Balanced Sourcing and Offshore Advisory

ONSITE CONSULTING

Workshops

Workshops are custom designed to address the issues specific to your organization. They include an unlimited number of participants, and can be held onsite, or via Web conferencing.

Sourcing Assessments

Our team of expert Senior Consultants will study the area you are considering out- or insourcing. We'll interview all those involved in the project, including project managers, metrics specialists, line of business managers, implementors, process specialists, quality personnel, and finance professionals. The team will then help you identify the appropriate options and help you derive a short list of potential vendors, including their strengths and weaknesses.

Vendor Selection

3A`s Consultants's Sourcing team can help you write RFPs that will elicit proposals that meet your requirements. We'll help evaluate the proposals that result from the RFP and make recommendations based on those proposals and our experience with similar sourcing deals. Our Senior Consultant(s) will mentor your internal team throughout the evaluation and negotiation process.

Metrics Program Development

Software metrics are a vital tool for managing your sourcing arrangements. Our experts can help you jumpstart your metrics program, develop a productivity baseline and give you a clear picture of the state of your business at the time you sign a sourcing contract. From there, you'll have the tools you need to compare how well your service provider meets the target service levels you've set on cost, schedule, and reliability year after year.

Implementation Support

Our Team is prepared to help you throughout the lifetime of your sourcing agreement. We can help negotiate the contract, renegotiate to incorporate changes in scope, and our team can serve as a mediator, if necessary. We'll provide you guidance and make recommendations about appropriate measures and milestones, service level agreements, and statements of work. We'll also help you develop reporting mechanisms that ensure your service provider's performance is meeting your requirements and standards.

Mediation/Review

The Senior Consultants on the Team's Sourcing Advisory Service are ready to step in and mediate a partnership that's gone awry. They'll review your contract, make recommendations for compromise and/or getting back on track, and help define an exit strategy for your enterprise if necessary.

Offshore Due Diligence

The offshore outsourcing specialists on 3A-Strategy's Sourcing Advisory Service are prepared to lead trips to India for client companies that are investigating offshore opportunities. The Consultants will prequalify service providers, highlighting those that have the capability to meet your requirements. We can then create an itinerary, saving you preparation time, and do preliminary onsite due diligence for you.

OFFSITE CONSULTING

Clients can choose to take advantage of the Team's offsite consulting option by purchasing e-mail and/or phone consultation services in eight-hour increments. You'll get direct answers from the Senior Consultant of your choice exactly when you need it. This retainer service puts an outside expert on your team for conference calls with vendors, to discuss contract negotiation points, for advice on collecting metrics, and every other topic within the scope of sourcing.

WORKSHOPS & TRAINING

Our extensive curriculum of inhouse workshops can be customized to meet your enterprise's needs. 3A-Strategy's inhouse workshops are developed and presented by its Senior Consultants: the value of disseminating cutting-edge ideas, methods, and skills to your team straight from their source is incomparable.