Computacenter Launches Hardware Solutions to Improve Procurement, Performance, Supply Chain Performance and Portfolio Management Processes

Computacenter has launched a new portfolio of business enhancement solutions to remove the burden associated with procuring and administrating hardware, and to improve performance, supply chain, and delivery services throughout the hardware lifecycle.

Through customer feedback as well as research and development, Computacenter identified core ‘pain points’ in an IT departments activities and designed a range of offerings that will help customers better plan IT product strategy and streamline complex and diverse product portfolios. Ultimately, customers will achieve optimum results at a low total-cost-of-ownership for the 50% of IT budget that is typically spent on hardware.

Focussing on four key areas – commercial, performance, supply chain, and portfolio management – Computacenter’s business offerings include:

• Commercial Solutions: Computacenter’s commercial portfolio significantly reduces cost and increases efficiency by helping its customers to find the best products, at best price, through cost-effective procurement methods.  To meet today’s demands of e-commerce, customers can benefit from using the increasingly popular e-tendering and auction method of procurement, and Computacenter’s web-shop ‘CC Connect’ to take end-to-end control of the entire purchasing process. Additionally, Computacenter’s new ‘CC Recommends’ proposition will aid customers to select a slick portfolio comprising of flagship hardware products that have been chosen for their availability, compatibility, innovation, longevity, price, quality and stability.   Computacenter’s experts can also offer impartial advice on how to best fund the technology.

Computacenter also recently launched its Home Computing Initiative so companies can enjoy considerable organisational tax-savings, improve the IT skills of employees, and introduce an additional employee benefit scheme through this government led incentive.

• Performance Improvement: Computacenter’s reputable Performance Improvement Professionals analyse and identify where process improvements can be made within an organisation, implement the changes, determine training needs and deliver training programmes to meet those requirements.  Computacenter’s projects deliver a return on investment of at least 3:1 within the first year.
• Supply Chain Services: Computacenter’s Operations Centre offers bespoke services from asseting, inventory management, stock holding, and the delivery of items through to building, configuring, and acceptance-testing desktops, mobile devices and servers. This range of services has been designed to enhance quality assurance, increase control and ensure the chosen technology runs optimally within the IT environment.
• Portfolio Management: Computacenter removes the disruption and hassles associated with portfolio management, and ensures continuity and consistency by completely managing desktop PC’s, laptops and peripheral products from evaluation, through to introduction into a business (including compatibility testing), in-life management of the product, through to disposal and once again evaluation. The Solutions Centre provides a multi-vendor proof of concept facility to fully test, stage and prove new technologies prior to deployment in a live environment.

“We have listened to the key challenges that our customers face today in the IT domain. Having applied our wealth of experience and knowledge to develop a portfolio of solutions that will enable our customers to meet these demands, they will now benefit from the most innovative and streamlined solutions, that can be delivered at a quicker-time-to-market, at a cost-effective price, at no risk”, commented Ed Kenny,  Corporate Hardware Business Unit, Computacenter.