Welcome to Vendor-Tech

Vendor-Tech is a chimera.

Its head is an information resource, focused on improving your operations and technology. You’ll get a monthly newsletter and weekly technology tips. You’ll get technology alerts and referrals. You’ll also get a quarterly one-on-one call with Gregg, the resident technology and operations expert. There will be surveys, with data coming back exclusively to Vendor-Tech members. Vendor-Tech will focus on process. You all have lots of great people and products, but process links those together to make a successful business.

Its body, and perhaps its soul, is a peer networking group focused on operations. You will be grouped with 10-20 non-competing businesses in a node. That node will have its own email community. Nodes will have a monthly facilitated conference call to address some issue of operations and technology. In addition, questions can be escalated to the entire Vendor-Tech network when necessary, letting you access a far larger peer knowledge base. As appropriate we can schedule a get together to let you meet your peer group and tour each other’s operations and/or world class operations.

We’ll work out the tail later…

Here’s what you’ll get if you join Vendor-Tech:
•    Weekly tech tip (short email).  Might be an interesting/useful website, a way to get more out of your PC, or a neat gadget.
•    Monthly newsletter (longer, more in-depth treatment)
•    Surveys with data reports
•    Quarterly one-on-one calls with Gregg Marshall
•    Technology alerts and referrals based on individual needs
•    30% discount on Gregg’s consulting
•    Participation in a peer networking group of 10-20 non-competitive companies (called nodes).  Each has:

•    Monthly conference call (discussion topics decided in advance)
•    Its own dedicated email distribution listserv for asking and answering questions

•    Annual or semi-annual meet-ups with tours of industry facilities and best in world operations (e.g. FedEx super hub in Memphis)

We've added a number of resources in the members only section.  Non-members can view the menu options, but can't access the content.  The menu options all point to pages of links to further information.  Over the next few weeks we'll be adding more content to the members only section.