The Operational Excellence for the 2nd Century Campaign (OE2C) moved into its second stage for the Procurement Initiative, exploring new ways to cut printing costs throughout SMU.

“A preliminary assessment indicates this is an area where we can achieve significant savings,” the OE2C website announced Wednesday.

According to SMU, the university spent approximately $150 million on goods and services like food and office supplies. SMU plans on saving $11 million to $15 million annually through changes within the Procurement initiative.

SMU installed an application “PaperCut” throughout the campus Wednesday. The application will aggregate print data and evaluate the campus’ printing needs.

By calculating the total number of print jobs and paper usage, the university will have data to reevaluate the campus’ printing needs.

Only aggregate data will be used and PaperCut will not record the contents of the documents printed.

The SMU community is encouraged to continue their printing needs as usual throughout the application’s data gathering.