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Electronics Next India 2010
Elcoteq will introduce its electronics manufacturing services at Electronics Next India 2010. The event is being held February 24-26, 2010, at India, New Delhi, Pragati Maidan, Hall No. 6. Electronics Next India 2010 is the leading trade fair for electronics manufacturing services (EMS), electronic components, materials and production equipment, with 500 leading industry exhibitors from more than 15 countries. Pragati Maidan is the venue for many national and international exhibitions. The Elcoteq stand is located in Hall 6 at 724-725.
Professionals from Elcoteq’s Group organization and Bangalore plant will be available at the Elcoteq stand in hall 6 at 724-725 during the exhibition. Elcoteq’s representatives will also speak in the panel discussion and in two specific Elcoteq seminars.
In the first day of seminar on February, 24, Mr. Patrik Ahgren, Vice President, APAC Sales and Business Development of Elcoteq, will describe ways to optimize total cost of ownership by outsourcing to India. On February 25, Mr. Yogesh Sarin, Supply Chain Manager of Elcoteq Electronics India Pvt. Ltd. will illustrate the importance of localization in India and share Elcoteq’s practical experience in developing the local supply chain. Mr. Sukhvinder Kumar, General Manager of Elcoteq Electronics India Pvt. Ltd. will share his view on EMS and the opportunities for India in the Global Electronics Industry in the panel discussion on February 25, 2010.
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Elcoteq Becomes Inmarsat’s Manufacturing and Life Cycle Services Partner
Elcoteq SE has been selected as the global manufacturing and Life Cycle Services partner for Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services. Elcoteq will start manufacturing IsatPhone Pro, Inmarsat’s first global handheld satellite phone, in its facility in Tallinn, Estonia during the second quarter of 2010. The launch of the new product is planned for June 2010.
The agreement with Elcoteq covers the Life Cycle Services that include engineering services, component sourcing, NPI and prototyping, box-build, manufacturing and repair services for the products. Elcoteq has been Inmarsat’s design partner in the product’s finalization and industrialization of the IsatPhone Pro. industrialization of the IsatPhone Pro.
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Meet with Elcoteq at MWC 2010
The 2010 Mobile World Congress will be held 15-18 February, in Barcelona Spain. In 2009, Mobile World Congress hosted approximately 47,000 mobile professionals from 182 countries. The event’s theme for 2010 is Vision in Action.
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Elcoteq Monterrey Received the C-TPAT Certificate
C-TPAT (Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) is the leading security certification in North America. It is an initiative developed to promote the voluntary relationship between government and industry to improve the international supply chains and homeland security.
C-TPAT recognizes that United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can provide the highest level of security cargo through close cooperation with the handlers of supply chains, i.e. importers, carriers, brokers, custom brokers and manufacturers. It offers trade-oriented businesses the opportunity to actively participate in the war against terrorism and its focus on strengthening supply chain security.
Responsible supply chain management ensures product safety and reduces liability in global expansion
When expanding a business globally, most companies wish to deal with products and manufacturing over several geographical areas. No matter where the products are manufactured, companies expect to deliver to their customers’ products that arrive on time and that are of the highest quality and safety, as well as ensure Competitive total cost and overall quality. That’s an imperative to maintain brand loyalty and sustainable business growth. Responsible supply chain management throughout the entire product lifecycle is essential if a company is to keep that promise to its customers and to protect goodwill in every region and product-related aspect.
Responsibility of a true global supply chain
To maintain a low procurement cost, acceptable component quality, sufficient inventory levels and on-time logistics arrangements become substantial parts of supply chain management. In a true global supply chain, the company should manage its suppliers from regional sites so interactions take into account and accommodate each region’s cultural background, standards, and agreements. At the same time the company needs to coordinate the supply chain globally. Especially when doing business in countries where environmental protection and social responsibility are of particular concern, it must be ensured that suppliers in those regions comply with local legislation for those aspects. To secure new materials and handle obsolete material properly, the company also needs to keep track of and implement regulations as they are instituted.
Elcoteq’s proactive approach for a responsible supply chain
Elcoteq’s main business is to provide electronics manufacturing services to enterprises involved in communications technology and to manage their supply chains. Elcoteq fully understands the needs of those businesses and has a proactive approach to ensure a responsible supply chain for its customers - all over the world. In its manufacturing services, Elcoteq only uses components and subcontractors that have been approved by its customers and provides service of supplier and component qualification, Early Supplier Involvement in new product program and full quality assurance of components used in production. Elcoteq both manufactures and tests the products in accordance with the agreed specifications and standards. Performing inspection for incoming materials, it is ensured that components delivered by suppliers meet conformance to requirements, such as reliability, quality and environmental requirements.
