Global Sourcing and Procurement
VEXOS understands the crucial role that supply chain services play in our customers' businesses. We continuously strive to provide sustainable solutions. VEXOS is uniquely positioned in commodities such as printed circuit boards (PCB) and electro-mechanical components, and can achieve cost reduction for our customers in solutions such as injection molded plastics, metal stampings, sheet metal, extrusions, membrane switches, cable and other products, all of which typically have significant costs involved within electronic assemblies.
Managing the product through its entire product lifecycle is crucial to our customers' success. By utilizing proprietary analytical tools, VEXOS can provide assistance from inception of a product through field service requirements and manage the lifecycle of critical components on the BOM.
Our sourcing and procurement teams are globally positioned to search out and develop the most cost-effective material supply available. Our global commodity reach allows VEXOS to utilize the best suppliers around the globe, while our regional commodity teams bring value to local customers requiring unique solutions for their regional needs.
Supply Chain Flexibility and Visibility
VEXOS supports customers by focusing on initiatives that help them to gain and maintain a cost-effective competitive advantage. This is achieved by providing end-to-end supply chain services enabling the optimization of each step within the chain.
We offer vendor managed inventory and consignment programs, as well as warehousing management initiatives to assist our customers in reducing their lead times, ensuring consistent supply and minimizing their inventory carrying costs.
VEXOS offers supply chain services, enabling the optimization of each step within the chain. These services are available to VEXOS customers with or without inventory ownership. By combining VEXOS' internal competencies, our supply chain services allow our customers to make better, cost-effective decisions.
Kanban and Lean Supply Chain
VEXOS' Kanban programs are geared towards providing customers with flexibility and adaptability to address customer demand patterns. Working directly with our customers to design a lean supply chain our Kanban systems, combined with our direct fulfillment offerings, provide a complete third party logistics solution for those customers that require greater levels of flexibility, visibility and responsiveness when it comes to their supply chain requirements.
Direct Fulfillment and Aftermarket Services
VEXOS' direct fulfillment and aftermarket services are designed to complement our state-of-the-art supply chain, value engineering and manufacturing service offerings in order to provide the customer with a complete solution for their product supply chain. VEXOS delivers finished, fully configured units to our customers globally.
Logistics & Aftermarket Services
- Direct end-user fulfillment services
- Kanban program
- Seamless manufacturing transition to/from domestic facility from/to China manufacturing facility
- On-site secure warehouse/depot management
- Kitting, staging and shipping services
- Warranty returns management
- Warranty returns inventory management
- Field returns management
- Hot site spares replenishment programs
- Inventory management services
- Inventory reporting and analysis
- Inventory control management
- Environmental compliance for product disposal and reclamation
- Measurement and management to customer specified metrics
- Customs, tariff and logistics support
DFSC (Design for Supply Chain) “Risk Management Analysis”
Managing components and suppliers is more critical than ever as obsolescence, counterfeit and non-compliance risks continue to grow and can be categorized within two distinct realms:
Proactive versus Reactive
Reactive approach to obsolescence management relies on taking action once a component event such as the release of a Product Discontinuance Notice (PDN) has already occurred, advising the OEM of an impending change in the component’s lifecycle. This approach is fraught with potential error and late information becoming available to the OEM.
Proactive approach focus on predicting component obsolescence prior to the issuance of the PDN. OEMs using a proactive approach to obsolescence management assign risk grades to each component and have appropriate measures in place to deal with the lifecycle change of a component in the future.