"…carrying excess parts inventory on the balance sheet ties up a company's capital. So today you will find companies more disciplined in supply-chain practices. Implementing systems like vendor managed inventory (VMI) through a broad …"
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2005
Interview with Avnet’s Roy Vallee
Celestica’s Steve Delaney talks EMS, restructuring and more
"Celestica's lean efforts have provided benefits to OEMs, Celestica, and even the supply base – reducing costs and inventory and improving our customers' responsiveness. Other cost-reduction initiatives include low-cost manufacturing…"
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IBM’s Tim Carroll talks integrated supply chains, inventory, cost reductions
"We have brilliant IBM researchers working on algorithms for supply chain optimization, we have access to the leading open standards-based software in WebSphere and DB2 and our experience with thousands of clients as a …"
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Michael Marks talks EMS, Foxconn, Flextronics with VentureOutsource.com
"A culture is built up over a very long time. I think we do have the culture you have described. Our operating executives all have the same view, presumably everyone hires in their own image and as long as the company works…"
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Marc Onetto talks metrics, Solectron, EMS operations, quality and Jack Welch
"Metrics are being driven based on the three major requirements from our customers. (1) Response to customer demands – measured as delivery to customer requests and delivery to commit. (2) Quality – factory yields and field…"
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India SMTA’s Rajinder Kumar on EMS, India, China and more
"There has not been a level playing field when comparing our industry to China's electronics contract manufacturing industry. In the past, conducting electronics manufacturing services has been more lucrative in China compared to India."
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Jabil COO Mark Mondello with VentureOutsource.com
Globally, we've expanded dramatically and as a result of this growth, we have learned a lot about our varying workplace …
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