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Preferred has been serving the Tinley Park area since 1991, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Save Time with Vendor Management

Save Time with Vendor Management

Your business works with a lot of vendors. Each of these vendors requires your time, energy, and resources. Do you have the assets to handle all of them yourself, or would it all be better spent elsewhere on more profitable tasks and projects? Today, we’ll highlight your business’ vendor management options.

Take an Inventory

First, you need a reality check; review your current list of vendors and what they do for your business.

This list should include any vendors you work with for your network infrastructure, your Internet provider, your phone services, your network security vendors, and anything else related to your technology. Of course, you work with a lot of vendors, not just those relating to your technology. It just so happens that technology vendors in particular are time-consuming to work with.

You can’t afford to waste that time.

Your vendors are basically an extension of your business, so if you spot an inefficiency with them, those inefficiencies become your own. Furthermore, poor communication with your vendors is tantamount to poor communication across departments. These are unnecessary problems that can easily be solved.

But first, we want to highlight some of the issues you might face with your vendors.

Navigate Issues with Your Vendors

There are also times when you might experience conflicting priorities with your vendors.

For example, one vendor’s solution might directly impact another application your business relies on. In situations like this, it’s less about the quality of the vendor’s solutions and more about compatibility. You need systems that work in conjunction with one another, not against each other.

These issues only make vendor management even more costly and time-consuming on your business’ part.

Consider Vendor Management Services

Thankfully, you can reduce these problems easily and efficiently with vendor management solutions from Preferred.

Our trusted IT professionals will work to manage your vendors and keep them in line with your organization’s mission and vision. If they aren’t contributing to your operations, we’ll find a better solution. We’ll also work to ensure that you have open lines of communication with them all during your business efforts.

Learn more today by calling us at 708-781-7110.

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