VAR Services
Create Value: Supporting Manufacturers through end-to-end IT estate management
To ensure our manufacturing customers get the most out of their technology investments we offer a number of Value Add Reseller (VAR) Services which benefit organisations through tailored technology solutions, expert consultation, strong vendor partnerships and the ability to quickly scale to meet the diverse needs of their businesses. By leveraging SCC's VAR expertise, manufacturers can enhance their operational efficiency, improve customer experience and drive business growth in an increasingly competitive landscape.
SCC's networking capabilities for manufacturing customers are tailored solutions crafted with in-depth product knowledge. We provide services such as installation, configuration and ongoing support, to ensure smooth operations across offices, warehouses and factories. Acting as trusted advisors, SCC offers strategic guidance on networking investments, keeping abreast of industry trends. Partnering with leading vendors enables access to cutting-edge technology at competitive prices.
Our solutions are scalable and flexible, accommodating the unique needs of manufacturing businesses. With a consultative approach, we deliver end-to-end networking solutions, which empower manufacturing customers to enhance customer experiences and drive business growth.
Our solutions are focused in the following areas:
Local Area Networking (LAN)
Wireless
SD-WAN
Maintenance and managed services
Network Security
With a dedicated specialist software team aligned to our software accounts, customers can benefit from end-to-end support in maximising the value from their software investments. Our services can drive cost savings for our manufacturing customers by right sizing licensing contracts, negotiating costs and offering software payment agreements, which allow organisations to spread the cost of their purchases and renewals.
Our ITAM services have been created to help manufacturers invest in and maintain their IT assets by maximising visibility, efficiency and prioritising their organisational needs. They remove the burden and expense of monitoring IT estates from customer's staff by amalgamating all software and hardware information for all technology types into one platform. Giving a single view of the IT estate, what assets they have, where they are, their support contracts, lifespan and renewals information.
Our solutions include:
Software Asset Management
Hardware Asset Management
Cloud FinOps
GreenOps
As consumer expectations are increasingly favouring greener solutions, manufacturing organisations are facing pressures to deliver their services more sustainability or lose customers and market share. One avenue for carbon reduction is to utilise the latest in technology advancements, however with the current economic climate that is ever-changing and uncertain, many organisations are having to innovate on a limited budget.
At SCC we work to relieve the cost strain associated with staying ahead of competitors, by providing payment solutions which deliver flexibility and agility for technology purchases, allowing manufacturing organisations to invest in new technology in a sustainable way and release the value from past investments.
We have a range of services that utilise our relationships with trusted financial institutions and vendors, including:
Anything ‘as a Service’
Value Release Service
Software Payment Agreement.
As technology becomes increasingly connected and IT estates more complex, finding the skills for short term IT projects, can often be difficult and expensive. SCC's Flex resourcing offers tailored made resourcing solutions to assist manufacturing customers in delivering critical business outcomes.
Utilising automation technology and our specialist staff, we can quickly find skilled resource to support our customers in the delivery of their short and long term goals.
Outcomes we enable:
In early 2020, British Steel were acquired by China’s leading steelmaker and multinational conglomerate, Jingye Group. Following this acquisition, an assessment was carried out to identify business improvements. This included a review of their current IT contracts, which highlighted that British Steel had a data centre service that they had no control of.
British Steel’s data was spread across two data centres with a significant amount of legacy IBM equipment in use. This data centre service was mission-critical to the efficient running of the business, however British Steel had no transparency into what the service consisted of and they were at risk of paying more than they should be. There was a need to review and migrate data and to regain control of their infrastructure to support future transformation.
They were looking for a partner to support them in migrating the existing data centre service into their own greenfield data centre environment. Jingye Group wanted to bring control and management of IT in-house. SCC were chosen to deliver this data centre migration project.
Our skills, knowledge and experience of developing tailored bids was key to SCC winning the British Steel contract. The solution for British Steel included the purchase of a new data centre and a combination of the right technologies and vendor support to build this out. This included the supply of integral technologies including servers, networking and security. SCC worked with our vendor partners Nutanix, Aruba, Veritas, Palo Alto and IBM to build the correct solution for the customer.
SCC’s Professional Services team worked closely with British Steel to ensure we could meet their needs. Utilising previous experience in data centre migrations, the SCC team proposed a number of technology solutions until one was found to meet their requirement. This previous experience enabled SCC to de-risk the migration for the customer. This highlighted the importance of the solution delivery and so the team planned for migrating the data centre environment in the least disruptive way possible, to prevent interruptions to British Steel’s day-to-day production.
We have replicated the disaster recovery that was built into their previous environment and created a new back up solution for both new and existing legacy environments, covered by Veritas. Our strong vendor partner relationships helped us to mitigate supply chain issues which would have affected the delivery schedule for this project.
British Steel now have a platform that they can use to manage their own data centre environment an build out in the future as and when they need to.
