Trade Board Monitoring
OpSec Security provides services to monitor hundreds of trade boards in which finished goods and product components are bought and sold at wholesale quantities. Trade boards offer a platform for buyers & sellers to exchange goods. Unfortunately, trade boards also offer a channel in which counterfeit, stolen, diverted, expired, and substandard products can enter the legitimate supply chain.
The tracking of movement of goods across trade boards provides useful information on where a product originates and which markets sellers are targeting. By understanding their exposure on trade boards, brand owners can pursue action to stop illegitimate products and components from infiltrating the supply chain and reaching the consumer market. OpSec offers trade board monitoring services to:
- Anonymously monitor hundreds of trade boards to identify postings offering
- Finished, branded product
- Product components to manufacture the finished product
- Equipment, materials, and packaging employed to produce the finished product
- Track postings offering “product for sale” and “want to buy” ads to cut-off the supply from buyers and sellers of unauthorized product distribution
- Identify the most harmful sellers to better focus investigative and legal resources, e.g. trend seller volume across numerous trade boards
- Report infringing postings to select trade boards for removal (some will comply with brand owner requests to remove egregious postings)
- Manage channel compliance of authorized distribution network
- Record and store posting details, including quantities, prices, seller contact information, geographic location
