Logista’s Client Owned Inventory Program

What is Logista’s Client-Owned Inventory Service?

Logista’s ‘Client-Owner’ Inventory Program bridges the product availability gap.  Logista’s Client Owned Inventory Service is a program that allows you to purchase and hold products for future deployment.

Product lead times from manufacturers are seldom predictable and never consistent.  That’s why Logista created a program to allow customers to ‘store’ their technology products to have them available when needed. 

Not all products a customer may choose to store are purchased from Logista.  For instance, a retailer may choose to have a specific receipt printer or cash drawer shipped with a standard store system when opening new locations.  Logista’s Client-Owner Inventory Program allows the customer to consolidate their stock and have a complete system configured, tested, and shipped from one location.

Key Program Features/Benefits

Features of this service include:

• Selection of product to your specifications
• Procurement of products through one source, or multiple sources
• Storage of your product in Logista’s distribution centers to allow for quick delivery

The benefits?  Your products are available when you need them.  Additionally, since you select the type of equipment that will be purchased you can be assured that your IT standards will be protected.

Logista has 18 years of experience and knowledge in the area of IT product acquisition.  You can rely on our expertise to make your procurement process easier to manage.  With our assistance, you can focus your efforts on your core business and optimize your IT ROI.

Partnering with Logista

Logista acts as an advocate for you, ensuring that we will provide you with the solutions that meet your business and IT needs.  Additionally, when you partner with Logista, you have:

• A partner who is an IT industry leader, with National coverage
• The ability to leverage Logista’s relationship with the top IT vendors and manufacturers
• Access to experienced people and top industry technical professionals, utilizing proven methodologies
• A partner who has an extensive portfolio of reliable solutions provided to major corporations nationwide

How Does the Program Work?

Customers usually select to use Logista’s Client-Owned Inventory Service for two reasons:

a)                   When a customer is preparing for a large technology refresh project to be deployed over several months, a customer will elect to use the Logista Client-Owned Inventory Program.  If all the products for a project are pre-purchased and stored before the start of the project, the risk of product shortages during the course of the rollout are eliminated.  Also, the problems created when a product is discontinued during the course of a project are eliminated.  Last, maintenance costs are less and more easily managed when product sets are more ‘homogeneous’ across the enterprise.

b)                   Most corporations work hard to reduce the number of days between when equipment is ordered and when it is installed for the user.  Many have created their own internal SLA’s requiring minimum acceptable time frames for implementation of new product requisitions.  This is precisely where Logista’s Client-Owned Inventory Program can help.  The customer pre-purchases a quantity of product (usually PC’s, Servers, Routers, Switches, etc.) to be warehoused by Logista.  As requests are received from the Customer, they are fulfilled with products from their Client-Owner Inventory.  When stock levels are reduced to a predefined level, a replenishment order is placed. 

This Service works hand-in-hand with Logista’s Configuration Services.  Whether it’s a PC, Server, or Router, Logista can load images, attach Asset Tags, program IP and connectivity information, all prior to shipment.  We have reduced some customer’s order-to-install times to 3-days, including system configuration services!

What Are the Cost?

 When you select our Client Owned Inventory Services, you select hardware based on your technology standards and requirements.  If the product you choose to place in the Client-Owned Warehouse was purchased from Logista, you will be invoiced at the time product is purchased. Then, your product will then move into a Logista secured warehouse to await future delivery.

Each customer that stores client owned products at Logista has their own separate warehouse code established within our accounting system.  At any time a customer can request a warehouse report to see what products and quantities they have available, or any historical shipping/receiving reports.

Essentially, costs are incurred two ways:

1)                   If the product was purchased from Logista, you will only incur a nominal warehouse fee for each item.  This fee is determined based upon the products value and how long you anticipate the products will remain in Logista warehouse.  If it is longer, you simply pay a monthly cost agreed to before the products are purchased initially.

2)                   Products can be stored at Logista that were originally being supplied from another entity or manufacturer.  In a case such as this, you would pay a small administrative fee to have the items received into your Client-Owned Inventory and then a monthly fee for each month the item was in your stock. 

Ready to Dig a Little Deeper?

For more information, contact your Logista Enterprise Team or Call 1-800-844-2035.