How live, interactive e-learning lab saves OEM decision makers 5% to 15% annual spend for contract electronics services.
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Contracts & Agreements
Resources vs. strategic doctrine: Career development and manufacturer supply chain workforce education, training when sourcing contract electronic services
How well is your EMS manufacturing partner managing your account?
OEMs can force EMS manufacturing partners to identify the EMS provider’s materials risk exposure by asking EMS firms to report this metric.
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Why monetary expansion increases cost of capital for manufacturers
Allocated budgets are losing purchasing power at rate equal to monetary expansion. Read how manufacturers optimize supply chain spend and get to ROI faster.
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Manufacturing inventory and demand vs labor planning
Manufacturers continue to drive efficiencies and, lower labor and production costs, through outsourcing and automation. Read how consumer stimulus payments throw a wrench into manufacturing scheduling and demand planning.
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EMS Manufacturer value propositions, competitive dynamics and industry trends to know about
How have profit margin trends developed in the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry today vs 10 years ago and who are the more competitive EMS firms when comparing similar EMS providers by size, footprint, end markets served?
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Manufacturing playbook: The standard in EMS manufacturing sourcing costs and price discovery
Electronics OEM companies identify internal EMS manufacturing costs and target cost reductions and savings for their EMS manufacturing programs using our cost modelers. Every cost modeler user has emphasized how thorough and comprehensive our cost modelers are in helping OEM …
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Product cost control and cost reductions in electronic OEM contract EMS manufacturing supply chains
Know what’s important in EMS manufacturing request-for-quote (RFQ) pricing and, how to determine actual, internal EMS factory costs.
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Management by objectives (MBO): Dual-sourcing EMS services vs primary EMS manufacturer with many factory locations
What works for Amazon AWS might be different compared to what works for Dell, HP and others when it comes to trade offs for supply vs pricing of EMS finished goods.
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Manufacturer financial restatement risk in highly networked EMS manufacturing supply chains
Manufacturers have more financial report restatements than other industry. Reasons include inventory quantities and valuations, reserves, revenue recognition…tied to difficulty monitoring global, manufacturing models.
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How product change notices impact profit margin in contract EMS manufacturing programs
Manufacturing analysis and making informed assumptions requires access to rich, market and industry segment information. What you can do and why it matters.
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