Buy It or Build It : Biting the Bullet

Here you are, a successful business under you control and expanding to meet your customers’ needs. Your product is in demand and you rely on technology to provide exactly what your customers want. Your product is not one that you can mass-produce: it relies on flexibility in its manufacture. No two orders are identical, even from the same customer.

Now you have a problem.

The Order Entry system that you had to have specially built for you is getting elderly and is no longer able to provide all the flexibility that your current product demands. The original supplier has submerged, so an upgrade is not an option and you are being forced to consider where to get a new system. You have also looked at the ready-made products and cannot find a suitable option that has all you need.

You know you have to bite the bullet or your business will loose out to the competition. And it must happen sooner rather than later.

What is worrying you is that you are not conversant with all the IT jargon. This will be a critical development for your company and it is essential that the new system fully meets you present and future needs. You are concerned that the developer will provide something and that, after all the wait, it will not perform correctly.

You need a friendly helping hand to guide you through the IT procurement process and to ensure that the supplier does provide you with what you and you business need. You need someone who can understand the particular business challenges facing the new system and can communicate them to your supplier.

In short, you need a translator.

Someone who is literate in business and IT; able to provide the interface between your hard-pressed staff and the system supplier; able to apply controls to the development process so that the new system doesn’t cost a fortune.

Won’t that make biting the bullet that much easier?

Precision Design Technology Ltd. can provide all the interface activities you need to take the strain off you so you can concentrate on your business, while we concentrate on enabling you to have a cost effective system for your business.















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