cr advantage issue 3
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CR Advantage issue 3TRANSCRIPT
issue three august 2012
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this edition
Welcome from CEO of Church Resources 2
Does your salary packaging program add up? 3
Of f iceMax® commitment 5
Complete cleaning and sanitation solutions 6
CR Solutions Guide 7
Win $500 by simply submitting a recipe 9
Save money and improve your energy efficiency 10
More than a quarter of all Australians work or volunteer in the NFP industry every year.
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CR Advantage - Take 3!I am pleased to welcome you to the third edition of CR Advantage. With the start of the new financial year, well and truly here already, and with many Olympic achievements to be proud of; it’s fitting to highlight purchasing and procurement achievements, as you start a new chapter in your business.
In this edition, we’re excited to show you our new CR Solutions Guide. The CR Solutions are designed to effectively and easily help you and your organisation find the right products and services to solve any problem. CR offers a wide range of benefits, through our Preferred Partners, across our eleven Solutions:
Æ Information Communications; Æ Office Supplies; Æ Energy; Æ Foodservice; Æ Education; Æ Travel; Æ People; Æ Cleaning, Sanitation & Medical; Æ Design, fit-out & Maintain; Æ Logistics; and Æ Employee Benefits.
Tell us what you think
This is the third edition of CR Advantage - so it’s a work in progress. To tell us what you think about our new e-magazine, email [email protected] and have your say!
These CR Solutions will add value across the supply chain and help you address key requirements of your organisation. CR provides you with procurement expertise and capabilities, across all these eleven Solutions, enabling you to concentrate on your core mission.
You may have recently received one of our new eNewsletters; CRMyTeam, CRDigital and CRSupply. These new communications have been developed to provide you with the most relevant and up-to-date information about your area of expertise, we hope you agree and have enjoyed the value these new emails bring. The eNewsletters are an extension of the new CR Solutions Guide, grouping and showcasing select solutions for HR, IT, Procurement and leadership across your organisation through the email channel. Turn to page 8 of this edition for all the details about these new emails – and to subscribe.
I’d like to draw your attention specifically to page 9. Our Preferred Partner, Goodman Fielder (through their product line, Pampas), offers you a chance to win a $500 Visa cash card, by simply submitting your favourite recipe with sauce, mayonnaise or dressing. This competition is only valid for a month – so get your entries in soon – good luck!
With best wishes
Luke Kenny CEO, Church Resources
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Salary Packaging Effectiveness
Managing a robust and contemporary salary packaging program is a ‘must do’ for many CR Members. There may be significant additional benefits if your organisation is a registered charity or from aged care or healthcare sectors. Ensuring your employees can leverage the benefits they are entitled to and get the most from their salary can make a big difference in attracting and retaining talented staff.
When it comes to administering a successful employee benefits program, aligning the delivery of the service with your organisational culture and reputation can be as important as the program itself. Whether you are managing your program in-house or through an external provider, providing a personal and caring service, as well effectively managing compliance, risk and complex administrative activities while delivering a program of true value to your employees, can be a difficult balancing act to achieve and maintain.
So what should you be looking for in a salary packaging program or provider?
Here are some key things to assess when you are thinking about your program’s effectiveness:
Æ Engaging and educating your employees
What are your levels of participation like? How many of your employees are aware of your salary packaging program and how salary packaging actually works?
Æ Personal and dedicated service and support
Salary packaging can be a complex financial decision for many. Do you have the resources available to explain and meet with your employees one on one?
Æ Systems and process capability Having robust and proven systems and processes for managing transactions, account amendments, claims and reporting accurately and in a timely manner are essential to ensuring that your employees experience a smooth and seamless program.
Æ Compliance and security Are you confident in the quality and level of compliance, and the risk (financial, tax) that comes with managing salary packaging programs? What types of assurances can you gain from your current provider or in-house processes?
It takes specialist expertise, robust systems and exceptional customer service to deliver fully outsourced employee benefit program.
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Does your salary packaging program
add up?
As a CR Preferred Partner, Maxxia can do just that. Maxxia offer you a dedicated local team that understands your business and how to engage your employees through a proven salary packaging program.
When you partner with CR and Maxxia you can expect award-winning personalised service – your call is answered by a real person, not a machine, our benefits payments are prompt and any customer issues are resolved on the spot where possible.
We offer you: Æ A wide choice of benefits, including a range of post-tax benefits
Æ Personal one-on-one employee consultations and onsite information sessions
Æ Increased customer education and support to explain the benefits
Æ A dedicated Client Relations team to directly work with your HR and payroll areas.
