Minimise risk and cost throughout your Product LifeCycle

Last Updated on Thursday, 07 June 2012 09:57

Typically, Electronics companies use local manufacturers for NPI and prototyping, then a separate company or agent when they move to offshore production.   At this stage five things tend to happen:

• You get charged for (re)tooling
• You have to share your data with an offshore supplier
• You may encounter version control issues
• You have to take a view on when to cutover exclusively to the offshore option
• Up front payment

Each of these issues involves risk and/or cost.  eXception offers an alternative route where your relationship stays onshore (if in UK), and we manage the complete product lifecycle so that:

• You are only charged once for tooling
• We jointly develop a plan with you for the transition to offshore at NPI/prototyping stage
• Your data is kept onshore and secure
• You build in redundancy to your supply chain - if for any reason the offshore production is interrupted, you have a nearshore manufacturing capability on demand

Events such as the March 2011 Japan earthquake highlighted the need for Supply Chain planning to include the need for continuity - eXception provides a unique proposition that reduces Supply Chain risk and product life cycle costs.