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Technology Forecasters' December Presentation Delineates HP's Supply-Chain Strategy
October 23, 2003 |Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Alameda, Calif. — On December 4 in San Jose, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Program Manager for Supply Chain Social & Environmental Responsibility Bonnie Nixon will present, "HP's Social Responsibility and Environmental Considerations in the Supply Chain," at outsource-consulting firm Technology Forecasters Inc. (TFI)'s Quarterly Forum for Electronics Manufacturing Outsourcing and Supply Chain.
Nixon, who works with HP's Supply Chain Operations Team, will give members of the Quarterly Forum a framework through which HP has imbued both structure and discipline into the design and implementation of its supply-chain social and environmental responsibility program.Nixon will discuss how to embed environmental and social considerations throughout the supply chain and what that means. Nixon also will describe how HP engages stakeholders in meeting environmental and social supply-chain goals, and works especially with those stakeholders concerned with supply-chain activities.
In addition to Nixon's presentation about HP's environmental and social elements of its supply chain, the December 4 Quarterly Forum will include a session by TFI President Pamela Gordon entitled "Efficient Approach to Meeting and Surpassing Customers' and Regulators' Environmental Demands in the Electronics Industry." Leveraging TFI's 16 years of tracking and consulting about critical trends in the electronics manufacturing industry as well as her book Lean and Green: Profit for Your Workplace and the Environmen, Gordon will recommend ways that outsourcing can foster electronic-product companies' ability to meet environmental requirements more quickly and comprehensively.
The December 4 Quarterly Forum will be held at Cisco Systems Inc. in San Jose. Linda Kilwon Park, Cisco vice president of Global Supplier Commodity and Supplier Management will present the keynote, "Supply-Chain Management: Third-Party Feedback from Suppliers for Continuous Improvement."
Also at the Quarterly Forum will be a panel discussion entitled "Outsourcing Contracts, Supplier Preferences, and Establishment of Trust," comprising electronic-product companies' executives responsible for outsourcing decisions. As it does in each fourth quarter, TFI will present findings from its annual "Electronic Manufacturing Outsourcing Report" forecasting EMS and ODM revenues by industry sector and geography. Finally, TFI will summarize its new study for companies that are outsourcing to China as well as the contract manufacturers and suppliers serving them; the report is entitled "Safeguarding Electronics Intellectual Property in China." Related to this topic, on December 3 at Solectron Corp. TFI will hold its Global Pricing Model Workshop, helping Quarterly Forum members to select the best-suited countries for manufacturing their particular products.
The Quarterly Forum assesses issues affecting the electronics manufacturing industry and discusses them in quarterly gatherings and Web-resident strategy reports. The 75 member companies include electronic product companies, contract manufacturers, original design manufacturers and their suppliers. Corporate sponsors are PLM-specialist Agile Software Corp., the world's 6th largest contract manufacturer Elcoteq Networks Corp. specializing in communications technology, and Fabrinet — engineering and manufacturing for optomechanical, precision electromechanical and optoelectronic industries.
TFI is a strategic-consulting firm helping electronic-product executives to improve supply-chain, outsourcing and environmental strategies for cost benefits. For more information, visit www.techforecasters.com.