WEBINAR: Electronic OEM NRE and Capital Costs Strategy in EMS Manufacturing Programs | Webinar | February 21, 2018

Mark Zetter Founder & CEO - VentureOutsource.com

FREE! 20 min talk + 10 min Q&A

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This event materials is for electronics OEM professionals working in OEM companies.

This narrow scope, in-depth webinar focuses on strategy for OEM decision makers for negotiating non-recurring engineering (NRE) and capital costs in your EMS manufacturing program.

OEMs are financially responsible to their EMS manufacturing partners for items, tools, materials... specific to their program. Or are you? Many of these items can be negotiated. Passing product-specific program costs on to OEMs is fair but is it necessary? How OEMs structure terms in their contracts with their outsourcing partners to track and pay for NRE is important, especially for high-cost items.

This live, 30-minute event covers strategy and best practices (v. common industry) approaches to managing risk and costs associated with non-recurring engineering (NRE) and capital costs associated with your OEM program when working with contract electronics solutions providers. Speaker Mark Zetter shares best practices with key figures and percentages form aggregate data and years of experience speaking with electronics OEM materials purchasing management professionals and working with contract electronics solutions providers.

  • OEM NRE opportunities (surprise!)
  • NRE linear optimization
  • EMS NRE leverage
  • NRE role in RFQs and quotes
  • OEM program NRE & development costs
  • Normalizing non-recurring costs strategies
  • NRE amortization and volume production
  • ... 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.

Includes Q&A: You can submit your questions during registration and, you can also submit questions during the event.

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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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