Purchasing & Supply Chain Management

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Systems/Process/e-tool Solutions

Your business likely relies heavily on Information Technology to bring your product or service to market and satisfy internal business needs. Velocity specializes in providing an entire suite of IT services and products that are both affordable and time sensitive.

 

 
  • If you are considering a software upgrade for your Supply Chain Management function Velocity can; source, evaluate and help you negotiate the purchase and support you will need for the right product. Software acquisition is a very in depth process, the decision often is one based on compromise. Velocity can provide an evaluation that considers all the trade-offs. We guarantee that we can assist with your requirements definition and provide a recommendation that includes: the effect on staff, the effect on your business processes and a budget that accounts for all the direct and a special emphasis on "hidden" and or future costs and the potential cost avoidance. Have you been involved in an upgrade that became the "endless project with numerous surprises?" Velocity will work for you to plan the implementation with definitive time and monetary goals to help avoid costly surprises.
  • Velocity can map out your Supply Chain Management processes and help you understand specific processes and the related use of the systems, decision points and effect on manpower. Velocity will work with your staff to "get it right" and then provide a set of easy to follow "Visio" produced flow charts. We would provide this output with recommendations for process change with one purpose only: to reduce costs.
  • Whether you are a small, midsize or large operation there is a web enabled procurement solution for you. Strategically, Supply Chain Management would be looking for these e-tools since their use can provide at least two interventions: (a) a reduction in clerical effort (b) provide easy to use procurement tools directly to the people in your organization that know what material or equipment they need. Systems to provide this approach have a wide range of functionality and costs. Velocity can help you find the least cost approach or as previously mentioned Velocity has developed a number of purchasing and inventory control web enabled tools that you can implement within days.