Value Added Reseller (VAR) Services
Create Value: Supporting Retailers through end-to-end IT estate management
To ensure our customers get the most out of their technology investments we offer a number of Value Add Services which benefit retailers through the delivery of tailored technology solutions, expert consultation, strong vendor partnerships and the ability to quickly scale to meet the diverse needs of retail businesses. By leveraging SCC's VAR expertise, retail clients can enhance their operational efficiency, improve customer experience, and drive business growth in an increasingly competitive retail landscape.
SCC's networking capabilities for retail customers are tailored solutions crafted with in-depth product knowledge. They provide services such as installation, configuration and ongoing support, ensuring smooth operations in retail environments. 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 retail businesses. With a consultative approach, we deliver end-to-end networking solutions, which empower retail clients 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, retailers can benefit from end-to-end support in maximising the value from their software investments.
Our services can drive cost savings for our retail 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 retailers to 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.
Our platform gives retailers 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
Retailers are facing pressures to meet the demands of today's digital generation and deliver a more technology enhanced customer experience. However, the current economic climate that is ever-changing and uncertain means they 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 retailers 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 travel, transport and logistics 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:
Brewers have a deep attachment for their original head office location and wanted to remain this legacy despite a requirement for a widescale Wi-Fi upgrade. The Wi-Fi was currently not correctly designed at their head office, it was aged and need redesigning and heatmapping to ensure they had full coverage across the head office and the main warehouse. Additionally, Brewers needed to upgrade the Wi-Fi and install new counter terminals across their 190+ branches across the UK.
SCC provided a Wi-Fi upgrade to their head office, main warehouse and new structured cabling and deployment of counter terminals, along with ongoing Wi-Fi and cabling to any and every new branch that Brewers open going forwards.
SCC initially conducted a heatmapping exercise to understand the challenges the customer was facing with their Wi-Fi coverage. For cabling for the head office and warehouse, improvements have been made to the upgraded new kit, with better aesthetics. It was a case of needing a full redesign of structured cabling, with it being such an unstructured cabling environment. It also required significant investment, not only in cabling, but also with new communications cabinets, as a move to a hybrid working structure following the pandemic, was stretching the current capabilities. They needed to have stronger, more efficient Wi-Fi coverage that worked and operated properly and effectively.
Brewers growth strategy is to open 20 new branches a year and by working with SCC, they have no built a foundation for each new branch to have terminals, meraki aps, structured cabling and more efficient, effective and reliable Wi-Fi coverage.
Moving forward, Brewers now have standardisation of practices across the branches and in the long term this will give an overall reduction in cost and we will bring savings through this, by driving costs and commercials down.
There will also be major efficiency gains with improved performance for customers and employees across the business via improved, quicker, faster, better and stronger Wi-Fi and improved collaboration within the business for employees.
