Summary

• Supply Chain Strategy

  Supply Chain Strategy

  Supply chain management is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the operations of the supply chain as efficiently as possible.  Vector offers services through its business consultancy practice and through its project management services.
• Logistics

  Logistics

  Logistics is the art of managing the supply chain and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy, information and other resources from the source of production to the marketplace.   Vector works within the logistics industry for international customers.
• ICT Consultancy

  ICT Consultancy

  ICT is a very wide domain.  Vector works with its clients to provide strategic guidance on the design, construction and operation of data centres and fit outs of offices and banks as part of an end to end solution. 
• Training

  Training

  The delivery of complex infrastructure and buildings involves the user’s management and staff being thoroughly prepared to operate the new or enhanced facility effectively.  Vector supports its clients through appropriate operational readiness and training (ORAT) programmes.
• Team Building

  Team Building

  In a changing and competitive environment your people need to work together more.  We offer assistance in the soft elements of projects, the business change elements, through team building.  Pragmatic utilisation of our consultants is cost efficient for our clients.
• PFI and PPP

  PFI and PPP

  PPP involves public and private sectors working in co-operation and partnership to provide infrastructure and services. The UK model, the PFI, is widely developed and very successful. Vector offers a range of international PPP consultancy services.
• Business Appraisal / Start Up

  Business Appraisal / Start Up

  The nucleus of any business appraisal or start up is a comprehensive, robust and bankable business plan.  At Vector we are proud to have taken a leading role in the planning of several new business ventures, disposals, recapitalisations and privatisations. 
• Business Acquisition

  Business Acquisition

  Acquiring a company to build on strengths or weaknesses needs detailed data.  Similarly mergers combine all of the interests of both companies in to a stronger single company.  At Vector we assist our clients in aspects of analysis, evaluation and business planning.
• Technical Due Diligence

  Technical Due Diligence

  Technical Due Diligence can cover many aspects of the evaluation of a business.  Among the core services Vector offers are forecasting income, and evaluating expenditure – capital expenditure (CapEx), operational expenditure (OpEx) and replacement expenditure (RepEx).
• Strategic Business Review

  Strategic Business Review

  Strategic business reviews involve detailed analysis of some or all of the parts of a business and offering practical and achievable proposals for improvement and the planning and co-ordination of an implementation programme.  Vector delivers this through its business consultancy and change management practices.
• Performance Improvement Programme

  Performance Improvement Programme

  Performance is ultimately about achieving growth and profitability desired.  Vector’s PIP identifies areas and issues that need to be addressed to generate a fast improvement in overall performance.
  • Cost and Structure Review

    Cost and Structure Review

    Cost and structure review is important to the commercial management of any project. The project team’s knowledge must to be aligned to achieve value for money. Structured planning is therefore important and our Optimum Solutions Management™ techniques, described below, facilitates this alignment.   
  • Operational Process Review

    Operational Process Review

    At Vector we describe OPR as the analysis and design of workflows and processes with and between organisations. The scope of these reviews can be focused on particular aspects of the operation or can evaluate the end-to-end performance of complete business streams.
  • Process Mapping

    Process Mapping

    Process analysis is an approach that helps managers improve the performance of their business activities.  Vector provides clients with a range of systematic process analysis techniques that will boost operational performance, improve quality effectiveness or enhance their enterprise value chain.
• Optimum Solution Management

  Optimum Solution Management

  Every project has many associated opportunities as well as a series of uncertainties.  Vector promotes the concept of OSM™. This approach is aimed at maximising the overall performance of an organisation while minimising the risks to the business.
  • Value Management

    Value Management

    Value management is concerned with the overall improvement in value to a project and not necessarily savings in cost.  Vector uses specific management tools and techniques in a systematic manner to address issues of value for money both in terms of capital expenditure and ongoing operational costs.
  • Risk Management

    Risk Management

    Risk management is still an undersold and largely under-used concept in the world of project management. At Vector we aim to identify, assess, plan for and manage potential problem areas for a project, thereby eliminating or minimising any detrimental effect on the project’s objectives.
  • Benchmarking

    Benchmarking

    Benchmarking is a process used in management, and particularly strategic management, in which organisations evaluate various aspects of their processes in relation to best practice.  Vector helps organisations to develop plans to adopt such best practice, usually with the aim of increasing some aspect of performance.