Maxxia is part of the ASX listed McMillan Shakespeare group,
giving you peace of mind that your program is well-insured, compliant, robust and supported by 700 strong team throughout.
Click here to register your interest, alternatively call us on 1300 248 724 or email [email protected].
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Exclusive discounts for CR Members across the OfficeMax® catalogue
Due to recent market events, we understand that some of our Members in the education space may be experiencing some uncertainty in regards to office products supply. CR has worked with OfficeMax® to give these Members access to this wide range of products immediately – to give you peace of mind and allow you to concentrate on your core activity – educating students! For more information about this, please contact 1300 248 724 (Option 3).
Our Preferred Partner, OfficeMax® has had long standing commitment to CR Members and their staff. We have worked together over many years to ensure that the very best offers for the very best products and services are available right across Australia for all our not-for-profit Members.
From local primary schools to healthcare centres, aged care facilities to your church, chances are they are an OfficeMax® customer.
As almost all of CR’s Members have office supply and stationery requirements, CR and OfficeMax® have worked together to leverage the aggregated buying power of the whole not-for-profit sector and offer a 5% discount across the entire OfficeMax® range.
OfficeMax® provides leading brands and the best prices across a huge range of products and services for CR Members, including:
Æ Office supplies and stationery; Æ Technology; Æ Furniture (specialised and general);
Æ Education supplies; Æ A back to school program for students and parents;
Æ Art supplies; Æ First aid and medical supplies; and
Æ Cleaning supplies.
To take advantage of these savings, your organisation will need an OfficeMax® account. To start an OfficeMax® account, click here or email [email protected]. If you have unique requirements or would like further information, click here and an OfficeMax® account manager will contact you to discuss.
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Complete cleaning and sanitation solutionsChurch Resources has partnered with Diversey to bring CR Members one of Australia’s leading sustainable cleaning, sanitation and hygiene solutions.
Diversey can help you in your day-to-day cleaning and hygiene requirements across a wide variety of activities; facility management, healthcare grade hygiene, foodservice, cafe or retail cleaning, beverage service and much more!
Concentrating on solving your cleaning and hygiene requirements as a solution rather than a series of individual products, Diversey provides you with more than just chemical supply. They have teams right around Australia who can audit your facilities and provide you with a recommended solution to cover all your facilities’ needs.
The solution can include chemicals, hardware for delivery of those chemicals, guides to usage and safe working practices, safe removal and disposal of chemicals, advice on energy and water conservation and ongoing information to help you reduce wastage, be more environmentally sustainable and ensure that you are complying with all work health and safety regulations.
Through Church Resources, you will have more than just a customer relationship with Diversey. Diversey and Church Resources work together to bring you a true partnership.
To find out how you can improve your cleaning, sanitation and hygiene across all your facilities, click here and your CR Account Manager will contact you to get the process started.
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Our new Solutions guide is designed to effectively and easily communicate the CR range of benefits. Our Preferred Partners’ products and services have been grouped by Member problems and Solutions.
The solutions guide
information communications
office supplies foodservice
education
design, fit-out & maintain logistics employee benefits faith-based publications
peopletravel cleaning, sanitation & medical
energy
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The problem: Going to tender, completing due diligence, negotiating and contract management are time consuming and expensive. Procurement processes can be risky and professional facilitation is often beyond the reach of many not-for-profits.
The CR Solution: CR has a suite of aggregated procurement agreements and established relationships with Preferred Partners across a wide range of solutions.
We partner with telecommuni-cations suppliers, technology providers and our video conferencing provider to bring you the highest quality information and communication solutions at prices
CR Solutions
Click here and we’ll send you a
Solutions Guide
enjoyed by Australia’s largest corporate organisations.
Utilising CR’s group purchasing power, you can access dynamic market prices normally available to only the largest energy users to help you save money by using less and being more environmentally sustainable.
The CR Foodservice Solution provides a no cost, obligation free continuous improvement program We assist you to realise significant Foodservice savings and efficiencies through our consulting and analysis.
The CR Travel Solution provides you with the ultimate confidence in your travel planning including car hire, flight bookings and accommodation across town or across the globe. Travel reliably, safely and securely with the CR Travel Solution.
The CR People Solution is designed to help you; attract recruit and keep the right people; enhance and simplify your payroll and HR systems; and deliver a ready-made employee benefits program to your staff and volunteers.
The CR Cleaning, Sanitation and Medical Solution delivers specialist solutions to give you confidence and savings in facilities management, laundry and linen services, hospital and clinical-grade sanitation, medical supplies and safety disposal.
