IFMC, Inc. offers its Transportation and Logisitics Technology Audit as a free service.

A transportation and logisitics technology audit is intended to help an organisation identify where its systems are costing more than they need to, do not perform their function effectively, or present a risk to the organisation because of an inability to recover from a loss or corruption of data or disruption to the services they provide. As such, our consultants look not only at the systems themselves, but also at the way the organisation uses them, to determine if they are as efficient and reliable as they should be.

A transportation and logisitics technology audit can be critical to identifying, and thereby remedying any deficiencies in systems before these can harm the organisation. It will tell you, for example, whether your IT spending is effective, whether your systems function as well as they should and whether you could recover from any of a series of mishaps.

Customers get one hour phone consultation to complete the audit. The consultant will spend one hour on the phone working with the management team and the IT department and will look at several areas of the systems. The report prepared by the consultant will:

• Identify any areas of concern that either the management team or IT department have. Views need to be exchanged in confidence with the consultant. By drawing out hidden concerns the audit can help address these issues without creating bad feeling within the organisation.
• Examine licensing, support and maintenance costs and identify where the IT budget is really being spent. This enables organisations to put some key measures in place to determine the cost effectiveness of its systems, an important part of the process of increasing efficiency.
• Determine the functional effectiveness of the systems and whether servers, networks and desktops are correctly specified for the tasks they perform. Often organisations will overspend on technology. This represents wasted investment, that is, for the function it performs it can never deliver a full return on investment. At other times, older systems are unable to cope with the demands placed on them, slowing the organisation, thereby diminishing their return on investment by creating inefficiencies.
• Assess how prepared the organisation is for critical risks, such as server or network outages, or even more serious disasters, such as a fire in the server room. This determines the organisations capability to recover from circumstances outside of its control and assesses the ability of the IT department to restore services.

Contact us to arrange a Free Transportation and Logisitics Technology Audit, and find out how effective and robust your IT systems are.