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Materials Management Key to EMS Supply Chain Success

June 4th, 2014

ABX Engineering, Inc. is a 28-year-old ISO 9001-2008 and ISO 13485-2003 approved contract electronics manufacturer which targets NPI, medium to large sized projects, providing coast to coast coverage with offices in San Francisco and San Diego. ABX provides full service materials management in the Turn Key manufacturing program.

Materials Management is key to the success of the EMS Supply Chain. Often contract manufactures are viewed more for their production capabilities, equipment and technology. The materials management capabilities are overlooked. For choosing a contract manufacturer, quality, on-time delivery, cost/value are all obviously important. However without a top notch materials program, from planning, purchasing, supply chain quality control and vendor relationships, the CM's ability to ship on-time, a quality product can be compromised.

The founders of ABX are from materials management/procurement backgrounds. The ABX team understands materials and how to get the most from the supply chain. How to best utilize and protect the supply chain that contributes to the final products ABX builds for their clients.

The ABX supply chain includes working with key suppliers to eliminate bottlenecks, sourcing strategically to strike a balance between lowest material cost logistics, implementing JIT (Just In Time) strategies to optimize manufacturing flow and maintaining the right mix and location of vendors to serve our customers production needs. ABX utilizes programs to help insure that counterfeit components do not enter the supply chain. Supply chain integrity is insured by only buying from the manufactures, their authorized distributers, or selected sources specifically chosen for their supply chain integrity, counterfeit prevention strategies. ABX's suppliers are closely monitored for quality, on-time performance and the intangible of their overall ability to support and react to the often challenging supply requirements of new product production as well as aging legacy products.

The ABX materials management team of over 20, planners, buyers, expediters and production control staff have a combined experience of over 200 years. Client BOM's are scrubbed for possible material problems in pending obsolescence, long lead time and other possible problems as part of the materials management, planing, BOM building and production buying processes.

The ABX materials management program provides clients with the best overall quality, on-time delivery, security and value in purchasing a "turn-key" manufactured product. ABX is a leading CM in producing higher technology products, from circuit boards to complete turn key systems, manufacturing for industries including medical, aviation, broadcast, commercial, industrial, research and other customers.