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• Title: Investing in a Secure High Tech Supply Chain: Technology Supply Chains are Extremely Vulnerable--and As Craig Gottlieb, Senior Manager in Accenture's Supply Chain Management Practice, Suggests, Not Only in Areas That Consumers would Regard As 'Hi Tech.' (Industry Insider)
• Author : Supply Chain Europe
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,Industries & Professions,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 82 KB

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We don't often think about the fuzzy logic chip in our rice cookers. Nor do we ponder the server farms running our cloud-based email accounts, the great deals we get on home computers, the satellite imagery we use to research a desirable new neighbourhood, or the online payment of our income tax. We take them for granted. Yet none of them would have been possible without decades of technical progress, closely followed by decades of industrialization and refinement. Indeed, the general lack of regard for the advanced technologies we use can be boiled down to the ability of the electronics and high tech industry to refine, reduce, and ultimately commoditize the production of complex equipment. The goal was cost reduction. The instrument was the rise of low-cost manufacturing. It is nigh impossible to find an electronics and high-tech original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that actually manufactures. Contract and original design manufacturers (CMs and ODMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMSs) have made it possible for OEMs to focus on high-margin design, sales, and solution integration, leaving much of the nuts and bolts of the manufacturing process behind. Yet, while cost effective, the rise of outsourcing has created a new wrinkle as more subcontractors and hence more layers are introduced into the manufacturing process. The result is a multi-tier, global supply chain.

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