Paragon’s supply chain management services have long been recognised as the UK’s market leader. With over 18 years experience providing strategic electronic component supply chain management services Paragon is uniquely placed to enable its OEM customers to reduce their operating costs.

With the complexities and risks involved with a supply chain, a slight disruption can create an impact on bottom lines costs, which makes focused attention on managing this area extremely important. Paragon's Total Component Management^TM service is a proven way to reduce costs as itenables OEMs to outsource their entire component supply chain and avoid the complexity and reduce costs as detailed below. It's a single source for all the components used on a single, or suite of, printed circuit boards - labelled, prepared and delivered ‘assembly ready’ on a date that suits your production schedule.

When analysing the cost effectiveness of your supply chain management process, it is worth considering the 'hidden costs';

• Identifying Potential Suppliers
• Obtaining Quotations
• Placing Orders
• Progressing/expediting
• Managing obsolescence, lead-time issues and alternative part sourcing
• Deliveries
• Inspecting all material on arrival and booking in to stock
• Supplier errors and the ‘hassle’ and cost of returns
• Preparing devices
• Kitting into production multiples
• Managing the surplus items and re-issuing for the next production run
• Invoicing, statements, payments etc.

The true acquisition cost of in-house procurement and supply chain management will often be significantly higher than first thought. It is clearly a lot more that the visible, invoiced, component costs when you consider these 'hidden costs'.

For more details about how Paragon's Kitting services can reduce your real cost of acquisition, download a pdf copy of our brochure; 'Reducing Total Acquisition Cost' or ENQUIRE ON-LINE today.