SCM SERVICES
Supply Chain Management
SVI is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company, listed in Thailand Stock Market. The company provides the products manufacturing services to its customers, with the coordination of the internal and external supply chain processes, to be achievable of time to market with an effective cost. It would relief the customers from the complicated activities so they can focus on their core business, and win more business from the market.
One of the key factors in supply chain is the management of information system. SVI has chosen SAP as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, which incorporate the overall internal activities in one platform and utilize it across various manufacturing sites.
In addition, a Quote pricing software has being used as a network with suppliers to be able to obtain the best lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).
To increase the focus on supply base, the global sourcing in the International Procurement Offices (IPO) is utilized to define the right sources and drive the materials cost contents thru its organization in order to provide its customers the competitive advantages. This upstream source selection by the commodity specialists determine the best suppliers who can meet a material cost and service need, as well as a quality stand point. The supplier performance expectations are communicated and cooperative in order to develop the supply chain value as well as building a good relationship and long term partnership.
SVI has proved to its customers the achievements in the processes of the forecasting, the planning, as well as the purchasing, by having the overall review of the demand and identify the actions towards the requirements. Some of many ways improving the materials availability, as well as to shorten the lead time, SVI has shared the weekly materials requirement planning (MRP) result to suppliers by having it communicated thru the company web portal, another one is to define the right materials which should be managed thru vendor managed inventory (VMI) and the buffer stock program that would increase the supply level which increase the service level to customers.
For the delivery, SVI has global and local logistics partners who are locally experience in each global region and are able to collect and consolidate the shipments of raw materials and finished goods to the right places, at the right time, with the effective cost achievement. In addition, the company has a free zone (FZ) operation which can serve customers to distribute their products to any end customers as required with a short cycle time of customs processing.