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How to Reduce your Part Cost without Negotiating – Whitepaper

admin2 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:39:20 +0000

How to Reduce your Part Cost without Negotiating – Free White Paper Report

We have compiled a list of techniques and areas that provide a sort of “checklist” that can be used when trying to reduce the cost of a given component, but they do not require negotiating with the supplier or vendor. Essentially, these are proven areas that many times allow cost to come down through empirical data vs. strong-arming or pushing the vendor/supplier — which is an entirely different area for which many other papers and books have been written.

The value of having a list like this of these areas of cost reduction is that it is a very efficient, easy, and low stress way to verify if easy money is being left on the table due to simply not knowing there could be a lower cost available. This easy money savings is not necessarily in excess profit for the supplier/vendor, but rather “wasted cost” that is built into a given scenario, that may not be adding any “value” to you. Essentially, this non-negotiating process is about “waste elimination” at its root level. We reveal a bunch of “must-do” techniques in this report.

This is a short overview report/reference that walks through a handful of simple, but effective, ways to reduce component cost without negotiating – just by asking some basic questions. If you would like a FREE copy of this White Paper report, you can send an email to MyFeedback@DEE-inc.com with “How to Reduce My Cost without Negotiating Report” in the subject line, and provide your contact information.

5 Key Factors to Successful Supplier Reduction / Rationalization

admin2 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:39:03 +0000

Reducing the supplier base is a major initiative of all equipment manufacturers. This can be a difficult and time-consuming project. DEE offers a white paper report regarding 5 Key Factors that facilitate effective supplier reduction projects based on observations of many OEMs, where supplier reduction was achieved with simultaneous cost savings. If you would like a copy of this Free report, just send an email to MyFeedback@DEE-inc.com with “Supplier Reduction Report” in the subject line, and provide your contact information.

4 Key Steps to Properly Manage EOL (End of Life) Parts – Free Report

admin2 — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:00:43 +0000

End of Life (EOL) issues are something that every Original Equipment Manufacturer Engineer, Buyer, Purchasing and Materials Manager, and Supply Manager have to deal with on a weekly basis. Although parts going End of Life is unavoidable, because everything comes to an end, there are proactive and strategic steps that can be taken to better manage the EOL situation. Better managing the EOL circumstance means less time invested or wasted dealing with an EOL problem, avoidance of costly line down situations, or avoiding getting caught without warranty coverage.

This white paper report outlines 4 Key Steps identified through the learning and data collected from other Original Equipment Manufacturers to properly and strategically manage and navigate through End of Life part circumstances.

Free White Paper Report: DEE has written a Free White Paper Report based on data collected from many OEMs on the 4 key aspects of managing EOL situations. If you would like a free copy of this report, just send an email to MyFeedback@DEE-inc.com with “EOL Solutions Report” in the subject line, and provide your contact information.

How to Increase the Amount of Supplier-Nominated Cost Savings – Free Report

admin1 — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:20:19 +0000

There is a big opportunity to utilize Supplier-nominated cost savings programs as a way to supplement all of your efforts to drive cost reductions, and improve your supplier relationship at the same time. Done right, a supplier nominated savings program can be a systematic and effective tool to tap your suppliers for their insights, creativity, and expertise in a way that benefits both parties.

Dee has written a Free Whitepaper that discusses the key best practices strategies that have been observed to be used successfully by Equipment Manufacturers in order to best creat the environment to maximize Supplier-Nominated Savings. The report also identifies the biggest mistakes that are made by companies that reduce their opportunity for Suppliers to proactively drive cost savings for their company.

If you would like a copy of this Free White Paper Report, just send an email to MyFeedback@Dee-inc.com, use “Supplier Nominated Cost Savings Report” in the subject line, and provide your contact information.

5 Things That Should Be Done on an RFQ (But Never Are) to Get Significant Cost Savings and Best Cost Outcomes

admin2 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:58:45 +0000

DEE has developed a White Paper Report as a result of analysis and observations and data with respect to the activities and effectiveness of the RFQ outcomes for our manufacturer clients. Specifically, in this paper, we identify the things that are rarely ever done on RFQs by manufacturers — but should be, to achieve cost savings and best cost outcomes. These key actions apply to both large RFQ’s as well as single line or small RFQ’s, but obviously have greatest impact and greatest economies of scale on bigger RFQ situations. The five areas we have outlined in this report do not constitute every strategy/tactic, however, these do represent a list of key things that our data indicate are critical to maximize cost savings and supplier reduction. All are straight forward to implement, and they can all be tested in a small way to verify that the results are worth the effort (good ROI).

