In your standing meeting every morning, someone asks the only question that matters: “What’s the total landed cost for this HTS code from China, including Section 301, reciprocal tariffs, and AD/CVD?” They want a hard number before the call …
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Supply Chain Management
Stop guessing your landed cost: Answer the question that rules every import meeting
Tariffs: How OEMs restructure EMS partnerships to minimize cost escalation and supply disruptions
As senior supply chain leaders gather for budget reviews as 2025 ends, one line item is burning a hole in every forecast – tariffs. Average duties on Chinese electronics now sit at 51.1 percent, with semiconductors facing 25 percent …
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EMS Manufacturing industry faces eroding differentiation and rising customer acquisition costs
As EMS manufacturing industry restructures and AI-driven capital sheepishly moves into factories with AI agents and AI systems, the contract electronics industry – long a backbone of global hardware supply chains – is undergoing a profound shift. Once differentiated …
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Risk assessment frameworks for OEM decision-making in EMS manufacturing supply chains
For electronics OEM manufacturers, selecting the right electronics contract EMS manufacturer is pivotal to ensuring product quality, supply chain efficiency, and market competitiveness. Procurement and engineering executives at large, mid-sized, and specialty OEMs – ranging from global leaders like Panasonic …
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How quantum computing can transform procurement: Must-know insights for CPOs and boardrooms
Questions to ask supply chain procurement quantum computing vendors: hardware, algorithms, scalability, integration, training…
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Year-to-quantum (Y2Q) practical quantum computing applications for manufacturing supply chains
Year to quantum (Y2Q) has potential to impact numerous industries, including manufacturing, by solving complex problems faster than classical computers and enhancing supply chain robustness in several ways. AI algorithms can already assess many different supply chain weaknesses and identify …
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From chaos to control: How to turn underperforming EMS manufacturers into assets
Below are key title for electronics industry OEM hardware and equipment companies and how these roles each contribute to strategic planning and execution to better manage underperforming contract EMS manufacturing partners. Purchasing managers Purchasing managers leverage procurement expertise focused …
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What is fair pricing for EMS manufacturing fees and services?
Some electronics OEM companies only want to source the electronics portion of their manufacturing programs. Others see value in sourcing full manufacturing assembly with their EMS partners. When determining fair pricing of EMS services for make vs buy decisions, …
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Top-line growth and deeper customer satisfaction with process strategy leadership
Customer-facing teams confront unique challenges, often unbeknownst amongst our internal supported teams. Successfully addressing customer needs requires a tenacity for closing tasks in a fluid environment often operating with loosely defined processes. Understanding the backbone of our process and …
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Rethinking EDA tools, search engines, distributors to unlock value in electronic product BoMs
Some contract EMS manufacturing companies with deeper engineering and technology expertise are going direct to semiconductor chip manufacturers for their OEM customer programs, and bypassing electronics components distributors altogether. These side deals disrupt industrial search engines and OEM customers …
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