Electronic Cost Engineer Certification for Estimating Total Landed Cost, Product Pricing, Cost Reductions, Fees for Contract Manufacturing Services | Seminar | March 30, 2022

$6,895

Electronic Cost Engineer Certification for Estimating Total Landed Cost, Product Pricing, Cost Reductions, Fees for Contract Manufacturing Services

Wednesday, March 30, 2022
9:00 am PST Duration: 90 minutes

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Mark Zetter
Founder, Venture Outsource LLC

This online Seminar and Virtual Lab is for electronics manufacturing cost engineers, and related professionals, working inside electronic OEM companies. Cost Engineers estimate target costs and participate in contract EMS supplier negotiations and ad hoc pricing analysis to optimize total land cost and support current and future estimating needs for electronics products sourcing with EMS manufacturing partners. Every seminar attendee gets a 'EMS Manufacturing Programs Cost Modeler Compendium'. Cost engineers using our EMS cost modeler help save their company, on average, between 5% and 15%+ of annual EMS manufacturing program spend.

What You Get

  • Seminar Syllabus
  • Seminar, 90 minutes
  • 'EMS Manufacturing Programs Cost Modeler Compendium' *(Excel file)
  • Virtual Lab, 1 Hour private, interactive instruction
  • Certification: EMS Manufacturing Programs Cost Auditor 2022

$6,895 Early Bird Registration
Register before February 11, 2022 and get these EMS Industry Documents at no additional cost.

  • OEM Request-for-Quote (RFQ) Terms & Strategy for EMS Manufacturing ($2199 value, view)
  • EMS Manufacturer Supply Chain Readiness Questionnaire ($1799 value, view)

$8,895 This price becomes effective February 11, 2022

  1. How to compare EMS manufacturing quotes from different EMS manufacturers
  2. How to determine EMS provider 'internal cost' for your EMS program (vs EMS pricing quote to OEM)
  3. How to identify areas in your EMS program, or quote, where EMS provider is charging you excessive fees
  4. How to determine your ideal target EMS program Total Landed Cost based on Model input
  5. How to use 'EMS Manufacturing Programs Cost Modeler Compendium' outputs for setting and achieving your EMS program ROI targets, sooner
  6. Learn ways to use the 'EMS Manufacturing Programs Cost Modeler Compendium' to run 'what if' and ad hoc analysis, fast, when forecasting EMS program costs and during EMS contract service agreement negotiations with EMS manufacturers

What Attendees Are Saying

"We are impressed with the value the manufacturer cost modeler brings. It far exceeds our expectations."

-- Category Manager, European OEM with $2 billion EMS spend

"We have been wanting to 'should cost' for a long time. Your seminar informed us where we need to be. It was a great training program. Many kudos to you."

-- Sourcing Manager, $1 billion industrial electronics OEM

Seminar, 90 minutes (March 30, 2022)

During the 90-minute Seminar the instructor demonstrates the Key Takeaways, above, using real case study data. Seminar attendees reference their Syllabus, along with a working copy of their 'EMS Manufacturing Programs Cost Modeler Compendium' as you listen, watch, and follow the instructor.

Virtual Lab, 1 Hour **(Occurs after Seminar, on a date and time you schedule with us)

For your private, Virtual Lab we deliver to you an updated 'EMS Manufacturing Programs Cost Modeler Compendium', updated with your EMS program inputs. Together, we then train you on the following modules, how to use the Cost Modeler for your specific EMS program:

TRAINING MODULE 1
Capabilities of ‘EMS Manufacturing Programs Cost Modeler Compendium’: Fundamentals behind Compendium Modeler with deep dive into workbook organization.

TRAINING MODULE 2
Determining EMS provider 'internal costs': How EMS providers derive cost baskets for leveraging pricing presented to OEMs.

TRAINING MODULE 3
Tune target your EMS program Total Landed Cost: How Compendium Modeler reveals OEM strategies before RFPs released to EMS providers.

TRAINING MODULE 4
Understanding EMS-OEM program ROI target and strategy: Compendium Modeler utilization forecasting ROI targets and EMS provider negotiation tactics, pre-release of OEM RFPs.

TRAINING MODULE 5
EMS manufacturing quote comparisons: Comparing two program life cycles between two different EMS quotes for true apples-to-apples decision-making.

TRAINING MODULE 6
Solving ad hoc analysis and 'what-if' strategies and scenarios: Common ways and strategies how Compendium Modeler provides critical insights.

Questions

+1 (888) 860-1193
insight@ventureoutsource.com

*Editing formulas and expanding functionality in 'EMS Manufacturing Programs Cost Modeler Compendium' is not permissible. You will, however, be able to fully access and edit your second file version, 'EMS Manufacturing Programs Cost Modeler Lab', we send to you 24 hours before your Lab occurs.

**Virtual Lab must be scheduled by May 15, 2022.

  • Mark Zetter Founder & CEO Venture Outsource LLC VentureOutsource.com

    Moderator - Seminar & Lab

    Mark is a contract electronics manufacturing strategist, mapping electronics OEM and EMS manufacturer risk to improve leverage (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow statement) by analyzing costs and deployment of human capital and materials resources for sourcing and management intelligence. Mark has decades of experience in contract electronics industry as an executive formulating OEM contract manufacturing plans of action, developing and managing contract electronics divisions for global EMS manufacturing providers, assisting private equity and hedge funds and state-owned investment funds and related investors in identifying and acquiring EMS businesses and building out EMS business models, and advising legal counsel and regional governments and nation states with interest in contract electronics industry matters -- all with a pragmatism and view of EMS industry reality shaping better decisioning about sourcing contract electronics solutions through EMS pricing forensics and related transnational finance challenges specific to EMS manufacturing industry. He has helped broker major EMS contracts valued at billions of dollars for Fortune global 100 electronics OEM manufacturers.

  • Mark Swartz Principal VentureOutsource.com

    Seminar Demos & Labs

    Mark Swartz has been working with global technology companies for over three decades, designing and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) systems that automate and adjust business transactions across global supply chains, including client projects that go deep into OEM and EMS supply chains incorporating several hundreds of thousands vendor and supplier trading partners. From analysis and processing 5,000+ OEM RFQs and BOMs for high-mix/high-volume to low-mix, NPI and, mature box build systems integrations program inside EMS and ODM organizations with worldwide footprints, Mark uniquely understands complexities across the vast nature of extended manufacturing supply chains and distribution networks and, ways PPV and MOQ impacts pricing leverage for both OEMs and electronics contract solutions providers and distribution channels. Through Venture Outsource structured Seminars and Virtual Labs, Mark brings order and coordination to the way OEM decision maker attendees perceive and understand their EMS sourcing programs and supply chain management prospects, such as total landed costs and ROI – leading demonstrations and interactive labs - with lively discussion based on the technical infrastructure of the firm's various Cost Modelers.