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CLICK TO WATCH : SCT BROMELTON LAUNCH VIDEO 93 had worked with SAP solutions throughout his career and wasn ’ t willing to give up on the world-renowned ERP platform just yet . “ The transformation could have gone belly up , but working with some key support organisations , as well as staff and executives right up to Peter Smith , we ’ ve kept SAP and turned the whole environment around .”
Fast forward to today , and proper , collaborative development of the platform is actually saving the firm money . “ That journey of transformation through a technology platform is now starting to pay dividends to the business , and year-on-year , I ’ m successfully taking costs out of the IT business .” Far from cutting corners or laying off staff , these savings have been made simply by changing the way SCT operates .
“ We ’ ve in-sourced our support rather that outsourcing ,” Atchinson explains . “ We ’ ve also renegotiated with core partners and gone into new commercial contracts which have allowed us to save money by utilising the technology better than we previously have . For a CIO , it ’ s a rare opportunity to come in where something ’ s failing and be able
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