The core supply chain integration service KMM offers is Materials Management. Materials Management is made up of many services and a complete solutions can include stocking material required for network construction, forecasting material demand, expediting orders, placing orders with the manufacturers and handling the return logistics process.

KMM also can assist with standardization for additional product savings and logistical efficiencies. Cost saving areas include:

KMM has implemented successful projects with regional bell operating companies by utilizing our extensive distribution network, systematic capabilities, vendor relationships, contractual leverage and management ability. With our buying and distribution power, we have been able to deliver overall first-cost savings to our customers, which have resulted in substantial annual cost savings thanks to:

Savings are created through negotiated pricing based on systematic forecast predictions and volume-buying discounts. Our experience and infrastructure will allow customers to realize substantial savings and allow an ease of order management previously unavailable in the telecommunications supply chain industry.

Through our Third-Party Logistics services, our customers can leverage KMM’s physical infrastructure to lower operating costs. Utilizing our nationwide distribution center network will allow Customer Networks to reduce the costs of warehousing and shipping finished goods to its customers. Our 11 facilities across the country will deliver quality logistics services and enhance Customer Networks ability to deliver superior customer service to its customers. Our locations include:

 
Cable & Wire Services

KMM also brings industry leading cable and wire material management and planning services to the table. As the largest independent reseller of cable and wire in the United States, KMM utilizes our extensive experience to add value to the Customer supply chain by aiding you in consolidating/standardizing product codes resulting in leveraged buys, improving stock utilization and therefore reducing scrap and transportation costs, reducing field inventories of overage stock resulting in improvements in carrying costs and material obsolescence, and enhancing emergency stock plans and response processes.

Built on a foundation of quality, customer service, and innovative delivery services, the strengths of the KMM offering includes:

Existing/strong business relationships with the industry’s largest Cable & Wire OEMs including:

 
Electronics Test & Repair

KMM specializes in the test, repair, and logistics of a variety of wireless and wireline network equipment and has earned a reputation across the market for high quality and outstanding customer service. Our offering includes:

 
PICs Management/Spares Handling
 
From a network equipment perspective, by allowing KMM to become the single point of contact to manage and handle your network equipment, improvements can be made across your supply chain. All network equipment/circuit cards would ship to one of our regional logistics depots reducing Customer’s freight charges and shipping times. Using our CO equipment management experience, KMM would locate 100% of the circuit cards required, buy or take on consignment, and handle new buy as well as test and repair. This operation will allow Customer to consolidate its entire PICS management process under one roof, with one point of contact, and one accountable entity. The equipment would then be tested to assess operational capability, with good equipment being sent for repair, and bad equipment scrapped in house. Warranty status would also be cross-referenced on each piece of equipment with in warranty product returned to the OEM. KMM will also manage overall inventory levels, determine seed stock requirements, and make new buy or repair decisions. This total solution will allow Customer to drastically reduce lead times, reduce inventory costs, and provides overall cost reductions and improved operational efficiencies across Customer’s supply chain, allowing you to focus on your core competencies. Highlights are as follows:

By integrating surplus inventory management, test & repair, and logistics services KMM solution will provide Customer with a one-stop reverse logistics enterprise resulting in improved (routine & emergency) delivery performance, operating cost reductions, and support of key corporate initiatives. By offering a single point of contact, KMM offers Customer the opportunity to reduce your overall number of suppliers and in turn reduce administrative expenses, maximize automation capabilities and establish accountabilities for overall service improvements. By offering regional support from one of our 15 depots across the country, KMM can drastically reduce transit times and shipping costs, while in turn offering customized short-interval delivery services.

As we have done with many of our key customers, the process would commence with KMM analyzing the current situation: product types/codes; overall volumes and demand history by geographical area; material prices and operational cost estimates; and obvious/ known areas for improvement.

Engineer, Furnish and Install Services
 
KMM’s engineers bring in-depth experience in telecommunications and manufacturing to a variety of Engineer, Furnish & Install (EF&I) and Assemble, Wire and Test (AWT) applications, including network design, transmission, and detailed engineering. KMM’s engineering disciplines include: Detailed Structure, Wireless, Power, SONET, xDSL, DSLAM, Timing, DAC’s, NGDLC, Fiber/Cable Management, Optical Networking, Alarm Monitoring and all cross-connection devices associated with this equipment. Peak demands can be easily accommodated.

EF&I provides needed equipment quickly with one order, one point of contact and one invoice. KMM engineers the project, furnishes the product and installs equipment to the customer’s quality standards. This multi-supplier solution creates a neat package that includes: