Raw Materials Management

Enhanced supply management with a focus on ethics and material accuracy.

OIA helps global brands adapt to consumer behavior quickly. We leverage scalable order management technology to help retail and lifestyle companies reduce their material lead times and remain responsive to evolving consumer demand. 

OIA Global offers the accessibility, responsiveness, and agility of a smaller company, yet the professionalism and network capabilities of a larger one. Our goal is to manage unique challenges within each distinct market and to optimize your materials for each product, all with a personal touch. For example, if one of your vendors loses an established pipeline for a specific material, OIA could mitigate that issue by reallocating that order to another vendor or by finding an alternate supply source.  

With stronger upstream raw materials sourcing and allocation planning, your business has enhanced flexibility when entering or exiting different markets. We go above and beyond to find every customer’s path to success, providing exceptional service and proven solutions. 

Specialized Services for Retail Companies

Our team has extensive experience sourcing and managing raw materials for athletic and footwear brands, including:

• Canvas
• Leathers
• Yarns
• Laces
• Polymers

OIA ensures that production issues don’t make it to retail while also providing customers with enhanced visibility of order allocations. We have the resources, network, and most critically, the technology to increase your speed to market.  

Building an efficient yet ethical supply chain on your own is incredibly challenging.

OIA provides enhanced supply management with an emphasis on material accuracy. We can help in many ways:

• Always operate in compliance with your materials sourcing standards
• Never run low on high-demand production materials
• Enhanced flexibility when entering or exiting different markets
• Automated and responsive materials order management 
• Pricing management
• Leveraged buys
• Order consolidations
• Data-driven solutions that adapt to consumer behavior quickly
• Sustainability reporting