What happens inside the EMS factory when you’re not there can be surprising. The bottom line is you want to know your EMS partner is managing your program business the way you would but nobody is going to care about your success as much as you do. Below are some hints things with your current EMS partner may not always be going as planned.
10. Last quarter ended almost three months ago and you still haven’t scheduled a quarterly review meeting.
9. You fly to their facility for management meetings, and notice the cab you hail at the airport is driven by their CFO.
8. You see SMT line workers ESD testing by rubbing inflated balloons on their smocks, then seeing if the hair on their head stands up.
7. In winding down relations with your current EMS provider, his buyers won’t call into the distributor conference call with your buyers to transfer purchase orders.
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6. You find out their RMA and other bad board inventory is mixed with FGI.
5. Their program manager regularly line-items the lunch cost for Tuesday’s weekly forecast meeting, and submits it to your company for reimbursement.
4. Your accounts receivables guy can’t get anyone in their accounts payables group to take his call.
3. Some guy in Asia calls, telling you he owns the building your provider leases, and asks if you can pay last month’s rent.
2. Foxconn called, telling you they bought SMT line equipment left idle in an abandoned Asian factory, and they want you to come pick up your boards and WIP.
1. You remove the contract agreement from the drawer to write notes in the margins, and lawyers from both sides are out celebrating with drinks.
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