TFI Supply Chain:
Technology Forecasters Inc. consulting-and-research
specialty 23-years strong and growing.
Our Mission
To increase the effectiveness of supply-chain relationships and systematically remove waste from supply-chain and logistics processes.
Goals and Benefits
- Benchmarking with other companies' best practices, to maximize the "Value Chain" in your supply chain
- Listening to "the voice of the supplier" for the most specific, timely, and frank input on improving supplier relationships
- Deepening inter-functional and inter-company collaboration to reduce risk from uncertainty
- Analyzing logistics for cost savings
- Gaining positive attention for supply-chain strategies amongst the company's chief executives
- Accelerate product launch (decreasing Time to Value), based on streamlined processes between marketing and supply chain
- Finding and coaching executives bringing innovative, operational excellence
- Designing supply chain for environmental and social responsibility, and profiting from it (TFI expertise in sustainable supply chain since 1997)
- Regionalized supply networks: TFI has been helping clients reduce risk and increase customer responsiveness through regional manufacturing strategies since 1987
- Reducing waste and movement of materials, with remarkable cost savings and risk reduction
- Reducing unnecessary materials from hardware products' Bill of Materials (BOMs) -- leveraging software, cloud computing, and existing hardware
- Minimizing costs over time without over-stressing suppliers with stretched payment terms and margin erosion
- Smoothing out the line of response across the supply chain leveraging real-time visibility from raw materials, to components to CM / EMS / ODM (outsource-manufacturing suppliers), to brand owner (OEM), to channel partners / distributors, to retailers, to end customers, to when the end customer has finished using the product, to the next customer, and back to raw materials.
- Helping tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 suppliers optimize their supply-chain contributions to customers
Optimizing Supplier-Customer Relationships
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Finding and Keeping OEM Customers, for the next 10 years of electronics manufacturing and design services
This 3-hour workshop escorts marketing and sales executives at EMS, ODM, component, and software suppliers into the real-world thinking and perspectives of today's OEM customers: when and why do they buy, what regions they prefer, selection criteria, and what deters them from entering into a new supplier relationship. Benefit from TFI's nearly 2.5 decades of expertise in electronics-manufacturing strategy, and get prepared for the next 10 years' of buying behavior by OEM customers, some aspects of which are hardly recognizable from historical practices. With the workshop comes 10 introductions to OEM prospective customers uniquely matched to the client by TFI analysts. -
Logistics and Fulfillment: Leading Practices for Efficiency and Resource Savings
TFI supply-chain, logistics, and fulfillment consultants will convey to your operating executives and teams proven paths to profitable new choices for matching demand with production and moving product. Do you know that even some well-respected electronics companies have recently discovered that some of their products circle the globe as many as 6 times? Have you thought about your processes in this light? Learn how to remove wasted effort, motion, and processes in getting the right product to the right customer in the fastest and least-costly way.
Strategic Marketing Services
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Creating Differentiation in Your Electronics Market
Whether your company is an OEM, and electronics-manufacturing/design company, a component supplier, or software company, you will benefit from TFI's expert industry-and-marketing team's proven ability to quickly find unique angles for promoting your competitive differentiators. By the end of this day-long hands-on workshop, you will have 3 to 5 differentiation messages and a draft marketing roadmap for executing them. Typical follow-on services include writing white papers, leading webinars, securing invitations to speak at conferences, and even objective customer verification of messaging effectiveness.
