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Hardware procurement includes buying and deploying new devices across your company. 

A typical procurement cycle includes defining IT requirements, communicating with vendors, overseeing purchase contracts, managing assets and ensuring everything functions properly.

At VISITS, we provide customers with a single point of contact and simplify the strategic sourcing process. We aim to alleviate the stress associated with supply chain management, sourcing and configuring products or services for deployment.

1. Identify your business’ requirements
2. Authorise requests to purchase new hardware
3. Identify suppliers
4. Release bids and tenders to potential suppliers
5. Negotiate costs and services
6. Select your vendor
7. Purchase the equipment
8. Integrate the hardware into your business
9. Create IT procurement metrics and measure KPIs

1. Aim to fulfill your business goals
2. Build and leverage vendor partnerships
3. Identify and mitigate risks
4. Keep your long-term needs in mind

Many organisations often make purchasing decisions based on short-term needs and upfront costs to lower their capital acquisition costs. It’s wise to look at the total cost of ownership when making strategic sourcing of IT products or services. VISITS can support you in getting this right.

• Map your hardware to each user’s job requirements. Provide the right assets for the job requirements or tasks the user is fulfilling.
• When procuring hardware, you should ensure your users have the right tools to maximise productivity and collaboration without duplicating costs and capabilities.
• You ought to accumulate end-user data to identify user groups and what devices, applications, service needs, connectivity requirements and support models they require.
• Don’t take a one size fits all approach. Not every user has the same requirements. Consequently, you might have to assign different technology stacks for each department.

1. The needs addressed by the hardware. For example, if an organisation needs to increase its storage capacity, it must purchase hardware that supports that need.
2. Select hardware compatible with your existing infrastructure. For example, if an organisation uses a Windows-based network, it must purchase compatible hardware.
3. Consider the total cost of ownership when making purchase decisions. The total cost of ownership includes the initial purchase price of the hardware and the costs of operating and maintaining the hardware over its lifetime. 

By considering all these factors, organisations can make sure they purchase the right hardware for their business needs.