IT Strategies
SUPPLY CHAIN Training
Cyber Security analysis
With the various threats that come with the rapid technology grow protecting your company's IP, network, and the information is critical. Having a strategy reduces your risk of having a major security breach that could cripple your business. We will show you how to verify who's using your systems and how control critical access points.
What needs to be protected
- Application / Databases
- Information / Data
- Network / Infrastructure / Voice over IP
- Operational
- PC's and Servers
- Mobility Devices
- End-user education
- Disaster Recovery / business continuity planning
Digital Rights Management (Information Technology)
The IT strategy is essential to improving or sustaining your company's infrastructure. This encompasses the platforms or channels your business's conducts business. Strategies here will maximize the value that your business is getting from its various platforms from MRP systems, Intranet, Servers, or remote access points. These will also help address any process or procedures gaps. These processes and procedures affect how quickly operations and support functions can complete the task.
Process Improvements
Understanding your processes and why they are needed is vital to maximizing productivity. Most people in your company wear multiple hats. Reducing the waste in your process will allow you and your employees to work more effectively and efficiently. We live in times where turnover of employees is more frequent, and knowledge is typically lost when those employees leave your business.
By understanding how your employees work and their preferred way of completing a task, we can recommend strategies on how to improve your processes. The less time they spend on the trivial task, the more time they can devote to the task that can add value to your company. Our team can provide some best practices on how you can improve your process flow and document them.
Technical Support
Most small businesses do not have a dedicated full-time Information Technology staff. Depending on the network design and the number of devices connected a shared MSP solution might better to address technical issues not covered by the ISP contract.
Sourcing Strategies
Sourcing Strategies are you understanding what you buy and the options of supplier of vendor that can provide what you need. It is always best to explain your options to effectively manage your vendors.
Purchasing Strategies
Know when to buy services or materials is critical to satisfying your customer. Also understanding how much of the good or service to order is vital in maintaining a flexible supply chain. Over buying is just as bad as not having enough. When you over buy materials or services, you increase the risk of wasting money, space, and time to manage these materials. This also will create a negative impact on your balance sheet and cash flow statement because your assets (inventory) are not generating revenue.
Risk Analysis
Value Stream & Supply chain Mapping- This builds off the previous statement of understanding who, where, & how your services/ materials arrive. This will make your supply chain more efficient and assist your order planning
Disruption Strategy
Having a plan to how your company will attack supply chain disruptions will help you retain customers in difficult times of high demand/ low supply and vise versa. About 80% of businesses don't have a plan if they're hit with a supply chain disruption such as shortage, sanctions, suppliers going out of business, or market consolidation.
Contract Administration
Understanding your contract deliverables and your provider's deliverables are critical to building the best relationship. These deliverables on your strategic suppliers should be being tracked and measured. Also, the contract maturity and impact of performance should also be measured. We will prepare you for not only understanding the fundamentals of performance but also how to gain the trust of your vendors to go above and beyond the contract to build a lasting relationship