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Balance Your Sourcing Strategies
Do you have a sourcing strategy? How do you determine which technical areas should be considered for outsourcing or insourcing? How do you compare a vendor’s sourcing capabilities against your internal abilities? How do you manage an Outsourcing or Insourcing effort? How do you build relationships with vendors you elect to outsource to?

Sourcing IT functions has become a common consideration in today’s IT organizations. Determining what functions should be outsourced, co-sourced, out-tasked, or even insourced requires balancing your internal capabilities and costs with those a vendor may be able to perform more efficiently.

At Aeritae, we understand the importance of managing your sourcing initiatives. Aeritae believes attaining the appropriate balance of sourced functions is critical to successfully meeting your business requirements of IT. Being prepared to evaluate, monitor and leverage your sourcing partners is essential to maintaining this balance.

Major benefits include:

Aeritae’s Value Proposition
Aeritae provides the leadership for your insourcing, outsourcing, or co-sourcing transitions. Whether you are sourcing a single IT function or an entire IT organization, we effectively plan these transitions with you.

Our consultants have real-world experience managing outsourcing and insourcing initiatives. By providing the leadership to guide your teams on these significant efforts, Aeritae can help you successfully transition to an external solution or bring it back in house. We know how to help you develop and compare an internal business case with a vendor’s offerings so you can make the best decision for your organization.

Building effective relationships is critical to successful sourcing. Our governance strategies and measurements ensure success.

Aeritae can help you to find the right balance of sourcing.

The 4 Ws of Sourcing
Where should you start? What do you need? Why should you work with Aeritae? When should you begin?
Aeritae can provide the expertise to help you evaluate your own abilities and compare them to an outsourcer’s offerings. We will help you determine if sourcing makes sense for your IT organization. Developing your strategy is an ongoing balancing act. We provide the skills necessary to ensure your company’s stability in assessing your abilities and evaluating them against an outsourcer’s offering.

Specific services offered by Aeritae include:

Getting There Doesn’t Have to be Painful
We have real-world expertise to help you develop, manage and maintain your sourcing efforts. Our proven techniques will guide your evaluation of sourcing options to determine the blend of vendor management required to really optimize your IT organization. We achieve this by being vendor agnostic yet bringing specific vendor technology domain expertise and external service provider knowledge to the table. We leverage our arms-length perspective to review and assess client options, recommending the right balance of internally developed solutions and externally purchased services.

Strategic sourcing is a journey. As your business needs and circumstances change, your strategy should be reviewed, modified and ‘nurtured’. We can help you find the balance between costs, capabilities, risks, and benefits to successfully manage your sourcing strategy.