If you’re facing broad network operations responsibilities and budgetary cuts while simultaneously managing an increasingly difficult network of maintenance suppliers and cost perspectives, you are not alone. Assistance exists that is simple and often overlooked by operators:

Spare parts management is a powerful new strategy to provide the best service to customers while reducing costs. By utilizing secondary equipment market suppliers for spare parts and spare parts management, the operator reduces overall operating expenditures on maintenance and the related logistics costs and challenges. How? In two ways:

First, the operator’s budget can be spared by using refurbished spare parts for a fraction of the cost incurred when purchasing new.

Second, with the spare parts management supplier taking full responsibility for managing spare parts stock and locating spare parts as needed, the operator’s staff time is freed up and the logistics of procurement and delivery of equipment is passed on to the supplier.

Tips for Choosing a Spare Parts Maintenance Supplier

To ensure you choose the best possible vendor for your spare parts maintenance, your supplier should offer:

Outsourcing spare parts management to a secondary equipment supplier offers exciting new possibilities for telecom operators. Operators increasingly see outsourcing as an effective way of managing their networks while realizing significant cost-savings. With outsourcing, the nature of the relationship between operator and supplier changes to one of synergistic partnership leading to a mutually beneficial solution for all concerned.

American Communications currently offers spare parts management for Tier 1 nationwide carriers, Fortune 500 companies, and government entities. For more information on American Communications’ program offerings, please contact a sales representative at 1.866.593.5931.



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