-
- News
- Books
Featured Books
- smt007 Magazine
Latest Issues
Current IssueIPC APEX EXPO 2024 Pre-show
This month’s issue devotes its pages to a comprehensive preview of the IPC APEX EXPO 2024 event. Whether your role is technical or business, if you're new-to-the-industry or seasoned veteran, you'll find value throughout this program.
Boost Your Sales
Every part of your business can be evaluated as a process, including your sales funnel. Optimizing your selling process requires a coordinated effort between marketing and sales. In this issue, industry experts in marketing and sales offer their best advice on how to boost your sales efforts.
The Cost of Rework
In this issue, we investigate rework's current state of the art. What are the root causes and how are they resolved? What is the financial impact of rework, and is it possible to eliminate it entirely without sacrificing your yields?
- Articles
- Columns
Search Console
- Links
- Events
||| MENU - smt007 Magazine
Solectron CEO to Emphasize Benefits of Outsourcing at Forum
January 25, 2005 |Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
MILPITAS, Calif. — Solectron Corp. president and CEO, Mike Cannon, will address manufacturing industry business leaders gathering at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about the positives of outsourcing, focusing on the point that achieving the maximum benefits requires a long-term view and real collaboration by both partners.
On a panel called, "Beyond Politics: How to Make Global Outsourcing Work," Cannon will urge his peers to consider the economic, environmental and social responsibility implications required for a successful outsourcing relationship. "While the outsourcing trend is a positive for the electronics industry, traditional outsourcing is no longer simply a contract between companies," he says. "Today's global market requires a partnership across the supply chain to get the right economic, social and environmental benefits."
Cannon will emphasize that based on Solectron's long experience of collaborating with many of the world's leading technology companies, the economic success of outsourcing will only be achieved if each partner realizes that they can trust and depend on the capabilities and expertise of the other. He will propose that companies align their business models with their partners as if it were a peer-to-peer relationship, rather than a command chain. An example of these efforts is Solectron's position on Lean manufacturing, which combines the quality-oriented statistical analysis of Six Sigma with a relentless focus on Lean operating principles that eliminate activities that do not add value to its customers' businesses. The result is increased flexibility, product yield and quality for the customers.
Cannon will also highlight that the increasingly complex regulatory framework surrounding environmental legislation makes it necessary for manufacturers to work collaboratively with their partners to ensure total compliance of their products. For example, Solectron is already designing lead-free manufacturing techniques, which is helping its customers comply with the European Union's Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation that bans lead and five other hazardous substances in most electronics products, starting July 1, 2006.
Finally, Cannon will discuss the need for outsourcing partners to continue to take a more holistic view of their activities by maintaining to be more socially responsible. Recently, Solectron and some of the other electronics manufacturers, as well as major OEMs, signed the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct, which demonstrates their commitment to work together to promote socially responsible practices across the global supply chain. "As good corporate citizens, it's not only our duty to promote ethical practices, but also involve ourselves with the wider community," says Cannon. "Collaboration doesn't just stop at the supply chain, it impacts every aspect of our business."