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Our Services

Supporting Decision Makers
of High Value Complex  Programs

SA provides a streamlined approach to management support by providing critical assessments at every step

Program Management / Support Services

Management is always informed, never surprised & understands which decisions need to be made and when  

Program Controls  Management / Assessments

Utilizes predictive methodologies to mitigate risks and drive decisions up to program management

Customized Dashboards

Provides a program health status you can access from any device

Multi-Disciplined Analysts

Creates integrated cost, schedule, and technical assessments with our predictive methodologies

Less people.  Effective results. 

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The SA Difference

SA provides business leaders the ability to make decisions that will

improve the likelihood of meeting stakeholder goals

Typical Controls (Data Reporting)
Predictive Methodologies (Early Warning)
  • Single Subject Matter Experts

  • Accounting Centric financial reports

  • Change order tracking

  • Schedules

  • Invoicing

  • Multi-disciplined Experts

  • Real-time assessed cost impacts based on current events

  • Hip pocket mitigation strategies to offset risks 

  • Schedule stories with assessed risks and strategies

  • Actuals and forecast tracking with schedule and technical in mind

SA provides multi-disciplined analysts specializing in predictive methodologies

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SA Key Services Over a Program’s Life Cycle

Assessments
  • Decision making tools

  • Influence Contracts Management ensuring transparency upon award

  • Set up cost, schedule and technical reporting requirements that enable proactive management

  • Streamline Organizations reducing costs

Concept
  • Budget & Risk management

  • Trade Studies

  • Create and/or test cost estimates 

  • Create and/or test schedules

  • Test Baseline plans to ensure achievable

Design
  • Program Trade Studies

  • Cost Estimate Reviews & Value Engineering

  • Budget and Contingency Sizing

  • Test Cost & Schedule Baseline for achievability 

Construction
  • Contract monitoring

  • Provide on/off ramps & decision timelines to minimize impacts

  • Develop real-time strategies to mitigate issues

  • Facilitate hitting schedule targets with on the ground coordination and communication

Operations & Logistics Planning
  • Create customized functional availability models

  • Size spares requirement in design 

  • Run trade studies on how technical options impact cost and schedule

  • Provide sparing strategy and acquisition schedule that optimizes budget

MULTI-DISCIPLINED ASSESSMENTS TEAM

SA cuts horizontally across technical, cost and schedule data to evaluate problem areas, prior to and during construction.

PREDICTIVE METHODOLOGIES & EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS

SA methodologies highlight decisions that need to be made by the owner to offset risks.  Finding issues early maximizes the ability to minimize the impact to cost and schedule.

CUSTOMIZED DASHBOARDS

SA creates customized dashboards that tell the owner a story.  It's about more than a bunch of data on a page.  It's about interpreting what that data means and highlighting key messages quickly for managements understanding.

PROGRAM CONTROLS MANAGEMENT

SA utilizes all aspects of the company's expertise in the PCM role.  SA streamlines the management approach by simplifying processes, tools and outputs for the typical PC functions.  Utilizing multi-disciplined experts vs. single subject experts allows us to do the job with less people.

TRADE STUDIES & LIFE CYCLE COST ASSESSMENTS

In the pre-program planning and early design phases, SA provides value by testing estimates and laying out options that clearly delineate which options are best from a cost and schedule perspective.

FUNCTIONAL AVAILABILITY & LOGISTICS / OPERATIONS PLANNING

SA senior management has developed functional Availability models used by major corporations today.  Focusing on logistics and maintenance during the design phase provides the lowest cost options for construction and operations.

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