How Netceed avoids disruptions in a complex global supply chain

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Netceed offers customers supply chain resilience in a complex world. Here’s how they do it, according to their director of telecom sales

Enhancing supply chain resilience has become a key part of Netceed’s operations, which advertises offering a full range of services to support networks from end to end, including supply chain solutions.

Speaking recently at Connected Britian, Steve Doddington, the director of telecom sales for Netceed, says Netceed has made a strategic choice not to have a single reliance on one vendor across the geographies where they operate.

“We have, across those geographies, multiple vendors and multiple warehouse locations,” Doddington said. “Through those multiple vendors that we have, we’re able to source products and derisk the supply chain.”

As a result, Doddington said Netceed can offer their customers supply chain resilience in a complex world.

Doddington also said Netceed can leverage the stock that they have across multiple locations, all while localizing inventory to support their customers, including in the UK.

Managing the supply chain effectively through forecasting and inventory management is also a strong suit of Netceed’s, according to Doddington.

All the while, Doddington said Netceed is also positioning themselves for the future my examining how the company can be more proactive with services offered, via intelligent data.

“We’re working on it,” he said. “We’re looking across all our Netceed entities at our IT capability and we’re trying to come up with a platform of data analytics that will actually allow us to do that proactive work.”

At the end of the day, Doddington said Netceed’s goal is to remove the operational burden from their customers.

“Let them concentrate on what they do best, and what they do best is they install networks, they hook up customers,” he said. “Why would you want to invest in your own logistics infrastructure when a company like ourselves has that infrastructure, that experience, that capability in house.”