Good assembly agreements for manufacturing suppliers and customers find balance with price, terms, and service. View different SLA contract types here.
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Executive Management
Fee structures for negotiating manufacturing assembly contracts
Contract manufacturing consultants de-risk OEM outsource design and assembly
Independent EMS sourcing consultants with extensive electronics contract manufacturing best practices knowledge. View examples.
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Contract electronics manufacturing (EMS) finance risk
Contract electronics manufacturing services (EMS) is capital intensive with most electronics contract manufacturers using revolving lines of credit to fund manufacturing operations. Many large and small contract electronics providers in industry are now facing challenges related to replacing maturing high …
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Avnet adds no value confirms Texas Instruments: How OEMs save and why more component vendors will follow TI strategy
I’ve managed contract electronics divisions for years and noticed long ago the cozy relationship electronics components distributors like Avnet, Arrow, Future, TTI, Mouser and others have with EMS manufacturers. Beyond moving boxes around, distributors add no real value to OEM …
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Mexico hourly manufacturing wages, labor productivity, electronic industry infrastructure v Asian nations
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Commodity buyers for data center cloud hardware rack solutions transformed by supply chain outsourcing
Growing data center demand and bill of materials (BOM) line items impact how commodity buyers use contract electronics partners as global data center IP traffic is expected to grow 25 percent CAGR, five years through 2021, from 6.8 zettabytes per …
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Higher contract manufacturing audit costs are a price worth paying
Shareholders place trust in executive management teams to make timely and informed decisions. When choosing contract electronics product design and manufacturing partners, OEM decision makers are dependent on P&L of your OEM company, and your cost of doing business with …
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China increases Vietnam investment to ride manufacturing wave
Electronics OEM and contract electronics manufacturers are shifting manufacturing supply chains to avoid the effects of US-China trade tensions. This is being reflected in increased foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Vietnam from late 2018 into 2019. (Related: Vietnam and …
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Vietnam contract manufacturing: Dong exchange rates v EMS/ODM provider earnings growth
The Vietnamese Dong is the only ASEAN bloc currency that depreciated against the US$ in the first-half 2019. For electronics OEM decision makers considering EMS/ODM providers with operations in foreign countries and wanting to know contract electronics EMS and ODM …
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These 14 CEOs failed to navigate disruption
Technological innovations have swept in and upended legacy businesses in industry after industry. The past few decades are filled with stories of CEOs who stepped up to the plate, only to realize that their competitors were playing a different game …
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