The Shipman Group Alliance Business Partners

Diversity Benefits supports employers with plan design and market analysis, implementation assistance and ongoing administration. We work to secure the best value in the marketplace, deliver unparalleled service, deploy experienced, committed specialists, and integrate long-term planning strategies.

Specialty areas include:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health and Wellness
• Reinsurance
• Long-term care insurance
• Specialty coverage, including voluntary benefits

We offer:

• Strategic employee benefit planning
• Program evaluation
• Contract negotiation
• Implementation management
• Enrollment audit and reconciliation
• Billing administration
• Claims facilitation and resolution
• Online enrollment
• Communication planning

We offer you, our customer, a wide array of office products and services supported through a national infrastructure. Wherever your business is located, we are able to provide consistent and timely service with access to over 25,000 products containing everything from office and technology products to furniture and paper.

Office Products, Imaging Products, Janitorial Supplies, Reengineered Toner, Print Services and Promotional Products and Marketing

ABP imaging products are the right choice for quality, cost savings and environmental responsibility. We offer a comprehensive selection of quality remanufactured laser toner cartridges, ink jet and thermal fax products. We make it easy to maintain high quality and reliable printing standards with considerable cost savings. From our advanced remanufacturing processes to our easy to use recycling programs, we fulfill our ongoing commitment to our customers with guaranteed quality, superior customer service and a zero waste environmental initiative. All of our imaging products are backed by a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.

• Traditional Office Supplies - ABP supports a full-line catalog of over 10,000 products from manufacturers you know and trust.
• Copy Paper - ABP guarantees an uninterrupted supply of high-quality paper products through our national distribution relationship with Boise Paper Solutions.
• Technology Supplies - With access to over 350,000 high tech products, ABP is the logical source for all your technology needs, including hardware, software, and peripherals.
• Private Label Products - Produced by leading manufacturers, our private label brand products have a 100% quality guarantee and are a low cost alternative to high volume items.
• MWBE ProductsABP is a Small Disadvantaged business who manufactures toner. In addition to our manufactured products, we also support a wide range of other minority-manufactured products.
• Special Items - With over 25,000 product SKUs in our system and hundreds of manufacturer partnerships, our purchasing department can source any special item our customers request.

Janitorial Supplies

• Cleaning & Break Room - 2,000 janitorial, safety, and break room products that are available though our catalog.

Reengineered Toner and Print Services

• Managed Print - Our managed print objectives are to drive down costs, improve efficiency, enhance productivity and reduce the IT support workload. We assume primary responsibility for meeting our customers’ office printing needs and provide workflow analysis, needs assessment and strategic hardware optimization plans to ensure a balanced and right-sized infrastructure supported by proactive management of service and supplies.
• Recycled Products - We offer a full line of recycled products - from paper to toner - to support our customers’ environmental initiatives.

Promotional Products and Marketing.

• Promotional Products - We offer a complete line of promotional products. Let us help you promote your brand with high quality items tailored to fit your promotional needs.

Technical Services

• Technical
• Engineering
• Professional Staffing

Workforce Management

• Technical and Process Outsourcing
• Master Vendor
• Master Service Provider
• Vendor Management

All of our products are guaranteed and have superior quality:

• Corrosion Resistance
• Certified Extensive Passivation Process for Greater Salt-Spray Results
• Chrome Plated
• Victory Luster Process

Specialty Fastener Related Products

• Hose Clamps
• Cable Ties (regular and in-line color match)
• Terminals and Connectors
• Rivets and Rivet Tools
• Snap Studs
• Retaining Rings
• Trailer Hardware
• Flanged T-Bolts
• Stainless and Plated T-Nuts. Studs
• Barrel Nuts
• Rubber Well Nuts
• Phillips and Slotted Bits
• Pipe Plugs
• Hardware (Wire Rope Clips, Turn buckles, S-Hooks)

Precision Bearings for every possible application

Our philosophy is to provide our customers with absolutely the widest variety of quality precision bearings for every possible application, shipped on time, at the right price.

You'll find precisely what you need from one source with ready-to-ship inventory in large quantities of domestic and imported ball, roller, needle and rod-end bearings that the competition just doesn't offer.

Top major brands like Barden, Fabroid, Fafnir, Fay, FK, GMN, Heim, IJK, IKO, IKS, KAHR, MPB, NHBB, HW, Kaydon, Kubar, MRC, Nice, NB, NMB, RBC, Torrington and many more. All manufactured to the most demanding specifications.

Since its inception in 1976, MMB Bearings:

• Has grown from a small supplier of precision miniature bearings, to one of the largest stocking distributors of ball and roller bearings in the country.
• Is not only one of the nation's leading suppliers of high-quality ball and roller bearings; but takes great pride in the knowledge that it provides the best bearing product, superb application knowledge, quality control and the consistent, dependable service it's customers have come to rely upon. With a combined average of 25 years of bearing related knowledge, our sales/engineering staff is without equal.
• Makes regular visits to the factories to verify first hand the level of control and quality our sources are required to maintain. A sampling from every lot is taken to verify conformance to ABEC, RBEC or ISO specifications. Complete traceability is maintained indefinitely and every shipment has a certificate of compliance assuring the quality of the materials purchased.
• Can keep products on the shelf and honor any scheduled delivery date you have in mind. Anything and everything you need, we'll provide in the perfect pick of precision bearings to keep your business rolling.

Core competencies are contemporary to the trends, directions and innovations within the IT industry. Our core capabilities include:

• Program Management
• Operational Support
• Managed Services

Our Program Management Services provide our clients with decision making and managerial support for their business operations.

Program Management Services Provided

• Program Management Office
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Project Management
• Strategic Planning
• Risk Management
• Specialized Staffing Services

Operational Support Services ensure effective operational functionality of IT systems and infrastructures, while obtaining the highest rate of return for the client.

Operational Support Services Provided

• Networking Management and Administration
• Hardware/Software Support
• Help Desk Services
• Call Center Operations
• Training and Courseware Development
• Document and Records Management

Managed Services Provided

• Seat Management
• Data Center Management
• Asset Management
• Infrastructure Management
• Outsourcing Management & Services

Alliance Business Partner is an international cost-reduction consultancy that excels at finding savings in non-core, overhead cost categories.

Take advantage of Alliance Business Partners expertise

• ABP has more than 250 U.S. Consultants located across the country. ABP Consultants have access to a proprietary suite of sophisticated RFP analytic tools and benchmark pricing data from more than 14,000 successful cost- reduction projects.
• Clients can take advantage of ABP’s extensive knowledge and market intelligence in expense categories common to a wide variety of industries. Few companies would be able to justify hiring this level of expertise internally.

Savings average nearly 20%

• ABP finds average savings of nearly 20%. Consultants continue to work with clients to ensure that new services are implemented and savings projections are achieved.
• ABP clients start to realize savings quickly, usually in less than 90 days. Much of the time, clients retain their current vendors, but with better contracts.

Some common cost categories where Expense Reduction Analysts find savings:

Chemicals, Food Services, Office Supplies, Reengineered Toner & Print Services, Staffing IT & Clerical , Promotional Items , Janitorial Supplies, Energy Solutions, Fuel, Lubricants, MRO