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Technology Supply Chain Management: World-Class Processes

Technology SolutionsWith its corporate offices in Silicon Valley, Extron fully understands the unique set of challenges and opportunities that Technology companies face on a daily basis. Better, faster, cheaper continues to be the mantra of a demanding marketplace and even the shortest product lifecycles continue to shrink. Couple these challenges with dramatic seasonal cycles of expansion and contraction (hockey stick) and you have just a few realities of the Technology sector. What is new on the horizon only appears to add risk to an already complex supply chain challenge. Things like protecting your IP (intellectual property) from being compromised in global regions that take a lax view of patent protection and dealing with the new reality that the spiraling cost of oil means that freight costs can no longer be buried into a purchase price. And do not forget all the new compliancy laws for manufacturing and legal disposition of electronic equipment (i.e. RoHS and WEEE.)

Unique challenges:
  • Short product lifecycles
  • Dramatic forecast fluctuations
  • Variable demand (expansion and contraction)
  • Seasonality/hockey stick
  • Compliance laws

All of this increased risk requires flexibility from technology companies to remain competitive. To help their customers do just that, Extron has standardized and documented world-class supply chain processes, technology and functional methodologies over the past 25 years of providing cutting-edge supply chain services. They provide these services and their extensive experience as part of a comprehensive Technology Solution Suite.

The optimized Solution Packages that make up this suite help our customers efficiently manage their specific supply chain requirement and remain competitive in an increasingly competitive marketplace. This simple, easy to deploy, packaged solution reduces the complexity of Global supply chain management and increases our customers’ flexibility while reducing risk.

Technology Solutions:
  • Supply Chain Consultation, Analysis and Design Services
  • Supply Base Qualification and Procurement
    • Off –the-shelf components (MB, memory, HDD, power supplies, etc.)
    • Build to print (PCBAs, sheet metal, cables, packaging, media, etc)
  • Supply Chain & Fulfillment Solutions
    • Postponement
    • Freight cost optimization
  • Systems Integration, Configuration and Test
    • Assembly
    • Software configuration
    • Functional test and burn in
  • Forward Logistics and Distribution
  • Reverse Logistics and Returns
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