Trade Wings provides strategic asset management and procurement solutions that go beyond inventory management. Their solutions provide high-quality, real-time market intelligence to help clients seize buying and selling opportunities more quickly, efficiently, and flexibly than other systems. They integrate trading capabilities into supply chain solutions to identify inventory to fulfill demands and source remaining items from their procurement experts on the global marketplace. Trade Wings also helps efficiently sell excess inventory and circumvent minimum order quantities by finding alternate sources.

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Trade Wings does much more than just smooth out management
the peaks and valleys of inventory management. Our ? Outsource procurement
solutions make available high-quality, real-time, desk
tightly focused market intelligence. This gives your ? Expansion planning
asset managers the power to seize buying and selling ? Open market consolidation
opportunities with a degree of speed, efficiency, and
flexibility far beyond that of any other procurement
management system.
Intelligent trading
Our trading capability is fully integrated into each of our supply chain solutions. When
a manager anywhere in your supply chain enters a bill of material (BOM), our
proprietary systems quickly identify all existing inventory that can supply the demand.
Any unfilled items on the BOM are routed to our procurement experts, who employ
our intelligence capabilities to search the global marketplace for the most cost-
effective, safe sources of supply. Orders from throughout the supply chain are
batched whenever possible to maximize cost savings, and purchases are timed to
avoid driving up market prices.
Our solutions also enable efficient selling of your excess inventory. Oversupply
notices can be transmitted automatically to our sales team, and the surplus can be
strategically placed in the global marketplace, with sales timed to avoid flooding the
market with large overstocks and to maximize selling prices.
Discrete, skilled, highly efficient buying and selling in the open market greatly
extends your supply chain’s ability to minimize excess and avoid shortages. Our
approach can also earn you substantial returns by taking timely advantage of market
price point variations.
Strategic asset management
With facilities and operations around the world, we have visibility and access to
global material and manufacturing flows. When it comes to shortages, spares, last-
time-buy, or reuse stocks, our strategies help you buy, sell, see, and move materials
competitively while you maintain critical customer service levels.
Procurement. When we receive your material requests, we qualify the requirements
(revision, new vs. refurbished, date needed, warranty, etc.), then compare your
material needs with our clients’ excess lists and current stocks. By using excess
material and timed purchases to fill your requests, we’re able to balance supply and
demand—in many cases saving you significant cost.
We can often circumvent suppliers’ minimum order quantities by finding alternate
sources of material and/or timing purchases. We can also help with procurement of
end-of-life (EOL) material by searching the open market and timing purchases to
defray the cost of buying full quantities from the primary supplier.
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Marketing. When it comes to converting assets you no longer need such as
multivendor and third-party equipment, Trade Wings has broad capability to redeploy
them. We use our market intelligence to determine the value of your excess material
and how much time it will take to sell it, based on market demand. We then
strategically place it on the market to get the best return.
Benefits
▪Needs forecasting and management of purchasing peaks and valleys
▪Efficient management of LTB and excess inventory
▪Asset recovery with high-value return
▪Strategic selling of excess inventory
Outsource procurement desk
We serve as a procurement arm for our customers, handling outsourcing in the
secondary market. This works best when a customer’s purchasing is coordinated
through a single person who receives requirements from planners and buyers within
the company.
Through our real-time market intelligence, we take advantage of strategic buying and
selling opportunities to fill shortages and sell excess inventory. Our global client
relationships give us worldwide visibility and access to materials.
Benefits
▪Proactive supply of high-value and hard-to-find equipment at significant cost
savings
▪Strategically timed purchases of material when you need it
Expansion planning
When there is a rise in demand for material to support a network expansion, we can
often provide the material more quickly than usual supply channels because of our
knowledge of multivendor products and visibility into the open market.
Trade Wings’ marketing and procurement solutions use real-time market intelligence
to help you meet your network expansion needs efficiently. Our experts quickly find
the most cost-effective sources of quality material.
Using our analytics and procurement specialists, your planners and buyers can
proactively source high-value and hard-to-find material to avoid shortages and
maintain critical service levels.
Benefits
▪Proactive supply of high-value and hard-to-find equipment at significant cost
savings
▪Strategically timed purchases
▪Needs forecasting and management of purchasing peaks and valleys
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Open market consolidation
We offer a consolidated and expanded view of the open market, replacing multiple
brokers with a single source. We’re different from other parts providers. Our direct
relationships with telecom manufacturers and carriers give us visibility into their
parts stores. In some cases we even assist them in managing their inventories. We
maintain an active database of our customers’ material as well as a database of
open-market material.
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