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The trigger for an outsourcing process is almost always a need for improved efficiency. The potential for improvement is often very large and diverse and must be examined in detail for each individual case. The starting points are:
- Increased machine use (three-shift operation)
- Increased automation
- Better material prices due to higher purchase volume from the EMS partner
- Improving products, production processes, test concepts etc. via electronics specialists
- Use of foreign production sites of outsourcing partners
It is equally important in a cost comparison (make-or-buy decision) to consider not only the classical production costs, but also all indirect costs such as warranty liability costs, product liability and recall costs. Total cost of ownership approaches have proved particularly suitable.
When making outsourcing decisions, an even higher weight is often given to cost flexibility (fixed costs are replaced by variable costs). Every business is subject to deviations in workload (seasonal deviations, project business, economic cycles, product lifetime cycles). These are associated with other problems such as reduced working hours, operational redundancies, hiring personnel, structural costs, step costs, cost retention, etc.
After completing a successful outsourcing project, these problems transfer fluctuations in order volume to the outsourcing partner – a great plus! Added to this is the advantage of much higher security in cost planning.
When high levels of replacement or new investments in electronics production are required, then capital locking and financing also make outsourcing a reasonable strategy. It quickly becomes clear that outsourcing-related stock reduction often has a significant positive effect on capital locking.
bebro has shown itself to be a proven outsourcing specialist in the electrical & mechanical engineering sector. Besides performance capabilities in production and assembly, other advantageous factors are experience in materials procurement and logistics, in electronics development, in circuit board design and in the development of test concepts.
