Procurement & Device Management
Buying, holding, configuring and shipping devices and licences, run through the portal, with head office approving from wherever it is.
Buying IT is not hard; buying the right thing, at the right price, having it arrive configured, and knowing where it is a year later, is. We do the whole of that, and we run it through the client portal so that the person approving can be in London, or not.
We are an authorised reseller with live pricing from the distributor, which means the portal shows you today’s price and stock rather than a catalogue from last quarter. It also means we have no interest in selling you the wrong thing: the standard build is agreed once and everything after that is a click.
Two ways to hold devices
Your stock, held by us. You buy the devices, we keep them in our stock, configure them to your standard, and ship them the day they are needed. Good for companies that want to own their kit and have starters arrive ready.
A pool, held by us, billed monthly. We keep a small pool of pre-configured devices for you, sized to your rate of starters and failures, and bill for what is in it each month. Good for branches of overseas groups, where head office would rather see a monthly line than a capital purchase.
Both are described in the agreement and visible in the portal, so you always know what is where.
- →Companies that want new-starter kit to arrive configured, not in a box.
- →The UK branch of an overseas group, where head office approves and someone local has to make it happen.
- →Firms tired of catalogue browsing, price chasing and asset spreadsheets.
In plain words
- Live distributor pricing in the portal, so a quote is a click, not a week
- One approval, then we order, track and deliver
- The whole list: laptops, desktops, Macs, iPads, phones, monitors, docks and peripherals, servers, network kit and cabling
- Devices pre-configured before they ship: imaged, enrolled, ready to sign in
- Device holding, in either of two models (below)
- Asset register kept current; warranty claims, repairs, returns and disposals handled
- Phones managed too: company apps protected, work and personal kept apart, a lost phone wiped
- Software licences: Microsoft, Adobe, Exclaimer, Dynamics and the rest, right-sized monthly
- Suppliers managed: contracts negotiated, renewals tracked, performance reported, fewer suppliers to deal with
- Every order visible to the person who approved it, wherever they are
How it shows up day to day
This pillar lives in the portal. You pick from live stock and pricing, approve, and watch the order through to delivery; the device joins your asset register when it lands. Head office overseas sees the same screen.
Chooses the standard build and signs off anything unusual.
Prices it live, raises the quote, tracks the order and updates the asset register when it lands.
Live service numbers, measured weekly and dated, are coming to this strip. We publish nothing we have not measured.
Questions people ask
What are the two device-holding models?
Do we have to buy through you?
How quickly can a new starter be kitted out?
Talk to an engineer about this.
A 20-minute call, no pitch deck.