Paragon provides the electronics industry with professional supply chain management services that reduce total acquisition costs.

Paragon Total Component Management (TCM^®) services, deliver tangible benefits because they will reduce your total acquisition costs.

We will:

• Undertake your entire procurement process for all materials
• Undertake inspection, storage, picking, preparation, kitting and custom packaging/documentation
• Deliver 'assembly-ready' kits, direct direct to the manufacturing floof, eliminating the need for further inspection
  

Consider what your real cost of acquisition is and the impact that the above services would have on your business.

Real Benefits

The Paragon service is proven to deliver a variety of real benefits right across a business.

Eliminate stock:

• Eliminates stock of your electronic components and part-finished boards

Improved cash flow:

• Your cash-flow would benefit from shipping finished goods before you have paid for any components

Reduced Overheads:

• Free-up warehouse space
• reduce warehouse staff
               -  Inspection
               -  Picking
               -  Kitting
• Reduce purchasing department costs
               -  Sourcing
               -  Order processing
               -  Progressing
               -  Carriage
• Reduce purchase ledger costs
               -  One invoice for an entire kit delivery
               -  Reduce vendor base to a single supplier

Reduce lead times:

• Faster PO processing
• Paragon's wide supplier base eliminates shortages Paragon's stock levels
• Kits available of-the-shelf for immediate delivery

Improved time-to-market:

• Comprehensive support for new product introductions (NPI)

Transfer of tasks:

• Frees up your key personnel to focus on functions that add value instead of correcting supplier errors

how do we do all of this and still be competitive?

Resources

We are totally focussed on the management of the component supply chain and, as a result, have more resources and as a result, are highly likely to be more efficient than our customers at these aspects.

• Purchasing
• Inspection
• Picking/inventory control
• Engineering/technical
• Quality
  
• Systems: bespoke IT ensures tight control and consistency
  
• Quality accreditations - BS EN ISO 9001, 2008
                                  - Investors in People
  

In effect, we give our customers access to all of the above resources but, the cost is shared by all of our customers. Therefore the company wide savings that these services generate for Paragon's customers can vary from 5% - 25% of their material spend.

In order to assess the likely benefits and savings for your business, please call Mark Stuart on +44 (0) 1234 840101 or email: enquiries@paragon-plc.com