Shipping End User and Networking Hardware to Global Offices and Teams

IT departments often find it difficult to standardize and streamline their office and employee deployments, especially if their business has thousands of team members spread across dozens of offices and addresses worldwide.

This has become even more difficult since remote work has become more prevalent. As decentralized team structures have emerged, both small and large organizations have employees working from all different parts of the globe. Without a supply-chain that allows you to consolidate, break apart deliveries, and manage SLAs, deploying IT for remote offices and teams becomes not only difficult, but fiscally and operationally costly.

But even if you have a decentralized team structure, the best way to support your internal global IT demand is through a centralized methodology. The larger your company, the more that this is true. By centrally managing the procurement of the hardware, you can reap better discounts and standardize your SKUs globally. By centrally asset tagging and imaging the equipment, you maximize operational efficiency (as opposed to doing all of this in the end destination country). By centrally inventorying your equipment, you gain better transparency into your supply-chain.

Challenges when shipping to global offices and teams

To support a global team, companies usually need a mix of end-user equipment, like laptops, keyboards, monitors, and networking equipment, like switches and routers.

Importing end-user equipment requires that your team obtains regulatory certificates, sometimes brand permission letters, wireless permits, etc., prior to shipping.

Network equipment is often classified under a 5A002 ECCN, meaning that extra steps have to be taken in order to ensure your shipment is exported and imported in compliance. Such as obtaining encryption licenses.

As IT shipping specialists, FGX gets ahead of and resolves all of these problems on your behalf. We also make sure the shipping solution is as seamless as possible. In many scenarios, especially for companies at a global scale, buying and shipping globally is also more cost effective than buying in-market. (The equipment still needs to be shipped to the destination country, just instead of you hiring FGX to do it, a distributor or reseller is doing it and marking up the devices.)

Another important consideration when it comes to shipping to international offices and sites is ensuring that the proper entities are acting as the Importer of Record. As these shipments are almost always for intercompany use, making sure that the shipments are imported in a way that’s aligned with your internal company’s protocols is crucial. FGX gets ahead of this by making sure we understand your business case and providing relevant, optimized shipping options specific to your situation.

Many multinational enterprises trust FGX to deliver a best-in-class, seamless, global IT shipping experience for their IT hardware. Please reach out if you’re interested in learning more.