Profit Solutions: Business Services

	Planning for Growth Business Plans Feasibility Studies Supply Chain Consulting IT/Reporting Tools/Website Development
Business Plans Recognizing that businesses and business owner are unique, Profit Solutions provides customized business planning for start-ups and established businesses who are seeking to expand. If you're just starting out in business, a written business plan can help you organize all the pieces that will have to come together to make your business a success. A business hoping to expand its operations in some way can achieve the same benefits. A well-established business trying to grow out of a business-as-usual rut can use a plan as a modeling tool to examine various options before committing to one. See example below for the contents of a typical robust business plan. Sample Business Plan Table of Contents
Feasiblity Studies Profit Solutions has experience doing feasibility studies for new businesses, as well as business expansions into new markets, new products, etc. Some of the areas these studies include are marketing research, an analysis of the competitive landscape, and pro forma financial statements.
Supply Chain Consulting For those businesses having multiple outlets and inventory locations, the root causes to lost profits and inhibiters to growth may be in the way the total supply chain is being managed. A thorough Supply Chain Analysis is often needed to address limits to growth and profitability. An analysis of the flow of goods and/or services across your business may reveal significant opportunities for reduced costs, increased efficiencies and greatly improved levels of customer service. Typical sources of value from a Supply Chain Analysis and solution range from 10% to 20% reduction in inventory and similar increases in efficiencies. The Analysis reviews the business processes for acquiring raw materials, their conversion to finished goods and distribution/shipping processes to customers or agents. Going beyond the financials, our Consultants have extensive Supply Chain optimization experience and can implement best business practices for managing the supply chain and recommend software solutions where appropriate.
Information Technology / Reporting Tools Business software, correctly implemented, can make any business more efficient and competitive. Business software can be as simple as QuickBooks for basic accounting functions to multi-user enterprise resource planning systems like SAP. Additionally, many businesses have valid concerns about the security of their data and intellectual property. Possessing over 35 years of software consulting, our Consultants can help select and implement the software solution that best fits the needs of the business. The steps involved in a typical project include… · Defining requirements · Assisting with software vendor selection · Implementing the software · Providing training and on-going support QuickBooks and other Basic Accounting Systems Doing routine bookkeeping tasks and paperwork by hand is time consuming — and it's easy for important items to slip through the cracks. With QuickBooks or similar accounting systems, activities such as paying bills, printing checks, invoicing customers, tracking expenses and even payroll can be made fast, simple and accurate. Starting with building a complete chart-of-accounts, Profit Solutions can assist by installing and configuring accounting software according to business requirements. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems For larger businesses having multiple outlets, sales offices and inventory locations, an enterprise-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution can optimize the delivery of goods and services throughout the business – customers through suppliers – to reduce costs, increase return on investment and improve customer service levels. Profit Solutions can help in the selection, implementation and training of enterprise-wide ERP solutions. Security Profit Solutions offers many services surrounding the security of your facility, in regards to both physical and logical access. Our consultants have experience from basic firewall implementation to data encryption (PKI infrastructure), and smart card and biometric deployment. Website Development A company web site has multiple advantages – creating awareness of your company, generating business leads, increasing sales and retaining existing customers. The company web site should reflect a sound business and marketing strategy. Too often, web sites are developed by IT consultants who do not clearly understand the business. An effective web site development should…. 1. Drive traffic to the site, 2. Create solid business leads, 3. Qualify leads, 4. Assist in closing business, and 5. Support customers after the sale Profit Solutions implements web sites as part of a thorough understanding of the aims of the owners and managers by combining business and technology skills to create a company web site that best supports the goals of the business.

Planning for Growth
Business Plans
Feasibility Studies
Supply Chain Consulting
IT/Reporting Tools/Website Development

Business Plans

Recognizing that businesses and business owner are unique, Profit Solutions provides customized business planning for start-ups and established businesses who are seeking to expand. If you're just starting out in business, a written business plan can help you organize all the pieces that will have to come together to make your business a success. A business hoping to expand its operations in some way can achieve the same benefits. A well-established business trying to grow out of a business-as-usual rut can use a plan as a modeling tool to examine various options before committing to one. See example below for the contents of a typical robust business plan.

Sample Business Plan Table of Contents

Feasiblity Studies

Profit Solutions has experience doing feasibility studies for new businesses, as well as business expansions into new markets, new products, etc. Some of the areas these studies include are marketing research, an analysis of the competitive landscape, and pro forma financial statements.

Supply Chain Consulting

For those businesses having multiple outlets and inventory locations, the root causes to lost profits and inhibiters to growth may be in the way the total supply chain is being managed. A thorough Supply Chain Analysis is often needed to address limits to growth and profitability. An analysis of the flow of goods and/or services across your business may reveal significant opportunities for reduced costs, increased efficiencies and greatly improved levels of customer service. Typical sources of value from a Supply Chain Analysis and solution range from 10% to 20% reduction in inventory and similar increases in efficiencies. The Analysis reviews the business processes for acquiring raw materials, their conversion to finished goods and distribution/shipping processes to customers or agents. Going beyond the financials, our Consultants have extensive Supply Chain optimization experience and can implement best business practices for managing the supply chain and recommend software solutions where appropriate.

Information Technology / Reporting Tools

Business software, correctly implemented, can make any business more efficient and competitive. Business software can be as simple as QuickBooks for basic accounting functions to multi-user enterprise resource planning systems like SAP. Additionally, many businesses have valid concerns about the security of their data and intellectual property. Possessing over 35 years of software consulting, our Consultants can help select and implement the software solution that best fits the needs of the business. The steps involved in a typical project include…

· Defining requirements

· Assisting with software vendor selection

· Implementing the software

· Providing training and on-going support

QuickBooks and other Basic Accounting Systems

Doing routine bookkeeping tasks and paperwork by hand is time consuming — and it's easy for important items to slip through the cracks. With QuickBooks or similar accounting systems, activities such as paying bills, printing checks, invoicing customers, tracking expenses and even payroll can be made fast, simple and accurate. Starting with building a complete chart-of-accounts, Profit Solutions can assist by installing and configuring accounting software according to business requirements.

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

For larger businesses having multiple outlets, sales offices and inventory locations, an enterprise-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution can optimize the delivery of goods and services throughout the business – customers through suppliers – to reduce costs, increase return on investment and improve customer service levels. Profit Solutions can help in the selection, implementation and training of enterprise-wide ERP solutions.

Security

Profit Solutions offers many services surrounding the security of your facility, in regards to both physical and logical access. Our consultants have experience from basic firewall implementation to data encryption (PKI infrastructure), and smart card and biometric deployment.

Website Development

A company web site has multiple advantages – creating awareness of your company, generating business leads, increasing sales and retaining existing customers. The company web site should reflect a sound business and marketing strategy. Too often, web sites are developed by IT consultants who do not clearly understand the business. An effective web site development should….

1. Drive traffic to the site,

2. Create solid business leads,

3. Qualify leads,

4. Assist in closing business, and

5. Support customers after the sale

Profit Solutions implements web sites as part of a thorough understanding of the aims of the owners and managers by combining business and technology skills to create a company web site that best supports the goals of the business.

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