How have your strategic priorities been impacted by the global labor shortage and supply chain delays?
- Is your team allocating excessive resources on peripheral, non-strategic activities?
- Does your manufacturing partner provide expertise to solve critical business challenges?
- How have your strategic priorities been impacted by supply chain constraints?
The partner you choose for your business makes all the difference. Choose a forward-thinking manufacturer that aligns their resources with their supply chain strategic priorities. Key partnerships like this bring in outside expertise, specialized knowledge and critical insights to solve your business challenges.
Our client is a subsidiary of a world-class equipment and services company. They lead in autonomous technology by using machine imaging and GPS. This client is revolutionizing their industry by applying technology in breakthrough ways. As an innovation-driven company, their strategic priorities are new products and technologies.
3 Steps to Assess Your Resource Allocation
- Analyze whether communication with your strategic partners addresses issues effectively
- Review the costs of staff shortages including recruiting, training, overtime and turnover on your bottom line
- Consider the measurable impact of delays and shortages on your team’s ability to ship on-time and complete.
Unfortunately, what often happens in growing organizations is company resources are stretched too thin. Our client was hiring new workers while continuing to invest in physical space and capacity. The Nortech team partnered with our client to identify opportunities to align resources with their strategic priorities. We did this by identifying components to be transitioned to Nortech’s higher volume, near shore manufacturing facility. By transferring the production of specific components, our client was able to focus on their core competencies: new technologies and finished equipment production.
With current global raw material supply shortages, many businesses, like our client, are finding value partnering with experienced manufacturers. Strategically, this gives the businesses a competitive advantage by removing peripheral activities from their core facilities. It also reduces related expenses and creates more space to invest and innovate in other areas.
Our client had outgrown their capacity to supply cables to their own manufacturing line. They needed a high-quality, high-volume partner to augment their own processes. Nortech’s quality, engineering and supply chain teams collaborated well with the client to transfer labor intensive cable production. This freed up their team to focus on other priorities.
The two companies worked together to identify and track all major steps in the transfer process. Some of the steps included updating the BOMS, work instructions, drawings, and verification of all materials against master samples for accuracy and completeness. Together, our strong camaraderie, consistent communication and clear quality management processes ensured the successful design transfer from the client’s operations to Nortech’s facility.
Nortech Partnership Results
Nortech delivers measurable value through technical expertise. Through our robust and flexible processes, we connect and engage with our clients to solve problems. Our client has commented on a number of quality features, including the braiding of cable assemblies. They said the quality surprised them and was even better than expected.
Our two companies now partner closely to share materials to address supply chain issues creatively and proactively. Even when those supply chain concerns falling outside of the core project. The design transfer to Nortech’s facility was successful and yielded high-quality product on time and complete.
Are you ready to see how Nortech can solve your supply chain priorities? Contact us now!