A key element in any company’s quest to create competitive advantage is the ability to strike a balance between availability of product with the least amount of liability. To optimize this balance, Federal Electronics works closely with your team to create a flexible material pipeline that will expand and contract in response to your volume variability. Key elements include:

• Component lead-time analysis and reduction
• Strategic placement of long lead-time product throughout the supply chain, with an emphasis on creating material stores as far back within the supply chain as possible, ensuring availability while minimizing cost
• Implementation of a Kanban or multi-bin system with defined triggers
• Product design reviews to increase manufacturability and reduce cycle times

Federal Electronics employs a robust series of processes to control and coordinate the acquisition and allocation of material and labor resources in support of customer demand. Misalignments between customer need and schedule completion dates are communicated to the Program Managers as they occur, providing the highest level of visibility to the person ultimately responsible for the success of the project. The Program Managers coordinate re-alignment activity and communicate status to the customer on a daily basis.