Month: May 2022

What Regions Best Fit Your Product?

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Which Region

There is no one size fits all solution for best outsourcing region. Outsourcing strategies that made sense in 2019, may not make sense in 2022 due to rising costs and logistics bottlenecks. While current component constraints make changing electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers immediately a non-starter, many OEM teams are beginning to evaluate their outsourcing strategy as a whole. The dynamics that make a specific region the best fit may have changed. This whitepaper looks at North America and Asia in terms of regional advantages and disadvantages focusing on:

  • Product development considerations
  • Product margin sensitivity
  • Demand variation and scalability
  • End market or customer final assembly location.

Read the full whitepaper here.

Ensuring Supply Chain Integrity

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Material integrity

The imbalance between electronic part supply and market demand will likely continue unabated through 2022. When scarcity drives companies to source from non-franchised brokers or resellers, counterfeit risk increases. This whitepaper looks at what constitutes a counterfeit component and best practices in screening out counterfeit parts. Read it here.