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Successful businesses are defined in large part by their employees. To survive in today's increasingly competitive and rapidly-changing world, businesses must ensure that employees have the skills, tools, information, and resources needed to be engaged, effective, and productive. 

Green Beacon's unique combination of technology, people, and process quickly help develop and integrate expert strategies and role based business management software that empowers your employees to be successful business leaders. 

  • IT - You manage the technologies used to run your organization while ensuring that they align with and support the needs of the organization. Although supporting and maintaining legacy systems takes up the majority of your time, you are still required to ensure that these tools are collaborative, secure and agile.

            You need:

    • Simple and efficient reporting tools to manage disparate technologies  
    • Routine maintenance and automated backups to avoid costly downtime 
    • Secure and reliable applications that quickly scale with the organization
  • Finance- Your goal is to maximize corporate value by overseeing the financial decisions for your organization, and monitoring actual performance against these decisions and plans. Executives and Managers rely on the financial evaluations and assessments you make within your company, and you rely on the Controller and on the Account and Operations team to provide the information you need for business insight.

           You need:

    • The capability to synthesize accurate and up-to-date information from all areas of the organization
    • An efficient forecasting tool
    • A flexible reporting and analytics tool
    • The ability to quickly share data with key stakeholders within the organization 
  • Operations - You oversee the timely and cost-effective delivery of products by coordinating efforts with multiple departments within your organization. These include, but are not limited to: the Purchasing, Engineering, Production, Plant Management, and Shipping and Receiving departments.

            You need:

    • Insight into development efforts
    • Access to accurate production data
    • Tools that facilitate inventory tracking
    • The ability to manage and increase manufacturing efforts
    • Capabilities to improve business processes
  • Marketing- You are responsible for generating the strategy that drives business development, manages relationships with existing customers, and provides internal and external communications. You have to monitor the effectiveness and success of your marketing efforts, and build and present business cases to those making decisions.

            You need:

    • Instant access to business development, customer and product/service data
    • Accurate information to pinpoint your marketing efforts
    • The ability to plan, implement, and measure effective campaigns
    • Reports and analytics to facilitate decision-making
  • Sales- You're on the front lines when it comes to driving your company’s growth and profitability. Your teams are responsible for not only acquiring, but also retaining customers. This is even more challenging with increasing customer expectations, global competitors, and fragile market conditions.

            You need:

    • Information from various areas of the organization to facilitate planning and forecasting
    • An easy-to-use system for identifying, tracking and managing opportunities
    • Intuitive tools to gauge performance metrics