Manufacturing Outsourcing
Manage manufacturing outsourcing with Arena.
Companies making the strategic decision to outsource manufacturing or design services face an immediate challenge with far-reaching consequences — selecting the right manufacturing outsourcing partner. To make the best choice, internal resources (e.g., people, processes, technology) need to fully define and document alternative providers along with their associated risks and rewards. For many, this represents a project in itself, but this can pale in comparison to managing the relationship with your outsource manufacturing partner once you’ve awarded a contract .
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Manufacturing Outsourcing: 7 Common Pitfalls to Avoid
Through our years of experience in working with electronics OEMs and CMs, we have observed seven common pitfalls that impact outsourced
manufacturing success, including change management with contract manufacturers, outsourced manufacturing communications challenges and how to select the right partner.
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Manufacturing outsourcing overview
To be successful in outsourcing manufacturing or design, several distinct disciplines need to function in concert with your partner: engineering, sourcing, manufacturing, operations, document control, quality and others. From initial product specification to final sign-off, your product team must be in close contact with your outsourcing manufacturing partners to ensure that your cost, quality and schedule goals are met. Arena enables you to achieve these goals by enabling secure, controlled collaboration and providing the visibility you need to track the progress of design and manufacturing.
Manage manufacturing outsourcing in Arena by:
Quickly enabling manufacturing outsourcing collaboration
Arena makes it easy to establish collaborative relationships with suppliers, contract manufacturers (CMs) and design partners. Your collaborative partners need only a web browser and internet connection there is no additional software or hardware for them to buy.
Securely sharing product data with outsourced manufacturers
Arena helps you outsource manufacturing by enabling collaboration with suppliers and outsourced manufacturing partners while protecting your confidential data and documentation. Suppliers have access only to the product information you specifically share with them, and you can mark any file as private, hiding it from every supplier regardless of their level of access.
Supporting closed-loop design and sourcing processes
Regardless of organizational boundaries, Arena provides consistent support for collaborative request and change processes. You can define processes to continually capture improvement suggestions from suppliers and outsourced manufacturers to provide early visibility to all product team members to manage the impacts of design change.
Driving active outsourced manufacturing participation
By providing the framework for effective collaboration, Arena removes the cost of collaboration from the supply chain — instead of shifting it from one company to another. Also, Arena is easy to use so outsourced manufacturers and design partners can focus on your projects, not on learning a new system. By leveraging convenient on-demand training, your outsourced manufacturing partners can begin sharing and collaborating on your latest designs within a very short time frame.
Protecting critical intellectual assets
Arena has created a financial grade security infrastructure by assembling leading technologies proven to be the most secure for each function. All firewalls and encryption devices are sourced from leading internet security providers, configured by expert professionals, and tested rigorously before being placed into production. Our single instance, multi-tenant architecture extends these benefits to all customers, protecting intellectual property and securing information from inappropriate access far more effectively than even the best on-premise deployments.
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