Abstract

Businesses use a lot of different vendors and many of them demand a certain amount of attention. Any attention you are spending on your vendors is attention that you aren’t spending on your business. Fortunately, there is a service that can reduce your exposure to unnecessary vendor calls.

This is what is called vendor management, and it can go a long way toward saving you a lot of time and money. 

What is Vendor Management?

Think about how many vendors you use when it comes to your business’ IT. There’s a pretty good chance that there are quite a few. Hardware, software, services, and much more. As you get established with certain vendors, they become important to your business’ success, but aside from supplying you with their organization’s goods, they also take up a fair amount of time. 

That’s where the challenge lies.

Since you don’t have all the time in the world to keep your vendor representative on your speed dial, but you also need to focus on your business. At NetMGM, we offer what we call a Vendor Management that serves as a go between you and your vendors, providing you the solutions that your business needs without having to spend all types of time being  bogged down talking to vendors. Vendor management helps to alleviate the issue significantly.

How Vendor Management Benefits Your Business’ Bottom Line

Now that we’ve told you what vendor management is, we can now tell you how it can significantly affect your organization’s bottom line. They include:

Better Use of Time

As we went over above, dealing with your vendors yourself can be a time-intensive process. However, by working with NetMGM and allowing us to manage your vendors, all you have to focus on is your relationship with us. We will handle the vendor relationships, allowing you to focus on your business.

Benefits and Bargains

Since we have long-established relationships with all types of IT vendors, we are often able to procure technology quickly and effectively; saving you money on your technology investments. 

Simplicity

If we are to serve as your single point of contact, it keeps the situation simple. You don’t have to focus an ounce of energy setting up and managing your IT services and relationships. We do it all for you. 

Is a vendor management service seem like something you could really benefit from? If so, call NetMGM at 888-748-2525 to speak to one of our IT professionals about our managed IT services. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Vendors Can Cost You More Than You Realize

Rafiq Masri

With over 25 years of experience in Information Technology, Rafiq is one of the most accomplished, versatile and certified engineer in the field. He has spent the past 2 ½ decades administering and supporting a wide range of clients and has helped position Network Management, Inc. as a leader in the IT Managed Services space.

Rafiq has built a reputation for designing, building and supporting top notch IT infrastructures to match the business objectives and goals of his clients.

Embracing the core values of integrity, innovation, and reliability, Rafiq has a very loyal client base with some customer relationships dating back 20+ years.

Rafiq holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and has completed graduate programs in Software Engineering and Business at Harvard and George Mason University. Rafiq is a former founder and CEO of Automation, Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan as well as a valued speaker on entrepreneurship and technology at industry events such as ExpoTech and others.