Industries: OEM

Original Equipment Manufactures (OEMs) who design and market computer products, networking equipment, mobile devices, consumer electronics and industrial products must manage a large amount of complexity in strategic sourcing components and contract manufacturing services. PolyDyne’s DesignWin sales quoting software application helps OEMs reduce the complexity of their sourcing processes while improving their bottom line by driving down material and labor costs. Learn more about DesignWin

In the presence of today’s complex supply chain models, it has become crucial for the OEMs to collaborate closely with a limited number of strategic partners regardless of their level of outsourcing. In addition, OEMs must optimize their supply chains while keeping them flexible enough to respond to varied customer demand. Otherwise, OEMs are more likely to experience unreasonable delays when attempting to manage dispersed resources and track market signals in real time, which can cause business risk to escalate. Eventually, corporate performance would suffer due to the loss of control over data integrity, quality, total cost of ownership (TCO), and time-to-market.

However, this is only part of the challenge confronting multisite and global OEMs today. Even more fundamental are the internal challenges they now face in the aftermath of having weathered one of the longest and harshest, high-technology recessions. Massive sector-wide consolidation and prolonged cost-cutting have taken their toll on the state of the OEMs’ back-end systems, business processes, and people resources. OEMs not equipped with the right strategic sourcing infrastructure and expertise to help them take appropriate action on the variety of sourcing data stored across their companies will not be able to fully leverage their enterprise-wide purchasing power and influence over partners. Consequently, best-in-class OEMs are realizing that, in order to remain competitive, they must now move to a new supply chain methodology, one that facilitates the creation of global supply chain strategies and translates them into a number of efficient, local supply chains. Before they can begin to execute on strategies that deal with supply chain complexity outside their companies, OEMs are discovering they must first focus on adopting the right tools and processes to achieve operational excellence from within their own companies.

Lastly, in order to make a lasting commitment to continuous improvement, OEMs are finding they need to apply the actions associated with the successful management of their supply chains toward fulfilling corporate business objectives.