How much do you think the snow is costing us right now?
Last year the Federation of Small Businesses estimated that the snow cost UK businesses around £1.2bn.
Employees not making it into work, suppliers not being able to get the information they need from you to fulfil your orders and customers not being able to get their stuff from you. It’s all very frustrating and a bit of a vicious circle.
It’s also something that here at Project-Extranet we know we can help with. Take Lee’s business, Foremost Magnets for example, a client of ours here at Project-Extranet. Last year, with a bulging order book of print work to deliver before Christmas, the snow left him with a stable of designers waiting for briefs and a print shop waiting for final artwork proofs while couriers languished on various parts of the UK’s crumbling infrastructure.
This year Lee is not going to be one of the 2000 to 3000 businesses that fail because of having to shut down operations. Last year he came to us for an Extranet solution that allows his customers, designers and suppliers to collaborate via a branded Extranet portal.
It’s satisfying to know that, a year later, Project-Extranet is helping his business keep trading. And getting his employees to work on time? Sadly, clever technology solutions can only go so far... a Land Rover does the rest!
