Controlling Costs

IT Alternatives has implemented many cost saving solutions for clients. The following examples describe a number of situations that we have solved.

• Situation:  A manufacturing company was spending a lot of money on new software and hardware but not seeing benefits.

Solution:  The client outsourced all their IT department needs to IT Alternatives. Our seasoned consultants analyzed the client's operating needs and provided solutions to meet those specific needs, providing effective, integrated systems. The client also now saves money by purchasing only the services they need when they need them.

• Situation:  One client was experiencing increasing business costs and inefficiencies because of inadequate inventory control. Information flow was ineffective, and during peak periods the client was having to conduct weekly physical inventories to determine their inventory status.

Solution:  IT Alternatives developed a custom bar coding solution that forced integrity at the bin location level, automatically updating the production inventory master and significantly reducing paperwork and the frequency of physical inventories.

• Situation:  A manufacturing company was having to enter customer orders twice, once into their accounting system and again into their equipment controllers. The need for double entry was increasing the time and costs of production and the likelihood of errors.

Solution:  It Alternatives developed a front-end user-friendly interface, which allowed the customer service representatives to enter the data once. The software then generated all the transactions for the accounting system and the equipment controllers. The increased efficiencies saved the client the cost of hiring additional service representatives.