Supply Chain, Back to the Future!
- Kenny McGee
- 07/03/2017
- Continuous Improvement
- Independent Distributor
- OEM
- EMS
- traceability
- Cost reduction
- counterfeit
- Franchised Distributor
- ERAI
- Supply chain Management
- Supply Chain Solutions
- Cost savings
- Traceable stock
- Obsolete
- Surplus
- Supply Chain

The negative impact of the counterfeit threat has hit OEM and EMS companies hard. For many, cost reduction through clever sourcing is no longer an option as it is deemed too risky. How did this happen? I started out in the electronics business 32 years ago serving my time as an engineer in the Aerospace sector. Much later, when I joined one of the world's largest Franchised Distributors in 1999 I began to realise that every company I dealt with had a few "brokers" up their sleeve. This allowed them to make PPV or savings on their BOM cost. At...