Quote pricing and purchase orders are driven by purchasing, programs management, and materials management departments in the contract manufacturer. Read how these functions drive the process and the role of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
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Supply Chain Management
What you should know about quote pricing, purchase orders, and ERP systems
Lean outsourcing: It’s coming
Lean outsourcing. Think about it. Here are two terms that are, on their face, contradictory. Yet the combination of lean manufacturing and outsourcing is on its way. How is this possible? The answer is two words – Cisco Systems.
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How important is lean manufacturing to my company?
While there are a few contract manufacturing companies that have solid lean manufacturing programs either already in place or, underway, developing a true lean culture within large organizations can take years.
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Strategic sourcing and lean manufacturing with value stream roadmapping
How do executives remain true to the tenants of lean while stretching their company value stream across the globe? How do companies build close relationships with suppliers if each party speaks, and acts, differently? How does an organization make value ‘flow’ when its raw materials, or products, might be arriving in batches the size of large, ocean-going ship containers, or perhaps even the size of the container ship?
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Contract electronics direct costs, profits and OEM pricing
While there are some common outsourcing manufacturing contract formats, no two contracts are identical and, there is no viable, common platform that can be applied to every outsourcing contract pricing model with regards to either party’s profits.
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Foxconn Takes ‘Best Internal Processes’ by Outsourcing OEMs in VO Survey
Foxconn rated highest for ‘best internal processes’ by OEM company managers and executives currently outsourcing electronics product design and manufacture.
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Managing contract delivery schedules, changes and liability in the supply chain
Typically, what many OEMs are presented with from their contract manufacturing partners, with regards to supply chain contract scheduling and schedule changes, allows for schedule changes to occur but there is a limit to the degree of change in manufactured product volumes delivered.
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Industry Pulse: Flextronics, Celestica, Nam Tai Electronics, Plexus, Benchmark
Read about Flextronics' deal with Hewlett-Packard involving cell phone imaging and the Company's reduction in work force with a facility in France. Celestica updates guidance believed to be partly related to poor performance of Mexico operations, Nam Tai Electronics announces a new CEO, and more…
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Checklist: Evaluating electronics product design for manufacturing (DfM) services
Product design for manufacturing considerations can culminate into an exhausting list of items. Taking measures to consider as many design requirement aspects as early as possible during development can help companies save time and money when contract manufacturers are involved.
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