Combining speed and quality: outfitting a global company’s IT park
Sourcing an IT park for an international company is a significant challenge when using refurbished products. This imposes certain problems such as identifying a sufficient and homogeneous stock, taking into account the different quality grades and building up buffer stock. We provided a high-quality turnkey solution, providing an after-sales service that ensures a new computer is operational within 24 hours (twice as fast as what the competition offers) and always a 3-year product warranty (longer than that offered by manufacturer). Despite all these advantages, our client achieved savings of more than 30%.
8/15/20251 min read
Context:
When an international company launches a new IT park, two things matter most: speed and quality. That is what we delivered for one of our clients facing this challenge.
Our client operates in multiple countries and their new IT park rollout ran into major difficulties such as:
Difficulty finding sufficient and homogeneous stock of refurbished models
Different power plugs and voltages
Country-specific keyboards, requiring adapted layouts (QWERTY, AZERTY, etc.)
Given the use of refurbished laptops, it was necessary to adapt them to local requirements in each country, including keyboards, sockets, and power adapters.
Our Support:
The laptops were provided by a supplier specializing in refurbished equipment. Although the original manufacturer's warranty promises a technician's intervention within 24 to 48 hours, this is limited to remote assistance: ticketing and online management. No technician physically visits the site. We offer superior service, with equipment replacement completed in less than 24 hours in Europe and in less than 48 hours outside of Europe.
We created an internal service, combining inventory and logistics management, to exceed the original manufacturer's standards. For example, we replaced keyboards using laser engraving to perfectly adapt them to local layouts. This technique guarantees optimal quality, indistinguishable from that of new laptops.
While all manufacturers can perform this kind of adaptation, few can guarantee the speed and quality on refurbished products. Additionally, our warranty can be extended due to our ability to find the best offers, whereas the original manufacturer usually only provides a fixed time-limited warranty.
Thanks to our support, the client was able to:
Cut costs by 30%
Save €70,000 on just one IT park
Benefit from improved and adapted services thanks to our personal support
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