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DRM Associates has the capability to
handle of your supplier development needs. Our consultants have extensive experience
performing this type of work for major firms. Our services include:
- Supplier selection - We can
assist your purchasing department with supplier identification and
selection.
- Supplier bidding/negotiation - We can assist your
buyers to secure the lowest purchase price to meet target costing
objectives.
- Supplier evaluations - We can evaluate prospective
suppliers via your criteria
- Supplier quality - We can verify supplier quality
data, develop and provide an analysis for you
- Supplier cost reviews - We
can collect cost data from all suppliers being considered. We would
then verify all cost data provided by the suppler through on-site
visits. A complete cost analysis will be provided so that you can verify
target cost capability.
- Supplier capacity - We can ascertain all
competing suppliers ability to perform engineering development,
prototype capability, testing/validation capacity and tool building
capability.
- Technical reviews - We can coordinate and
facilitate technical reviews. There are two types of tech reviews:
technical and commercial. Items analyzed in technical reviews relate
mostly to engineering issues and the supplier's capability to meet
performance and technical specifications and requirements. These reviews
are necessary when you are looking for design input from its supplier
candidates. (Generally if the design is not to change, technical reviews
are not necessary.) Engineering personnel must be a part of this type of
review. In essence suppliers will come prepared to thoroughly discuss
how they will meet the functional and technical requirements previously
provided by your engineering organization. Specifically items addressed
in technical reviews are:
- Supplier program team; RASIC chart; supplier resources that will be
committed to execute the program; organization chart
- Supplier engineering design concepts that match
your engineering requirements
- Supplier cost reduction ideas that you can utilize
- Project timing
- Product demonstrations (mock-ups) new technology items
- Engineering Test Capabilities
- Engineering Design Tools
Specifically items addressed in commercial reviews are:
- Quality metrics
- Manufacturing floor/plant layout
- Equipment to be utilized
- Manufacturing facility material flow plan
- Purchasing practices currently utilized
to insure quality delivery from Tier 2 and Tier 3 supply
chain.
We would assess all supplier information and
will provide to you with a risk analysis for each
supplier.
- Sequence delivery- We can assess supplier's ability to
deliver product/modules using broadcast code (time from broadcast to
delivery). Using your criteria, an analysis of suppliers capability to
provide this type of delivery will be developed.
- Launch support- We can analyze launch history; compare ramp up schedule vs actual; manning,
training, quality in place; logistics and distribution plan.
- Run at rate- We can perform certification of machine capability to produce quantity and
quality of product. This activity is usually performed approximately 90
days before scheduled start of production.
- On-going cost control - We can assess a supplier's capability to undergo continuous cost improvements
beyond the first year of production including the supplier's internal
Cost Improvement Program; value engineering, cost reduction
expertise, etc.
For further information, please contact:
Kenneth Crow
DRM Associates
2613 Via Olivera
Palos Verdes , CA 90274-2809, USA
Telephone: (310) 377-5569
Fax: (310) 377-1315
Email: kcrow@aol.com
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