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title: Top 5 Tips - Staying Connected with Your Distributed Supply Chain
description: Today’s social distancing rules are impacting the way GovCons interact with their employees, but also with their consultants, contractors, and clients.
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July 13, 2022

# Top 5 Tips - Staying Connected with Your Distributed Supply Chain

Written by: [AtWork](https://www.atworksys.com/blog/author/atwork)

Today’s social distancing rules are impacting the way GovCon businesses interact not only with their employees but also with their consultants, contractors, and clients. For each of these critical business relationships, you need to make sure you support the necessary capabilities to seamlessly and efficiently keep them connected and informed.

- Stay Informed on how your projects are doing
- Communicate project and task status
- Report time and expenses
- Track issues and changes
- Correspond using different modes and channels

To accomplish these objectives, you need the following capabilities to create a highly connected GovCon Virtually Integrated Organization capable of maintaining high performance over a geographically distributed network:

Real-time process and project status

Online access to a project management system that allows role-based access to viewing project status.

Workflow integration of employees, 1099’s, contractors, and clients

Integration of all key participants into the process flow for key activities such as submitting time and expenses, and submitting, reviewing, and approving transactions related to their responsibilities.

Integrated document management

Online, secured, and role-based access to key documents.

Controlled and secured role-based process/project status and approval visibility

Online access to a project management system that allows role-based access to updating and project-related transactions and status.

Efficient collaboration using chat/voice/video and correspondence tracking

Multi-channel options for connecting with partners, ranging from short asynchronous notifications to interactive real-time discussions and shared video communications.

Our [OneLynk](https://www.atworksys.com/onelynk) platform is a comprehensive solution that provides flexible, mobile, and web-based anytime/anywhere access to your back-office systems. It is also DCAA compliant and helps ensure compliance with the SF1408. Contact us to get a complimentary assessment, and to learn more about our special incentives designed to help you affordably begin your business transformation.

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