Why outsource your device procurement processes?
How SMEs are maximising their technology spend ROI through smart procurement and deployment
If you’re running a business with multiple team members, you’re likely juggling a healthy mix of devices — from workstations and laptops to mobile phones and printers. As your business grows, your device fleet grows alongside it, and with more devices come increasingly complex business tasks like:
- Managing device providers
- Request for proposal (RFP) or bid management
- Spend management
- Contract negotiation
- Purchasing, configuring and deploying devices
- Disposal at end of life
Outsourcing your device procurement moves all of this juggling to a single provider, who takes over these tasks in a single supply contract. While there are increased costs involved, often the big benefits to your business far outweigh these costs. In this post, we're going to take a look at some of the big benefits that partnering with a technology vendor to manage your device procurement and deployment can make to your business.
Benefit 1: Your assets will be managed on a single supply contract
When you work with a technology provider, like Counterparts, you’ll be able to access end-to-end service for your devices: from procurement to disposal, and every stage in between. In addition, many SLAs include maintenance, support and software licensing to help you truly get the best out of your devices.
Because this is all managed through a single contract, you’ll be able to easily forecast costs to your business and simplify your technology budgets. Through smart planning, your costs will likely be minimised when compared with procuring, configuring and deploying devices internally.
Benefit 2: You’ll free up your ICT team for higher-value activities
Device procurement and deployment often require significant training, education and experience to ensure you’re getting the best value for money. In addition, these operations eat up a significant chunk of your team’s time.
While outsourcing procurement still requires your team to manage the relationship with the new technology vendor, it takes most of the responsibility away from your in-house staff. If you have a small ICT team with limited resources, outsourcing these activities to a third party can be a great solution to take advantage of their expertise, category knowledge and existing supplier relationships.
Benefit 3: You ensure you’re getting the best devices for your team’s requirements
One overlooked benefit to outsourcing is eliminating the risk that your team will purchase devices that aren’t quite right for your team’s business needs. These mistakes can have flow-on consequences for your business — from lost time to the extra budget needed to purchase the right devices.
Third-party vendors can assess your business needs and provide you with recommendations from the wide range of available devices. From there, your vendor can configure each device to meet your security requirements and ensure the device will perform at its best for each team member.
Benefit 4: You can leverage long-standing partnerships with world-class providers
Finally, technology vendors often have close partnerships with the most innovative technology providers. This means they can provide your business with perks like:
- Better pricing
- Innovation workshops
- Regular roadmap and technology updates
- Customised deployment services.
At Counterparts, we are a proud HP Gold Partner which allows us to provide our customers with a completely managed device service, from procurement to disposal. As a Gold Partner, our team is able to access in-depth training and knowledge about every HP device, which in turn ensures you have the best expertise when it comes to managing your device fleet.
Leverage the Counterparts and HP partnership for your business
HP is a global leader in providing forward-thinking businesses with secure, powerful device fleets. Not only that, but HP’s commitment to addressing modern slavery and sustainability in the supply chain puts them ahead of the competition as they combat climate change, protect human rights and accelerate digital equity.
By selecting Counterparts as your trusted technology vendor, your business will be able to leverage a strategic engagement with HP that’s built on transparency, commitment and best-in-class devices. If you’d like to find out more about how Counterparts can manage your HP device procurement and deployment, we’d love to hear from you. Counterparts Technology continues to work hard to supply a diverse range of high-quality hardware and software to our clients, such as the full range of HP devices with Intel®.
We understand that procurement can be a complex process, and difficult to manage. We’ve streamlined our process to provide your business with flexible payment options and cost-efficient solutions. Get in touch with the team at Counterparts for more information.
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