IT Vendor Management
For any modern business organization, implementing the right set of tools and software is critical to your organization. As you grow, it can be difficult to scale and track every vendor you’re partnered with, which can sometimes result in duplicate vendors, overages, and unused tools still billing. Populus can help you not only consolidate, but choose the best vendors for your business to minimize cost and maximize efficiency.
Our Process
Step One: Analysis
We’ll work with you and your team to complete a full inventory of every vendor, invoice, and contract that currently exists within your organization. Once we have the data, we can make sense of costs, vendor agreements, and look at opportunities to consolidate and optimize.
Step Two: Strategy
We work with stakeholders to align your IT partnerships to your longer-term business growth plans. With our team’s expertise, we can narrow down and present the best options between world-class vendors that will not only meet, but exceed, your company’s needs and goals.
Step Three: Delivery
Once our strategy is set, we’ll ensure a smooth transition including onboarding of new vendors, offboarding of old ones, and consistency in customer service including billing and invoicing. We’ll keep stakeholders informed of progress, and measure our success against KPIs set during the strategy phase. Our goal is to minimize business disruption and maximize ROI.
Step Four: Support
When the transition is complete, we maintain open lines of communication with vendors and hold them accountable for delivering consistent service. We can help re-negotiate contracts, make updates and adjustments, and resolve anything that arises along the way. Our job is to liaise and advocate to keep costs down and efficiency up.