the best way to contact us
initially is by email to purchasing@water-systems.co.uk
giving brief details about your product or service and why you
think it may be of interest. Also include, if possible, a link
to your web site. Please don't send any email attachment, multiple
messages or add us to any mailing list. Email spam is automatically
deleted unopened. Alternatively, send brief written details
to us by post to:
Greens Water Systems, 12 Exchange
Road, Lincoln, LN6 3JZ United Kingdom.
Initial information should ideally be
no more than a couple of sheets of paper. We will carefully
review the information normally within 10 days, and if appropriate,
we'll contact you to request more details, and to open a formal
dialogue. Please avoid phoning us until after we've contacted
you. If you don't hear from us, please be assured that we value
the information you sent, and the trouble you've taken. Unfortunately
though, your offering is not appropriate to us at this time.
How not to contact us!
If you're a prospective new supplier,
please don't make your initial contact with us by phone or unsolicited
fax. And definately not on our Freephone Sales Number!
Always use email or post instead. We don't have resources or
procedures to handle inbound calls other than to our Customer
Service Agents. If you ignore this advice, our staff are instructed
to simply refer you to this web page and terminate the call
as quickly as possible.
If you're an established supplier please think twice before
phoning unless it's urgent - why not email instead? It's important
for us to keep our phone lines as free as possible in order
to offer the high level of service our customers have grown
to expect. You could prevent a customer buying one of your products!
Thank you
Thanks for taking the time to read this
page. We hope that your product or service proves suitable for
us, and that a long and mutually beneficial business relationship
develops.
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