Value Added Services

PROCUREMENT COST REDUCTION PROGRAM

At the heart of our success is MarketMaker®, a powerful Web-based tool that makes critical information available in an instant. MarketMaker® is the culmination of exhaustive research and development designed to provide our customers with the most robust, customizable electronic materials management system in the world today.

Integrated Inventory & Logistics

By managing inventory and logistics function, IC Trends can provide more efficient procurement planning and execution, which results in lower time and cost to market.

Excess Inventory Management

In today's highly competitive marketplace, it is vital that every resource a company spends is focused on its most current products and core competencies. Every moment spent elsewhere is counter productive to the bottom line. IC Trends Excess Inventory Management Programs, tailored to meet your corporation's unique goals, needs and objectives provide you the opportunity to increase your operational efficiencies and reduce your expenses thru the outsourcing of your excess inventory disposition activities.

Consignment

The consignment program is simple. The seller ships the inventory (including a spreadsheet with all relevant SKU details) to IC Trends where it's inspected, counted, cataloged and stored prior to sale. IC Trends provides an audited accounting of the inventory to you and performs a fair market assessment of the inventory and assumes responsibility to set pricing based on this data. IC Trends promotes the inventory to the global electronic components marketplace, attracts buyers, assumes the credit risk, packs/ships the product and administers warranty claims. You are provided with Purchase Orders for all product sold and paid on N30-day terms. When you participate in this program, your parts are sold through our global marketplace at competitive market prices, and we split the revenue with you.

Purchase

If you need to recover inventory costs immediately, IC Trends will pay cash for your inventory. We can quickly provide a bid to purchase your excess and eliminate future inventory carrying costs. Simply provide a list of available parts and IC Trends will make a cash offer. If you do not have a list, just give us a call and tell us what you have to sell. Once the offer is accepted, ship the inventory to IC Trends and you are paid, with no further liability for the product - condition of parts, warranty, date code, quantities, etc. -- are all handled by IC Trends.

Dry Packing

Because we dry pack our product, we lengthen shelf life by reducing the likelihood of moisture damage to components.

Inventory Valuation

Lenders, company managers and their advisors rely on IC Trends independent analysis of inventories as a foundation for lending decisions, acquisition strategies, and effective corporate governance. On a complementary, pre-engagement basis, we counsel our customers about types of valuations, potential liquidation methodologies, and report expectations of third party users.

Engineering Services

Whether the project involves a new design, a complete re-design, or a migration from obsolete components, our engineering team can provide you a comprehensive solution across a broad range of technologies.

Contract Manufacturing Services

IC Trends is a trusted source for ISO registered, turnkey contract manufacturing services. We are a total resource for complete design, documentation, production, and test requirements.

End-Of-Life Inventory Management

With our extensive network of industry partners, we can discreetly move products to alternate channels- reducing inventories, increasing liquidity, and maximizing the value of obsolete stock.

Device Programming & Testing

IC Trends provides programming and testing capabilities that allow clients to concentrate efforts to core business functions while assuring the highest level of component quality.

Bar Coding

Bar coding allows automated product identification, which reduces cycle time and facilities automated routing. IC Trends supports all industry-standard bar code symbologies and formats.

Part Number Management

Using a powerful database-driven software engine, IC Trends can provide effective management of internal and external part numbering schemes. Cross mapping of standard and internal numbering systems is also available.

Kitting

Our kitting capability ensures our customers receive the components they need in complete, pre-counted packages delivered to the point-of-use. Kitting reduces inventory, minimizes storage space, and reduces ordering complexity.

Lead Forming & Tinning

IC trends can adapt some components to specific customer board configurations through a process known as lead forming. Should the leads need refurbishment, we also provide a new coating process referred to as tinning.

Tape & Reel

IC Trends works with customers to improve their manufacturing efficiency. Our tape and reel capability allows us to provide specific components on a reel for direct introduction to our customers' manufacturing process.