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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Cost Reductions, Finance
How well is your EMS manufacturing partner managing your account?
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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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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Component event risks in electronic manufacturing supply chains
Read how being able to properly route actionable, accurate product BOM and component info for timeliness and decision-making allows supply chain professionals to make more informed decisions.
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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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Five steps to avoid getting fired over product change notifications (PCN)
In EMS manufacturing, OEM customer product change notices can contradict previous PCNs given to EMS partners, adding program costs and impacting supply chain cash conversion. Predictive PCN services can help OEMs avoid this.
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