If you’re like many manufacturers in the US and around the world, COVID-19 has disrupted your supply chain significantly. Many of our partners have spent the recent weeks evaluating which of their Suppliers in China and other parts of Asia have stopped shipments. Evaluating how this will affect your manufacturing operations in the US and other facilities around the world can be a cumbersome task. The impact on the delivery of products that this global pandemic has produced cannot be understated. By proactively leveraging these COVID-19 resources, your business can be better prepared than businesses reacting to the latest industry disruption.
Discounted Consulting
In an effort to address the increasing call for our services and the remote requirements businesses currently need to adopt, we’ve expanded our emphasis on remote consulting and implementation services. This slower time could be an opportunity, while people have the bandwidth, to prepare to scale up for future growth.
You can tailor these combined training seminars and implementation services to topics specific to projects currently underway or planned in your organization. The benefit of combining these two services remotely results in better use of your time and money.
We are also offering discounted consulting blocks to make these services more easily available to businesses.
Cycle Count Workshops
Streamlining inventory management through effective cycle counting can do away with show-stopping inventory activities at the end of the year when flu-season and holiday social gatherings are in full effect.
Work smarter, not harder, and instate a policy that ensures your organization is prepared throughout the year with accurate and effective inventory management.
Production And Delivery Analysis
Our consultants increasingly hear from the board room regarding how outside vendors, salespeople on the road, and visiting customers could potentially bring nasty bugs into their facilities. It’s a legitimate concern and carrying out predictive analytics is an undertaking where Encompass Solutions is happy to lend a hand. Together, we can sit down and take the time to figure out how you can stay in business during an uncertain time, remain profitable, and protect your staff.
Want help creating your own alternate production and sales plan for the next 90 to 180 days? You’ve likely got many questions revolving around how operations and production will change moving forward. We can help you answer and develop plans in regard to the following questions:
- What products were imported in the last 90 or 180 days?
- How will limited supplies impact their production?
- How will this impact open sales orders and forecasted sales?
- Which customer accounts will be hit the hardest?
- How will this affect revenue?
Leveraging Remote Meetings
For many, remote work is a concept that difficult to manage within the current structure of their organization. We’ve mastered the art of remote work with our partners and can help your organization get a handle on the most efficient ways to leverage remote resources and staff.
Encompass offers remote support via Zoom on a daily basis to organizations across the globe. Let us lend a hand in helping you set up and manage your workforce remotely when needed. We’ll assist you to manage your data in such a way that facilitates lag-free, streaming audio and video sharing, suggest the best situations when staff should stay at their desks vs a group in the conference room, how to manage audio if there are multiple users on laptops in the same room, downloading recorded Zoom sessions, and more.
Ultimately, in a worst-case scenario, you may decide that your teams should work remotely for a period of time. We’ll help you develop and implement the Zoom and Webex best practices that fit your organization’s structure. You can maintain that framework and adjust it as time goes on.
Alternate Plans For Production And Sales
Ensure your production floor and sales activities remain in operation, regardless of the current climate, through the development of alternatives based on projected 90-day and 180-day forecasts.
- How will limited supplies impact their production?
- How will this impact open sales orders and forecasted sales?
- Which customer accounts will be hit the hardest?
- How will this affect revenue?
If you have asked yourself any of the following questions over the last few weeks, it may be worthwhile to formulate alternatives in the event your trading partners cannot fulfill their obligations for one reason or another. Reach out to Encompass today and we’ll work with you to ensure you have an effective plan in place prior to the next big disruption.
Encompass Small Business COVID-19 Resources
Encompass Small Business COVID-19 Resources can assist in completing projects, evaluating and renovating new or existing systems, as well as providing managed services to supplement limited workforce scenarios.
- Offers:
- ESI Discounted Consulting – claim significant discounts on Encompass Solutions’ remote services between now and the end of April 2020.
- Content:
- The Benefits In Dry Docking Your Business – examples from our senior consultant David Sullivan on what kind of projects you can complete or enact now to put your businesses in a better position when the dust settles.
- Maintaining Project Continuity – Encompass Operations Lead Dave Cranshaw makes the case for continuing with in-progress projects rather than pivoting in a disruptive environment.
- Webinar: Keep Your Orders Moving Amid COVID-19 Disruption — Scheduled for April 14, 2020 you can register for your seat to this informative event presented by the supply chain experts at SourceDay.
US Small Business Administration Guidance & Loan Information
Emergency Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program
Small businesses and private nonprofits are now eligible to apply for the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. The working capital loans of up to $2 million can provide vital economic support to small businesses and nonprofits to help overcome the temporary loss of revenue they are experiencing.
CARES Act
Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act
Payroll Protection Program (PPP) Loans
Payroll Protection Program Loans were put into effect April 3, 2020, to provide small businesses with loan funds to maintain their workforce and keep their employees paid. You can read more about the program Here.
Employment Law Changes
Effective April 2, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act mandates paid sick leave, paid family and medical leave and enhanced unemployment compensation benefits.
Click Here for downloadable workplace posters from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Council of Development Finance Agencies Weekly Briefing
Fridays, at 1 p.m. — These one-hour phone calls will feature legislative updates, news from our members, state and local financing strategies, and lessons learned from previous development finance responses to disasters.
Click Here for more information.
Taxes
Federal: The IRS has automatically extended payment deadlines until July 15, 2020, with some exceptions. The filing deadline is still April 15.
US Chamber of Commerce Coronavirus Response Toolkit
Click Here to access guides for employment law changes, workplace safety information and other resources.
US Chamber Coronavirus Emergency Loans Small Business Guide and Checklist
Ready.Gov Disaster and Emergency Resources Businesses
Click Here for disaster planning for businesses.
COVID-19 Resources For Control And Prevention
It should be noted that first and foremost, you and your staff should be taking all available precautions to minimize the spread of infectious disease in and out of the workplace. While we are adopting our own standards for the health and safety of our staff at Encompass, we don’t feel it is prudent to make suggestions to our partners and other businesses. Join us in following the suggestions of the professionals and research the best practices.
United States Department Of Labor – Occupational Health And Safety Administration
Centers For Disease Control And Prevention
The United States Food and Drug Administration
We hope you will continue to remain safe and take the necessary precautions to ensure the safety of your families, friends, colleagues, and communities.
About Encompass Solutions
Encompass Solutions is a business and software consulting firm that specializes in ERP systems, EDI, and Managed Services support for Manufacturers and Distributors. Serving small and medium-sized businesses since 2001, Encompass modernizes operations and automates processes for hundreds of customers across the globe. Whether undertaking full-scale implementation, integration, and renovation of existing systems, Encompass provides a specialized approach to every client’s needs. By identifying customer requirements and addressing them with the right solutions, we ensure our clients are equipped to match the pace of Industry.
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