On the occasion of a Social Procurement training session provided by Altavia’s partner Gesat and organised as part of the Positive Sourcing approach, the group’s purchasing teams were given a chance to visit Colombes based social inclusion company APosit, specialized in reprography and printing services.
An opportunity for the purchasers to discover the specific features and the functioning of a printing company in the social inclusion field whose 80% of the employees are disabled.
Objective: rehabilitation
Created more than 25 years ago, APosit offers stationery services, administrative forms, Human Resources documents, internal and external communication and marketing. The workshop employs 30 people, of which 8 are seconded in “classical” companies.
“Our objective is to reintegrate, each three years, 10% of our employees in classical environment, explains Marc de Villoutreys, Director of the sales department. So far, four of our employees have passed their BEP ( French Diploma) in Graphic Arts thanks to the accreditation of prior experiential learning.”
A social inclusion company, of course, but a company above all else
As any other service provider, Aposit is submitted to an assessment by its clients. APosit can boast about “generally positive feedbacks”, is pleased to say Laurent Delneufcourt, Vice-Director.
The client sets the evaluation grid on criteria such as reactivity, agreement between initial request and final product”. According to David Millet, Chief of Porudction, this client satisfaction is explained by the fact that at APosit “ we like to work with paper, each person really appropriate the projects!”.
An enthusiam and a profesionalism that visitors have well noticed “ the employees of APosit are smiling and are proud to show their belonging to this structure, explains Gabrielle Des Robert, Print Purchaser and Social Purchaser at Altavia, but also co-organizer of this training. Like in any other social inclusion company from our supplier panel from STPA ( Adapted and protected work sector), professionalism and client satisfaction are required. This visit handled by the personal training of Gesat is a success: the purchasers have felt involved and willful to invest a lot in our Positive Sourcing Approach!”
The studio is a member of APEI de la Boucle de Seine, which manages 23 establishments and services, gathering 700 children and adults with mental health issues in dedicated structures for education, accommodation and work. The association have five certified establishments : four ESAT (Les Bouleaux, Le Castel, Les Cerisiers et Les Voies du Bois) and one social inclusion company, APosit.