When our staff was told that we would have to start cutting back or people would be losing their jobs, we all decided to get together and come up with money saving ideas to help the company. We had a brainstorming session that resulted in a big list of things that we could save money on.

I was in charge of finding a company where we could get more affordable cleaning products from. The janitor told us that he is given a company credit card every month to go out and buy all of the cleaning products that he will need for the month. The only problem with that is that he goes to the local grocery store and buys the name brand stuff. He knows that ordering from a professional cleaning products company that we could buy in bulk from would be much better, but this is the way it has always been done.

My coworker Sue was put in charge of finding safety supplies that were cheaper than the ones we currently have. Everything that we have right now, for safety supplies were very old and if we had an inspection, it would cost us more for fines then to just go ahead and throw out all the old stuff and get some new.

We were able to find a company to supply us with both the cleaning products and the safety supplies and both were very affordable and saved the company money in the long run.