Wall Street has given up on Wistron for 2011 and is looking for better results from the ODM in 2012 which counts Dell; Acer, Lenovo, IBM and Sony as key customers. Meanwhile, Wistron has invested in after-sales centers in China and Brazil.
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Executive Management
Wistron’s hope for a good year gets delayed
Elcoteq as dead man walking
A report out this month on the status of EMS provider Elcoteq’s Q2 financials, and titled ‘Dead man walking’, should give readers an idea the future does not bode well for the struggling Finnish EMS company. (See, also: ‘Elcoteq CEO …
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EMS v ODM: Pegatron after the turnaround
Pegatron is struggling, and straddling, EMS v. ODM business models because R&D resources are limited. Essentially, electronics product notebook design is like an ODM business model, but LED TV and iPhone assembly is more like an EMS business.
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From Starbucks to Foxconn: A competitive supply chain is more than just lowering operations cost and inventories
Gene Tyworth, Ph.D., chairman for the department of supply chain and information systems (SC&IS) at Penn State Smeal College of Business talks with VentureOutsource.com about the skill gaps in today’s supply chain managers and which important knowledge areas tomorrow’s supply chain leaders should focus on. Plus, much more…
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Can your company be as successful as Apple?
Do these five or six things and you win. It starts at the top. If your CEO is incentivized for short-term gains in the stock market and you do not hear from him between quarterly reports you will never be numero uno, dos or tres.
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OEM strategies to reduce EMS provider pricing, sourcing costs
Is investing in supplier development key to OEM success in the market and increasing supply chain performance? (Apple invested billions of dollars in the production of its LCD panel suppliers: LG, Sharp, and Toshiba) Or, can greater OEM reward be achieved through supply chain cost reductions with EMS providers and suppliers?
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CPO strategy with AVL segmentation for better supply chain management
Chief procurement officers (CPO) learn to segment company AVLs to better manage global, regional and local vendors in core, emerging and niche markets.
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Retracing the American manufacturing dream with incentives
With the role globalization has played in the contract electronics manufacturing services (EMS) market where products can be designed, manufactured and assembled all in different countries, it’s important to consider what this means for re-shoring US contract manufacturing.
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Elcoteq CEO is out. Why and, what’s next?
Do you feel any member on the Company’s board is comfortable sticking his neck out to make the tough calls required in the current boardroom environment? It’s my guess board members will want to blend in as much as possible to not risk …
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Foxconn automatons and outsourcing impact more than just jobs
To me, Gou is saying the 1.3 million employees Foxconn currently uses to do the repetitive, mind numbing tasks that produce so many of the gadgets the Company makes cost too much and make too many mistakes to continue to use them.
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