Key Points for Success
Entrance: The IT sector plays a vital role in today's business world. Businesses generally prefer to work with various suppliers in order to use technology effectively and gain competitive advantage. In this article, we will discuss the importance of using suppliers in the IT industry and the key points you need to consider for a successful collaboration.
a. Choosing the Right Supplier
There are some factors you need to consider when choosing a supplier. You should consider your business needs, your budget, the supplier's area of expertise, customer references and reliability. Choosing the right supplier ensures that you work with a partner who can provide technological solutions that will help you achieve your business goals.
The supplier's experience and expertise are important in meeting the specific needs of your business. Based on references, you can verify that the supplier has been successful on previous projects and achieved customer satisfaction. Additionally, working with a reliable and stable supplier ensures the continuity of your business and the timely completion of projects.
b. Good Communication and Collaboration
An important element of being successful in IT projects is good communication and cooperation with the supplier. Clearly articulating your business's expectations, goals and priorities helps the supplier provide appropriate solutions to achieve those goals.
You can use regular meetings and project management processes to keep communication channels open. It is important to ensure clarity, understandability and continuous information sharing in communication. Both parties understanding each other and using a common language plays a critical role in the success of the project.
c. Careful Review of Contracts
When collaborating with a supplier, it is important to carefully review the contract details and make sure both parties understand their rights and responsibilities. You can get professional support to clarify issues such as contract period, pricing, support and maintenance services, warranty period and to determine solutions in case of dispute.
Contract details ensure successful management of the project and harmony between the parties. Clearly stating the rights, obligations and compensation conditions of both parties prevents possible problems in the future.
d. Performance and Quality Control
It is important to regularly check your supplier's performance and product/quality standards. Evaluating against predetermined metrics and performance indicators helps determine whether the supplier complies with the terms of the contract and meets the needs of your business.
Performance and quality control is a critical step to ensure project success. By regularly evaluating factors such as delivery times, customer satisfaction, and product quality, you can work with your supplier to meet your business's needs and provide cost-effective solutions.
e. Continuous Improvement and Evaluation
As your business needs and technology constantly change, it is important that your suppliers adapt to these changes. You should regularly evaluate your suppliers and take into account the feedback to constantly improve your cooperation. By following new technological developments, you can constantly evaluate your suppliers to provide your business with a competitive advantage.
Conclusion: Supplier use in the IT sector is a critical factor for businesses to gain technological advantage and increase their competitiveness. By considering key points such as choosing the right supplier, good communication and collaboration, contract management, performance control and continuous evaluation, you can establish a successful supplier relationship and help your business achieve its goals. Continuously evaluating and improving your suppliers helps your business stay competitive and grow.
Turksat A.Ş. Supplier Management System
Turksat A.Ş. With the aim of becoming the "Public Informatics Solution Centre", we work to produce solutions for the informatics projects needed by public institutions. We provide these solutions with different services according to the needs of public institutions.
In addition to Project Preparation and Technical Specification Consultancy services, in the first step of which consists of determining the technical requirements of the projects and analysing them, we carry out studies on drawing the informatics road map of the institutions with IT Technical Consultancy services. At the same time, all processes of the IT projects of institutions requesting Turnkey Project services are handled by Turksat A.Ş. Projects are implemented and managed by Turksat Bilişim, with the assurance of
Work in this direction is carried out in cooperation with supplier companies. We act with the "Supplier Management System" in order to make our work more efficient.
Supplier Application Process
The process consists of the above stages. Turksat A.Ş. Before applying to the supplier management system, Turksat A.Ş. It is important to examine the fields of activity. The data fields entered during the application will help you better understand and evaluate your company capabilities. In this way, we will together form the basis for future collaborations.
To apply, you can first make your pre-application via the link https://tedarik.turksat.com.tr. Our relevant screen is as follows.
Supplier Audit Process
Some studies are carried out to verify the information requested from the companies that apply for suppliers to Turksat A.Ş. After the Pre-Application is approved, the technical application fields will be waited to be entered and the technical audit process will be initiated after the application is completed. The necessary examinations are carried out by our technical team (it works integrated with the PROJEM* application developed by Turksat Bilişim, and examinations are carried out through the relevant application) through technical audit studies, and the application process is completed, and the rejected application is forwarded to the applicant, stating the reasons, and the relevant deficiencies are resolved. The applicant can follow the application process again.
MY PROJECT: Projects according to the user's authority level (Senior Management, Program Manager, Project Manager, Administrative Personnel, etc.); It is an application that helps manage projects within basic project management knowledge areas such as financial, stakeholder, risk, opportunity and supply management.
In addition, it is a decision support system designed for various business development activity areas such as contract, product and service management and aims to facilitate Portfolio and Project Management.
İbrahim TAŞCI
Customer Relations Specialist
IT Customer Relations Directorate