If you would like a copy of this FREE White Paper Report, just send an email to MyFeedback@DEE-inc.com, use “5 Key Things to Leverage RFQs Report” in the subject line, and include your contact information.

The 5 Most Important Factors When Implementing Supplier Reduction and Achieving Simultaneous Cost Savings

admin1 — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:17:44 +0000

Implementing successful Supplier Reduction is a big animal. Implementing significant Cost Savings is another big goal. Both Strategies are at the top of the list with nearly all Equipment Manufacturers. They are both challenging and critically important objectives and implementing and executing both of these strategies successfully at the same time presents extreme challenges. DEE has written a Free White Paper Report that outlines the 5 Most Critical Factors to achieving both Supplier Reduction and Cost Savings simultaneously. The information presented in this report has been accumulated and analyzed over a period of many years of working with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s). What the report shares is a nicely consolidated list of best practice factors that have lead to actual Supplier Reduction/Cost Savings success at different equipment manufacturers.

If you would like a copy of this FREE White Paper Report, just send an email to MyFeedback@Dee-inc.com, put in a Subject of “5 Key Factors to Supplier Reduction and Cost Savings Simultaneously” Report, and provide your contact information.

6 Key Reasons Why You can Buy a Direct Part for Less Money from a Value-Added Integrator Than you Can Buying the Part Direct from the Manufacturer

admin2 — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:08:19 +0000

Free White Paper

It is mainstream conventional wisdom that a company (OEM or CM) can purchase a component for a lower price or less money directly from the manufacturer of the component than from an intermediary such as a Value-Added Integrator. And, although this may have been found to be the case on some occasions, it has clearly been proven not to be the case in many situations. In other words, an assumption of ‘it’s cheaper to buy direct’ would be a gross over simplification of reality.

In this Free White Paper, we identify 6 key reasons why it is not cheaper to buy ‘Direct’, and in fact, it is lower cost to purchase parts and components from a Value-Added Integrator.

If you would like a copy of this Free Report, just send an email to MyFeedback@Dee-inc.com, put in a subject of “6 Reasons for Lower Cost on Direct Parts Report”, and provide your contact information.

5 Key Tactics to Dramatically Reducing the Time it Takes to Get an Alternate Cost Savings Approved

admin2 — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:00:39 +0000

You have a nice alternate cost savings served up for review, but now the process slows down. Engineering needs to do a review, testing, possibly field testing, etc… Over the course of many years and many Cost Savings Projects implemented with our clients, we have documented 5 Key Tactics to dramatically reduce the time it takes to get Cost Savings Alternates approved in a Free White Paper Report.

The $$$ Savings is not real until the part is Approved and in the pipeline. This Free White Paper Report reveals key tactics to shorten the time from savings proposal to implemented Cost Savings booked.

For a copy of this Free Whitepaper Report, just send an email to MyFeedback@dee-inc.com , put in a subject of “5 Tactics For Faster Alternate Part Savings”, and provide your contact information.

How to Dramatically Reduce Costs of Your Safety Relays

admin2 — Fri, 07 May 2010 09:29:14 +0000

Original equipment manufacturers need compact, flexible safety solutions, but many safety systems on the market require complex software with expensive licensing fees. This can deter OEMs from these products in favor of familiar, time-tested safety relays. As a result, safety relays might be selected for an application when a safety system or safety controller is a better solution. Dee Electronics creates an easy transition for clients who were reluctant to use a configurable system or safety controller due to complexity and cost.

If you would like a FREE copy of this Report, please send an email to MyFeedback@dee-inc.com with “Safety Controller” in the subject line, and be sure to include your contact information.

Key Secrets to Implementing a Reusable Container Program Free Whitepaper

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:04:07 +0000

Implementing a Reusable Container/Packaging program is something that many companies, including many Equipment Manufacturers, are pursuing for obvious reasons. There are some attractive reasons to do so, such as reducing packaging waste that has a cost in both storage and disposal. Another advantage is reducing environmental waste impact via the recycling of containers and packaging. However, there are relatively few companies, by percentage, that have implemented a comprehensive reusable/recycled container replenishment program across multiple commodities or throughout their entire supply chain.

Why have more equipment manufacturers not implemented reusable packaging replenishment programs or not implemented them across most of their commodities, when it is such a desirable and popular concept?

There are several key reasons for this, and we address these in this FREE Whitepaper report. Furthermore, and more importantly, we will address how these roadblocks to implementation can be overcome (aka ‘key secrets’ to implementing a reusable container replenishment program).

If you would like a copy of this FREE Whitepaper, just send an email to MyFeedback@dee-inc.com, put in a Subject of “Secrets to Implementing a Reusable Container Program Report”, and provide your complete contact information.