Inadequate provisioning can lead to high inventory costs and put service revenues at risk. Today, many forecasts look backward for planning decisions, relying on factors such as mean time between failures (MTBF). Without strong historical data, such as spares consumption, it’s difficult to get a solid view of equipment replacement needs.
Supplementing the capabilities of existing ERP and Operational Support Systems (OSS) for asset reporting, Trade Wings brings together internal supply and demand data into a single view to provide operations and procurement with more accurate and reliable forecasts.
Trade Wings delivers unprecedented insight into spares and other unused, multi-vendor network assets. This lets carriers manage the movement and disposition of excess or decommissioned material more intelligently, including the return of unused or stranded assets to spares pools. By ensuring that assets are put to highest and best use and providing access to material on the secondary market, Trade Wings facilitates just-in-time inventories that reduce network capital-to-revenue ratios and the requirement for expedited replacements.
Access to a wider pool of spares also reduces carriers’ dependency on costly repair vendors and OEM maintenance agreements. Offering a consolidated view of disparate inventories and rapid access to validated, multi-vendor equipment from the secondary market, Trade Wings helps carriers achieve high service response times with less reliance on third-party vendors.
