Telecom Equipment Procurement: Delivered Faster, Costing Less, Lasting Longer
Running a network in 2024 can be stressful – maintaining the standard of your operations, the rising cost of telecom equipment, the mandatory green targets you have to hit.
What you don’t need on top of that is to wait months for equipment that isn’t always reliable.
But what if there was a way to drastically reduce lead times for equipment that lasts longer and costs you less? Sounds pretty good, right?
Step forward MarketPlace, the world’s largest inventory of renewed network equipment and the answer to all your concerns. By engaging with our MarketPlace, you can purchase cheaper alternatives to OEM equipment, that comes quicker and lasts longer.
Want to find out more? Let’s begin…
Reduced lead times
It’s really frustrating having to wait weeks (sometimes months) for new equipment. Long lead times can leave you understocked and halt your operations, costing your network money and causing you unnecessary stress.
That’s where our MarketPlace can help.
Our just-in-time system means you’re not sat around for months, waiting for new equipment to arrive. Instead, our rapid deliveries mean you only order equipment when you need it, allowing it to come in quickly and go straight into production.
This minimises the time equipment spends sat in warehouses, streamlining your inventory and reducing storage costs, leaving your network with more OPEX.
For smaller orders, lead times are as short as 5 days, with the biggest orders still only taking 25 days. Your budget and warehouse space are both freed up by not having to wait months for new kit and then store surplus equipment.
Our MarketPlace is the world’s largest inventory of renewed network equipment (all of which is in secure storage). This means you can always find what you’re looking for. This is especially useful when certain parts experience a shortage and their price rises.
While your competitors are stood still, we have alternative renewed equipment that can do the exact same job but doesn’t rely on those in-demand parts.
Streamlined admin
Another problem many networks face is having to communicate with lots of different OEMs and collect quotes from them all. This is tedious and time-consuming, but there’s no way around it when you buy from OEMs.
With our MarketPlace, everything you need is centralised into one hub. This allows you to get all the quotes you need from one place and enjoy more competitive pricing. Autonomy over your budget is placed back in your hands as it’s easier to compare prices and find the best deals.
With MarketPlace, you’re also able to view your own network’s entire global inventory, solving that understocking-overstocking issue. You can see exactly what stock is where in real time, making it much easier to move items within your own network.
What’s more, our extensive catalogue of renewed telecom equipment means you can get the same kit, from the same manufacturers, all on one platform, for a better price.
This all sounds great, but surely if it’s been used and renewed, the equipment won’t last as long? Well, that’s where we’ve got more good news for you…
Increased reliability – average 10 times better than brand-new from OEMs
The failure rate for teelcom equipment from OEMs is roughly 4%. That might not sound too bad but comparing it with our MarketPlace’s failure rate of just 0.4%, you can see why so many networks come to us when they’re tired of their equipment failing.
When telecom equipment unexpectedly fails, operations are paused and money is lost. It’s also a hassle having to keep replacing equipment, especially when you’ve got 99 other things on your to-do list.
If you’re after fewer outages (and that wonderful peace of mind), MarketPlace really is the tool for you. Our rigorous checks and tests – conducted in our state-of-the-art ESD certified labs – mean our equipment is literally 10 times more reliable than OEMs’.
In addition, we offer 2-year warranties as opposed to the 90-day warranty of some OEMs. So, if a piece of equipment does fail, we’ve got you covered.
We check every single piece of equipment we sell, as opposed to spot checks at OEMs. Everything that leaves our lab has been thoroughly tested to ensure it meets the highest standard of quality, leaving you with no doubt you’re not buying some second-rate product.
When purchasing from our MarketPlace, you’re also given the opportunity to upgrade software in our testing labs before you receive the repurposed equipment. This means no outages, no loss of time or money, and no need to bring in engineers. Doesn’t that sound stress-free?
Operating within budget constraints and hitting green targets
On top of shorter lead times for telecom equipment, our MarketPlace has a number of other benefits for networks as well.
Brand-new equipment from OEMs is becoming more and more expensive, which is particularly problematic for networks operating within tight budgets. Renewed equipment on the other hand is cheaper, saving your network both CAPEX and OPEX and maximising your budget allocations.
Embracing our MarketPlace is great for the environment (and your network’s green targets) as well. By renewing equipment instead of always producing and buying new, we and our customers are drastically reducing CO2e output every year.
As well as buying from our MarketPlace, you can also sell to us. If there’s something within your own network that no longer has a purpose, we’ll help renew and sell it, to gain your network some extra income.
And if a piece of equipment can’t be renewed, we’ll safely and responsibly recycle it to extract its precious metals. The revenue made from selling these metals will be transferred back to your network – this generated nearly 1.8 million euros for networks in 2023, all by embracing circular economy.
So, in summary, the benefits of using our MarketPlace:
- Lead times as short as 5 days (and 25 days at most).
- 10 times more reliable equipment than brand-new OEM equivalents.
- A centralised record to view your entire global inventory at once.
- The world’s biggest inventory of renewed network equipment, meaning you can always find what you’re looking for.
- Enjoy more competitive pricing.
- 2-year warranties rather than 90-day warranties of some OEMs.
- We check and test every piece of equipment that we sell.
- Cheaper than buying brand-new from OEMs.
- Better for the environment by cutting down on CO2e output.
- You can sell to us, to generate extra revenue.
If you like the sound of all this, MarketPlace is the perfect tool for you. Book a MarketPlace demo today.