April 14, 2008 - The performance of many large, global EMS companies such as Jabil Circuit, Flextronics, Celestica, to name a few, is surely not ...

September 5, 2007 - India boasts the fastest growing mobile phone market in the world, making it an important place for chip makers to set up shop. The nation added ...

August 31, 2007 - Gartner indicates this will raise EMS providers' share of total mobile phone production in India to nearly ...

June 4, 2007 - The combined company will have a work force of about 200,000, including about 4,000 design engineers, with a combined annual revenue exceeding $30 billion.

March 15, 2007 - Bear Stearns published its updated Inventory Tracker which points to a meaningful decline in inventory days in the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) or, electronics contract manufacturing sector.

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.

With this trend shift, contract manufacturers that are vertically integrated will reap greater benefits than their non-vertically integrated competitors as total outsourced volume increases and the percentage of higher content (i.e., more complex) cell phones decreases.

Startup executives can refer to this plan to help them review internal depth and scope capabilities against anticipated company capability requirements so they may then determine at what point it may make sense to consider evaluating and engaging a contract product design partner or contract manufacturing partner.

Typically, contract manufacturers will purchase specified quantities of long lead time material and OEM customer-unique materials only when the OEM customer authorizes such in advance and in writing.