To reduce ongoing costs, you need to rationalise the set of production systems, shutting down those that are no longer needed. This is often easier said than done as there are invariably many dependencies on a legacy production system some of which only become apparent when shutdown is attempted. Staffing such projects is often a challenge, as there is a natural drive to allocate in-house resources towards activities which enable new business or greater scale. A team from Excelian can take responsibility for decommissioning projects:
- Quickly gaining an understanding of the legacy system, its interfaces and dependencies
- Formulating a safe and effective shutdown plan
- Executing the plan to agreed timescales
- Releasing project and support staff for business development activities.