Electronic Contract Manufacturing Services

Articles & Events \| Contact Us		Creative Strategies for Successful Outsourcing We help leading technology companies create world-class outsourcing strategies and programs for printed circuit board assembly, mechanical sub-assembly and complete end-products. Other major service areas include outsourcing/insourcing feasibility, vendor risk assessment, cost model-based price benchmarking and litigation consulting. Since our founding in 1999, we have served well-known corporations and fast growing start-ups with procurement spend of $10 million to over $5 billion. We combine board expertise in supplier evaluation, quantitative analysis, RFQ process, contract negotiation and in other areas to achieve important, often breakthrough results. As fully independent consultants, we do not maintain alliances with or receive income from vendors. We serve our clients worldwide from our office in Redmond, Washington.
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Highlights of Recent Projects

Supply Chain Cycle Time Reduction

For a HMLV power products company, CMC showed how to revamp forecast and demand loading methods, cut China EMS supplier lead-times in half and fix MRP deficiencies for 2X improvement in finished goods inventory turns.

Make-Or-Buy Analysis

A Fortune 500 company wanted to understand the financial impact of outsourcing their complex electro-mechanical equipment to a tier-1 EMS supplier. CMC’s work included in-depth survey of the client’s production sites in the US, Asia and Europe; then, multi-year cost modeling of best / worst case differences in product costs and cash flows. Final report (~160 pages) included sensitivity analysis and likely transition risks.

Finding the Right Contract Manufacturer

Requirements analysis, RFQ guidance, in-depth factory audits, financial analysis and other supplier risk assessment work to decide between two major Asian EMS providers for a leading storage products company.

Multi-year contract manufacturing agreement negotiated for favorable pricing, upside flexibility, product engineering support, excess inventory and counterfeit components risk mitigation, co-location of support personnel, etc. Analysis of IBM supplier contract requirements and implications (key customer).

Industry Experience

CMC has guided performance audits and contract negotiations for our OEM clients at nearly 200 electronic manufacturing services (EMS) sites and at many “best in class” sub-tier suppliers of precision cables, metals, plastics and other components in the US, Mexico, China, S.E. Asia and other global locations

Benchmark BYD Celestica Fabrinet
Foxconn Flextronics Jabil Plexus Sanmina/SCI
and many more EMS/ODM contractors

Telecom switches, networking and other communications, medical diagnostic and analytical systems, computers and data storage, cellular handsets, optoelectronics, semiconductor capital equipment, financial systems, power conversion, high-end consumer