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Venture Outsource LLC serves all of the top management consulting firms when they need expertise and insight about contract manufacturing supply chains – and we can help you. Our client projects provide unique value found nowhere else. We know the contract manufacturing industry and can bring to you and your team industry-specific tools and analysis based on reliable intelligence you can act on.
The firm’s chief assets are knowledge and interactions that help discount the flow of cash your business will produce over time. Our business is divided into two divisions: an operating division which includes education and training, and consulting and research. Both divisions are driven by proprietary technology driving opportunity and acquiring updated knowledge that is difficult to obtain and cannot be replicated by any other single resource.
View Venture Outsource management consulting services menu, and learn more about our contract manufacturing costing modelers. Our modelers help companies develop and execute electronics outsourcing strategies with confidence for program profit and product margin growth and protection, finding optimal total landed costs, materials and supply chain risk exposure, and more.
Mark Zetter, founder and management consultant, Venture Outsource LLC
In the early 2000s, Venture Outsource LLC founder and management consultant Mark Zetter began performing value assessment and ranking of contract electronics companies for institutional investors; hedge funds and VC firms, and limited partnerships with interest in contract electronics industry and provider mergers and acquisitions. These projects often included analysis of contract electronics industry and vertical markets; benchmarking and competitive analysis, and memorandums of confidentially documents (formulation and review) for use by investors and buyers and sellers of contract electronics organizations to better assist in assessing provider value. The disclosure vs discovery nature of these projects (comparing capabilities claimed by EMS providers vs actual capabilities) became the cornerstone of services Mark began offering to clients of Venture Outsource LLC.
Prior to this, Mark was hired by a contract manufacturer eventually acquired by private equity and serving non-traditional electronics markets where Mark strengthened organizational and operational stability with top-down and bottom-up planning, implemented monthly and quarterly objectives using metric-based management to measure against aggressive goal setting while developing a new business plan with advisory to support the growth plan.
Mark began his journey in contract electronics industry employed for several years by a tier-4 contract electronics provider (US$400 million in revenue) which grew to US$7 billion during a period of hyper-growth while this provider was fast-acquiring other industry providers and eventually growing to became the largest, tier-1 contract electronics provider in the world during Mark’s tenure as a member of middle management while analyzing, creating, implementing processes and procedures designed to hold functional departments accountable supporting customer manufacturing programs so that customer product production quality and shipping schedules could be met, and exceed, customer expectations.
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Mark also appeared as co-host on the televised program ‘World Business Review’ as an manufacturing industry expert and co-host to show’s host, Alexander M. Haig – United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford – where Mark would lead discussions in the studio on segments dealing with technology manufacturing challenges in the 21st century – such as just-in-time manufacturing.
VentureOutsource.com website
The VentureOutsource.com website is packed with information to help electronics manufacturing supply chain professionals solve problems and further their careers. VentureOutsource.com is an authoritative and well-regarded niche industry resource for electronics OEM brand-owner companies formulating strategies and actively networking with peers tasked with sourcing contract electronics services. A qualified Google news source, VentureOutsource.com is included in the online network of Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), created by the US Congress as part of the Omnibus Foreign Trade and Competitiveness Act. CIBER helps internationalize teaching and research at 15 business graduate schools across the United States.
VentureOutsource.com is also included in globalEDGE, the global business knowledge portal connecting international business professionals to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities. globalEDGE is a gateway to specialized international business research knowledge on countries, cross-border business transactions, and cross-cultural management.
Some articles written by Mark are also indexed by Google Scholar, an openly accessible web search engine indexing scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Mark’s writings have been attributed in academic papers and industry reports.
Supply chain abstracts, manufacturing operations research, legal citations
Click here to read a small sampling of Venture Outsource LLC content and writings cited in academic and scholarly literature, abstracts and research, and court opinions.
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