WEBINAR: Electronics OEM Inventory Liability Strategy in EMS Manufacturing | Webinar | February 14, 2018

Mark Zetter Founder & CEO - VentureOutsource.com

FREE! 20 min talk + 10 min Q&A

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This event is for electronics OEM professionals working in OEM companies. Even if you cannot attend this event sign up anyway and we'll send you the slide deck.

This narrow scope, in-depth webinar focuses on materials inventory liability strategy and best practices for electronics OEM decision makers.

From materials OH costs, warranty exclusions, customer controlled inventory and more... EMS providers are willing to carry some burden but what if component vendors deliver bad components that passed EMS incoming inspection and test yet the OEM experiences field failures ? OEM management of material liability with their EMS partners can make or break the OEM. Service level agreements written with wide interpretation can leave the OEM on the hook for millions in materials costs. (Read how manufacturers can drive costs out from current product portfolios)

This live, 30-minute event covers inventory risks, warranties, epidemic failures and more with strategies for electronics OEM decision makers seeking contract electronics manufacturing services or already engaged in and managing their electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers. Speaker Mark Zetter shares best practices with key figures and percentages (v. common in industry) form aggregate data and years of experience speaking with electronics OEM materials purchasing management professionals and working with contract electronics solutions providers. Agenda for this event includes:

  • Risk: Demand & Purchase Orders
  • OEM-EMS Liability Transfer
  • EMS Responsibility & Execution
  • OEM-Controlled Material Risk
  • On-Time (FGI) Delivery & Penalties
  • Epidemic Failures: Your Warranty. Your Reputation.
  • and more...

OEM target audience: Electronic OEM individuals, managers and executives working in OEM hardware companies responsible for proposals, quotes, costing and cost management, vendor and supplier management, purchasing, planning, strategic sourcing, materials and supply chain management, manufacturing operations, finance, corporate strategy and related.

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  • Mark Zetter Founder & CEO - VentureOutsource.com

    Mark Zetter has helped setup and has run EMS divisions with responsibility for EMS P&L, balance sheets and cash flow statements and he has negotiated and reviewed hundreds of OEM-EMS contracts and deals. Mark works with OEMs and EMS providers and financial and private equity firms on EMS mergers and acquisitions (and OEM factory divestitures) and he helps create and review EMS ‘memorandums of confidentiality’ documents for such transactions. Mark understands the complex nature of EMS manufacturing (and the industry common v. EMS best practices) and is sought after by both OEM and EMS prosecution and defense teams as an EMS expert on EMS manufacturing litigation on issues such as forensics review of inventory generated from purchasing materials, to OEM customer forecasts and excess materials liability due to failure to perform, reductions in OEM forecasts and, purchase order cancellations, to name a few.

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