Available immediately through Ingram Micro Outlet, these new product SKUs and programs are designed to help IT manufacturers maximize recovery value on discontinued and refurbished products. In addition, Ingram Micro solution providers gain access to a wider assortment of value-priced IT and CE products from a single source, value and volume distribution partner.
"Our manufacturer and solution-provider partners needed a way to realize revenue on a variety of maturing products," says Tim Billing, vice president, North America retail and internet sales, and the executive sponsor for Ingram Micro Outlet Canada and U.S. "The Ingram Micro Outlet is simply the most effective means to liquidate out-of-date inventory and maximize the return and use of end-of-line, discontinued and refurbished technologies, without compromising your channels or partnerships."
Unlike competitive programs, Ingram Micro Outlet supports both mainstream technologies, including recently discontinued notebooks, and harder-to-sell items, such as accessories and peripherals for end-of-line computers. Ingram Micro Outlet also works closely with participating IT manufacturers and solution providers to set a sales strategy that minimizes channel conflict and reduces the potential impact of liquidation sales on current product models.
New U.S. Ingram Micro Outlet is Reliable, Easy-to-Use and Effective
Leveraging the best practices established by Ingram Micro Canada's operation, the new U.S.-based Ingram Micro Outlet program promises the same reliability, ease of use, and effective sales and engagement strategies for IT manufacturer and solution provider partners. IT manufacturers can use Ingram Micro Outlet to remarket products to the distributor's growing solution- provider base in three ways:
- Outright purchase
- Liquidation bids
- Consignment programs
Solution providers can use Ingram Micro Outlet to source discontinued models for customers who have deployed standardized fleets of technologies, allowing the organization to complete project roll-outs without mixing models. This option also provides solution providers with a little more time to complete product migration schedules onto the newest technologies.
Pricing and Availability
Ingram Micro Outlet is available to Ingram Micro partners in the United States and Canada. Solution providers interested in more information or wish to provide their email address for email broadcasts of product specials, please send your contact information to outlet@ingrammicro.com. IT manufacturers interested in more information may e-mail outlet@ingrammicro.com or call (714) 721-8639.
About Ingram Micro Outlet
Ingram Micro Outlet was launched in Canada in January 2004 in response to requests from IT manufacturers and solution providers' customers to extend the distributor's product line-card to discontinued and refurbished products. The new U.S.-based product trading and liquidation Outlet program follows suit and is readily available to all Ingram Micro hardware manufacturers and solution provider partners.
About Ingram Micro
As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company serves more than 150 countries and is the only global broadline IT distributor with operations in Asia. Visit http://www.ingrammicro.com.
SOURCE Ingram Micro Inc.
Marie Meoli of WhiteFox Marketing & Communications, +1-714-680-0335,
marie.meoli@whitefoxpr.com, for Ingram Micro Inc.; or Dina Vieira of Ingram Micro
Canada, +1-905-755-5000, ext. 55261, dina.vieira@ingrammicro.ca
http://www.ingrammicro.com