Are You Paying Too Much?

Are You Paying Too Much?

Assessing the true cost of your ERP and IT contract resources

According to industry experts, IT professionals’ salaries are expected to increase an average of 2.8% in 2007. Project Managers and Quality Assurance Analysts will see over a 4% increase in salary.

As costs and investment levels are rising, it’s more important than ever to ensure your ERP and IT resources are contributing to the long-term sustainable competitiveness of your organization.

But actual costs of your outsourced ERP and IT talent run higher than just salary. To gain a true picture of costs, businesses need to account for:

• Costs of finding the right ERP consultants, including time spent preparing job descriptions, reviewing resumes, interviewing candidates, as well as advertising fees.
• Cost of delaying projects while searching for required talent.
• Cost of wrong hires, including costs and time delays associated with termination and replacement before project completion.
• Reduced productivity during the learning curve for new team members.
• Cost of retaining talent during project downtime.
• Cost of failed knowledge transfer as consultants cycle on and off projects.

The ERP consulting or resource acquisition firm you work with can make a significant difference in the value to your organization. While the large consulting firms may present a seductively appealing sales pitch, too often clients experience lower-than-promised results and much higher costs.

• Enormous overheads and profit margins unclearly represented in the costs passed onto clients.
• Over promising and under delivering, exceeding budgets and substituting junior ERP consulting talent.
• Perpetuation of client dependence with ineffective knowledge transfer.

Achieving more value from your ERP and IT resources

The ERP consultants you hire must empower your organization. This requires access to top-tier expertise that will ultimately provide your firm with effective knowledge transfer – quickly, and at lower costs.

Many firms that work with SophLogic find they can reduce costs by as much as 50%. They report even greater value over the long term, deriving the benefit of our emphasis on the convictions that guide our uniquely effective ERP consulting services:

• Subject Matter Experts with the industry experience to solve critical issues quickly – no ‘juniors’ who are billed at expert-level rates.
• Transparency in communications and costs – improve your ability to meet targeted deadlines and budgets.
• Effective knowledge transfer – our end goal is to transfer the knowledge to the client, to equip our clients to meet future challenges.

Enlist SophLogic today to ensure your ERP resources contribute the greatest value to your organization’s bottom line and future growth.

Contact us today to learn how SophLogic can deliver the value and results your business needs.