We also have two new Solutions which are Logistics and Employee Benefits. Contact us by phone on:1300 248 724 or by email at:[email protected] on our website:www.cr.org.au.
As part of our Solutions launch we have also created three new email communications. These are new emails are CRMyTeam, CRDigital and CRSupply. They are designed to tailor the information to specific Member audiences so we are only providing you with the most relevant and useful information in our emails. We hope that you find real value in our emails and look forward to receiving them.
CRMyTeam focuses on our People, Employee Benefits, Travel and Logistics Solutions and its subscriber list includes HR Managers, Senior Managers and Operations Managers.
CRDigital focuses on our Information Communications Solution and is designed for IT Managers, Office Managers, Business Managers, Managing Directors, CFO’s and CEO’s.
CRSupply focuses on our Office Supplies, Logistics, Education, Energy and Travel Solutions. The email has been specifically tailored for Office Managers, Business Managers, CEO’s and CFO’s to give you the information you need, when you need it.
Click here to subscribe or contact us by email at:[email protected]
Time to take some credit?
or send an email to [email protected]
Church Resources Member Offer Recipe Reward
Simply submit your favourite foodservice
recipe using any of the Praise Food Service
dressings, sauces or mayonnaise for
your chance to win one of two pre-paid
Visa cards with $500 credit. A panel of
foodservice professionals will review all
recipes and judge the two best.
To see the Praise range you need to choose fromor visit our website www.gffoodservice.com.au and refer to the promotions page
Promotion ends 31 October, 2012
or visit our website www.gffoodservice.com.au and refer to the promotions page
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Save money, help the environment and improve your energy efficiency
The energy used for lighting aMember facility represents oneof the largest parts for many ofour Members’ energy bills – inturn, this is one of the key areasfor improvement in your energyefficiency.
Installing energy efficient lightinghas the potential to reduce theenergy used by lighting by as muchas 40%, this could save you asmuch as 10% on your electricitycosts – a significant saving forlarge sites and organisations withsignificant electricity utilisation.
With prices rising due toinfrastructure investment in theelectricity grid, your savings willalso rise at an equal rate. Energyefficient lighting isn’t just for a year;it’s an investment that stays withyou for the life of your property!
Improving the efficiency of yourlighting is easy with our PreferredPartner, Eco Community, they canmanage the process of:
Æ Auditing your existing lighting energy costs;
Æ Production of a lighting energy cost analysis;
Æ Equipment replacement cost analysis; and
Æ Payback period and return on investment.
By using less energy, you will saveon your operating costs associatedwith your energy usage and alsohelp the environment. It’s a win foryou and a win for the environment!
To speak to a CR account managerabout our Energy Solution,call 1300 248 724 or [email protected].
CR Members may benefit from Government financial incentive programs reducing the capital investment to become more energy efficient. Save money on your electricity bill while also being more environmentally sustainable.
Eco Community makes it easy to implement energy efficient lighting and then they manage the compliance processes for aGovernment program.
Click here and register your interest in taking advantage of a financial incentive program in Eco Community’s Round 1 phase before 30 October 2012.
Time to take some credit?
or send an email to [email protected]
Church Resources Member Offer Recipe Reward
Simply submit your favourite foodservice
recipe using any of the Praise Food Service
dressings, sauces or mayonnaise for
your chance to win one of two pre-paid
Visa cards with $500 credit. A panel of
foodservice professionals will review all
recipes and judge the two best.
To see the Praise range you need to choose fromor visit our website www.gffoodservice.com.au and refer to the promotions page
Promotion ends 31 October, 2012
or visit our website www.gffoodservice.com.au and refer to the promotions page
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www.cr.org.au
Catholic Resources Trust – operating as Church Resources – is a charitable trust, the trustee company being Catholic Resources Limited. The directors of Catholic Resources Limited are the members of the Central Commission of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. The Trust operates in cooperation with the leaders of Australia’s religious orders (ACLRI). The Beneficiaries of the Trust are the institutions and members of the Catholic Church, other churches and not-for-profit organizations in Australia.
Head Office: 4th Floor, 504 Pacific Highway St Leonards NSW 2065 Registered Company: Catholic Resources Limited ACN: 080 995 044 Registered Business Name: Church Resources
Make us your first resource
If you would like to know more about Church Resources and how we can help your organisation, we would be happy to assist you.
Email [email protected]
Web www.cr.org.au
Phone 1300 CHURCH (1300 248 724) or 02 9439 2622
Fax 02 9439 2802
Mail PO Box 1522, Crows Nest NSW 1585 Australia