As distributors work to diversify, some senior executives are being reshuffled, and others are being released or, some executives without vested interests are jumping ship to EMS providers.
Read more
Materials Management
Electronics distribution ripe for disruption
How to compare Flex, Jabil, Sanmina, Celestica manufacturing supply chain capabilities
“My electronics manufacturing solutions provider just sold me a bill of goods, conveying their manufacturing supply chain capabilities and framing the narrative with “superior supply chain predictability, agility, and visibility”. This is how EMS provider Sanmina positions their manufacturing execution …
Read more
EMS Manufacturer Supply Chain Competitive Readiness Questionnaire – Document
Some areas this questionnaire can help manufacturers reduce costly IDL errors and better manage IDL productivity and supply chain execution include BOM management, purchasing and planning, materials and inventory management, scheduling and work orders, sales and operations planning (S&OP), manufacturing execution systems (MES), risks in third-party IP ownership against supply chain technology stacks, and manufacturing artificial intelligence, to name a few.
Read more
OEM cash-in-advance EMS manufacturing
One way OEMs can help get potential EMS partners to commit includes being open to cutting change orders and adding to your AVL to make things easier for EMS providers to get through their materials acquisition cycle.
Read more
Electronic OEM commodity management, and contradictions
“What I find misleading is the word ‘commodity’ it means common materials which are low-cost and highly available.”
Read more
5 Ways electronics OEMs and EMS providers purchase from semiconductor component vendors
The following 5 scenarios detail how electronics OEM companies and contract EMS providers award purchase orders to semiconductor vendors.
Read more
6 Steps how semi components get on OEM approved vendor list (AVL)
Six critical steps how a semiconductor vendor gets their chipset onto an electronics OEM hardware product approved vendor list (AVL).
Read more
EMS Manufacturing Industry Documents
Contract electronic outsourcing industry design / manufacturing agreements, templates, term sheets, audit checklist evaluations, and more for purchase.
Read more
Pilot build checklist for electronics system integration box build programs
Pilot build checklist covers materials, business interests, production, test, training, capacity planning and more. OEMs can help make sure EMS providers have everything in order using this checklist.
Read more
Electronics return materials authorization (RMA) and product repair strategy
Ways EMS providers manage customer product repairs and failures and recurring problems under warranty and includes root cause steps and corrections actions.
Read more