http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/archives/economic-downturn-has-been-a-catalyst-to-manufacturing-strategy/ Read what our thought leaders are thinking, in our every-other-Friday TFI blog entries. Sign up with your favorite RSS Feed service and get an automated alert whenever there's a new posting to the TFI Weblog. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:20:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/archives/economic-downturn-has-been-a-catalyst-to-manufacturing-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-22431 Douglas Kent Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:25:00 +0000 http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/?p=479#comment-22431 It is clear that manufacturing strategy flexibilities are key to success and leaders such as Nokia (the example mentioned above) are demonstrating clearly that they apply as much innovation to their supply chain as they do to their products. Within the annual InForum supply chain predictions we stated that the need for supply chain design and optimization flexibility and more informed outsourcing decision making were clear competitive differentiators and also that "profitable proximity would be the new norm". It seems we were right! Undoubtedly these trends will continue to put some pressure on the relationship between OEM's and EMS companies where some of the contract manufacturing players will have to now 'prove' supply chain expertise beyond just leveraging procurement spend - instead of just paying it word service! Exciting times ahead. Why not attend the forthcoming InForum meeting in San Jose and see what the 5 year forecast for the industry predicts for the years ahead. At 95% accuracy levels for the forecast - its surely a meeting that deserves attendance. http://www.inforuminc.com/show_page.php?id=64 It is clear that manufacturing strategy flexibilities are key to success and leaders such as Nokia (the example mentioned above) are demonstrating clearly that they apply as much innovation to their supply chain as they do to their products. Within the annual InForum supply chain predictions we stated that the need for supply chain design and optimization flexibility and more informed outsourcing decision making were clear competitive differentiators and also that “profitable proximity would be the new norm”. It seems we were right! Undoubtedly these trends will continue to put some pressure on the relationship between OEM’s and EMS companies where some of the contract manufacturing players will have to now ‘prove’ supply chain expertise beyond just leveraging procurement spend – instead of just paying it word service! Exciting times ahead. Why not attend the forthcoming InForum meeting in San Jose and see what the 5 year forecast for the industry predicts for the years ahead. At 95% accuracy levels for the forecast – its surely a meeting that deserves attendance.
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