How can you control costs while ensuring that third-party vendors properly manage the recovery, recycling and disposal of your products, fulfill current environmental regulations and maintain your brand reputation? UPS Supply Chain Solutions can provide you with a reliable source of Asset Recovery and Recycling Management for your high-tech products and components.

Our full-service program is designed to help your business meet the challenges of obsolete and excess inventory in order to streamline your post-sales supply chain. Asset Recovery and Recycling Management includes:

• Part and serial number tracking
• De-manufacturing
• Physical destruction of inventory
• Secondary market resale
• Certificates of destruction and resale

Consider the following advantages:

A single source. UPS Supply Chain Solutions gives your company a single source to manage your asset recovery and recycling processes. We conduct thorough screening and periodic audits of our preferred vendors to ensure they are meeting U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards. We also offer value-added processes to help minimize your liability and safeguard privacy and brand reputation.

Gain reliability of a trusted provider. Your company can be confident knowing that a trusted provider is managing all aspects of your asset recovery and recycling program. UPS Supply Chain Solutions can provide part and serial number tracking for your inventory even if its headed for disposal. Your company receives a detailed report to confirm each unit underwent the proper disposal, materials separation and recycling processes.

Increase efficiencies and cost controls. According to the International Association of Electronics Recyclers, logistics can represent more than 90 percent of the costs when it comes to asset recovery, recycling and disposal. We have years of proven experience in controlling logistics costs and managing a vast transportation and distribution infrastructure. Leveraging the expertise of UPS Supply Chain Solutions, your company can add value to the recovery and recycling stages of your post-sales supply chain.

Tap advanced planning systems to manage your inventory. We offer specialized planning tools to set parameters for the projected life cycle of your inventory. Taking a proactive approach to inventory reconciliation helps you further manage costs.