These are a wide range if equipment mainly office equipment. These products have been use from long ago but with development and technological improvement products change to fit the standards. Stationery may vary from office to office since they are meant for different purposes. Some offices can be business oriented and may be dealing in office materials while others are just stationery users.
Stationery includes a lot more thing ranging from paper made materials like books, papers, pockets, files, flip charts, card boards. There are other materials which may not necessarily be made out of paper like paper holder made out of iron or plastic, stapling machines, computers, printers, pens, pencils, office , white out mention them. All are so important these for daily running of office work with out them may not fully function to your expectations. So if you are planning to start up an office in your area stationery is very important.
When holding conferences and work shops, it is very important to budget for stationery to be used for example reference books, flip charts and stands, reams of paper, note books, pockets, masking tapes and file folder. These are so important since your participants will use them to keep their information which they can revise in future. Information written can last for more than 1000 years. So providing your participants /learners with stationery can help you make sure that what is discussed is written down.
Company records are also kept with ease using stationery equipment. Usually companies need to keep written information though the computer revolution has reduced. How ever some of the records are a must to be written or printed making paper and ink need full. For example stores' issue notes, goods received note, agreements, stock cards, requisition forms mention them which are very import in day to day running of offices must be written or printed.
For schools stationery is more of a teaching and learning aid. In other word it facilitates the process of teaching and learning to take place. Students and teacher both use stationer in their daily activities, a teacher may find it very challenging to facilitate when has no pieces of chalk, a black board, books and pens which are use by most teachers especially in developing countries where modern technology is still lacking. Learners too will find it so challenging to study with out pencils, pens and books which they use daily. There fore for any office to be started procurement of stationery should be a priority
