Outsourcing & Supply Chain Management

Product Fulfillment & Outsourcing Management
With more than 25-years experience working with offshore design and manufacturing companies, Elite Electronics has developed very strong, strategic relationships with a proven group of ISO 9001:2000 European and Asian companies.  These companies along with Elite Electronics form a 'value added supply chain' that is capable of providing total program support from product design and development to raw material sourcing, production order fulfillment and aftermarket support and service.
When Elite Electronics enters into an outsourcing agreement with our Customers, Elite sees itself not only as a supplier but as a 'valued member' of our Customer's product delivery team.  To ensure that this philosophy works, Elite Electronics works very closely with our Customers to determine each Customer's near- and long-term product requirements.  Elite believes the first and most important objective is to establish a simple yet efficient and comprehensive communications process that leaves nothing to guesswork.
With the help of our Customers' product development and delivery teams, Elite Electronics:
♦	Develops & Standardizes the Sourcing Requirements and Processes
	Ÿ	Product Quality
	Ÿ	Product Costs
	Ÿ	Product Design & Delivery Cycles
	Ÿ	Product Ebb & Flow Requirements Based on Market Demands
		▪	Bonded Domestic Inventory requirements to be maintained by Elite Electronics
♦	Product Lifecycle Management
	Ÿ	Development & Prototyping Time
	Ÿ	Production Manufacturing & Delivery Life
		▪	Determines most cost-effective raw material sourcing & costs
		▪	Determines staffing & manufacturing throughput requirements
		▪	Determines aftermarket support requirements
♦	Optimizing Strategic Partner Selection
	Ÿ	Near & Long-term labor availability and cost analysis
	Ÿ	Near & Long-term raw material availability and cost analysis
	Ÿ	Inventory Costs
	Ÿ	Transportation Costs
	Ÿ	Customs Tariffs & Brokerage Fees
♦	Optimizing Delivery Performance
	Ÿ	Communications
		▪	Establish Standard Response Times for normal and expedited delivery requirements
		▪	Product Delivery Requirements based on normal shipping cycles
		▪	Delivery Uptake or Delay based on market demands
	Ÿ	Delivery Stability
		▪	Primary & Secondary Raw Material Supply Sourcing
		▪	Manufacturing Throughput Capacity Assessment
		▪	Approved Second Source Manufacturing Capability

Elite Electronics requires its fabricating sources to provide a written ISO Certificate of Compliance (C of C) inclusive of the product's ISO Manufacturing Date Code, RoHS - 2002/95/EC (Directive on the Restriction of the use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical & Electronic Equipment) and WEEE - 2002/96/EC (Directive on Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment) compliance with each production shipment.  

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