Despite IPC, industry ISO and other quality certifications, no two contract electronic services providers are the same, EMS/ODM sector pricing is not standardized and neither are EMS/ODM service offerings.
How electronics product design, SMT and, PCB assembly manufacturing and test services are administered by EMS/ODM companies for their OEM customer programs is just as important as how these providers are structured internally.
Organizational (org) charts detailing how functional support groups support one another to bring products to market on-time and at cost target, and their reporting structure, can be help better to define EMS/ODM overall accountability in the eyes of OEM customers.
In addition to EMS/ODM company reporting structure, compensation amount and how employees and third party vendors, like manufacturing reps, are compensated, are also important and can impacts both OEM customer program pricing, and success.
Beyond direct v dotted-line reporting structure
One Japanese OEM aimed to spin-off, and consolidate a large division. They wanted help consolidating five manufacturing plants dedicated to printers and other office equipment, into three factories. This followed creating a new EMS/ODM business model out of the remaining two factories.
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