Markit APAC Expansion Brings Transparent IT Procurement to Singapore & Australia
Q4 2018 marked Markit’s first steps into the APAC region with openings first in Singapore (November) and then Australia (December).
"Australia and Singapore are both extremely exciting markets for us. Having a footprint in APAC means we are now able and to begin to serve the demand from our growing base of international clients with a presence in the region."
Kairo Alloja, Head of Expansion
Markit is already working with the leading IT distributors in Australia: Ingram Micro, Dicker Data and Synnex and one day drop shipment is available to Sydney, 2 days to main business areas and up to 10 days to remote parts of The Northern Territory. Most vendors’ products are already available in the initial catalogue of 230 000 SKUs.
In Singapore, integration with Ingram Micro, Innovix, ECS, Tech Data is all on schedule or underway and most vendors are represented in our catalogue. We are already able to offer one day drop shipment on a range of more than 10,000 IT products.
"Markit currently manages over €100M in IT purchasing globally in 31 countries. Now it’s time to start to exert our influence and offer to help companies succeed in reducing the total cost of purchase of IT in the APAC region. Our first steps are the establishment of the Australian and Singapore operations. We will have further Asian openings to announce soon. Watch this space."
Andres Agasild, CEO