Component and supplier related information are registered, stored and managed for global visibility by a Global Supplier Database, that gives a clear view on supply performance, when it comes to component delivery and quality. The information in this database is used for optimizing quality assurance in the supply chain and identifying product quality and liability risks related to components and materials. There is also a system to help reporting the product recyclability, which is an important element in meeting requirements such as the WEEE Directive, which require certain recyclability levels for electronic products. Elcoteq has a dedicated approval process for ensuring that products and production measure up to requirements. Procedures agreed on with the customer are used in product testing and inspections as well as product database management. Elcoteq is responsible for the confidentiality, correctness, and availability of its information on individual products and customers. Elcoteq ensures that Supplier meet the Environmental laws and regulation (ISO1401, SA8000), Quality System Requirement (ISO 9001, TL 9000 or ISO/TS 16949), Regulatory Agency compliance/Product safety by Supplier Audits for new suppliers.
Elcoteq has incorporated corporate responsibility issues into supplier management processes, requirements, and audits as well as created a separate operating model for the corporate responsibility audits to be applied for identified high-risk suppliers. All of its suppliers are required to have an environmental system in line with ISO14001 and to comply with the principles of SA8000.
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Successful Execution of Global Concept
Elcoteq is able to assert itself in a global network made of 15 countries and in three time zones by well directed communication and successful combination of local and global circumstances.
By Cornelia Villani
“Agility is of high importance in the electronics industry,” Hannu Hautala the Vice President of Elcoteq System Solutions says. “Products are often developed further every half a year. That’s why it is important for us to reduce our stock as much as possible in order to react quickly to market fluctuations without excess material.” Elcoteq has therefore nit a tight net of communication with its globally spread customers. “We are proud to look back on 25 years of experience in the field,“ Hautala says.
Elcoteq is listed on the Nasdaq OMX Helsinki and employs some 13 000 people on four continents. Net Sales in 2008 were 3.44 billion Euro.
“Elcoteq is always operating where the markets of our customers are,“ Mr. Hautala points out. Further criteria for choosing locations are labor costs, small distances to the customers and the education level of workers. Complex communications systems are being manufactured: “We are supplying the whole portfolio, from PCBA manufacturing to mechanical assembly and software uploading all the way to final testing, packaging and delivering.“ Elcoteq’s service-offering additionally consists of sourcing, engineering services and logistics.
Hautala pictures Elcoteq’s ways of working in global markets by showing two example cases of sourcing localizations: cost and complexity diminishing concepts were applied together with two big customers, one from China and one from Europe, which brought them “closer to their customers and to first class suppliers“. Stocks were cut in half and several weeks of lead time were saved, which benefited the cost calculations and the environment in addition to bringing higher flexibility.
Implementation of global strategies is being carried out on a professional level. “We have global development units, which work in tight cooperation with each other,“ Hautala explains. They receive their input from our offices and plants. In addition Elcoteq’s supply chain experts make sure that customer’s needs are being met. “We have certain milestones that have to be reached, when a new project is being ramped up. By these means individual management can be build up systematically step by step. Part of the supporting strategy is also, that the processes are separated in three times zones, but developed in consistent ways. This way, products and production can be quickly globally transferred without surprises.“
In order to reach these common goals with customers we have to make sure to communicate well, so that the specialists on both sides are able to cooperate. Hautala points out that the implementation of a truly global supply chain or a network like that of Elcoteq is very complex and needs time to be build up“.
3C Expo in Dongguan
Elcoteq Dongguan participated in the 3C Expo on October 14 at Dongguan International Exhibition Center. Altogether 557 enterprises participated in the event. The event attracted 8,500 visitors from different regions of China. hina.
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The Second Elcoteq Forum in Stuttgart
Mr. Stephan E. Willigens
“The development of traditional value chain into a network will most definitely accompany us throughout the next five years,” said Mr. Stephan E. Willigens at the second Elcoteq Forum in September in the Millennium Hotel in Stuttgart, Germany.
Mr. Willigens from the Supply Chain Management Institute of the European Business School, Schloss Reichartshausen in Oestrich-Winkel, spoke in front of numerous interested listeners about Quality and flexibility without stock. “As provocative as this topic may be”, Mr. Willigens smiled.
According to Mr. Willigen’s theory companies are able to react flexibly and with consistent standard of quality to changing market situations, if they are in multilateral relationships with their customers, suppliers and partners. “At the moment 80% of all companies are still using traditional methods”, he assumed.
“Every single one is operating isolated in its own bipolar and straight forward nutshell. Target has to be to identify local and global networks and to define consistent structures. This way the extra costs and lead time can be saved through the mentioned reduction of stock and the risk of being hit by surprise by changing market situations, shrinks significantly,” Willigens says.
Most crucial for this development and the alignment of networks are the customers’ requirements.
“I first have to fully understand what the customer wants from me,” Willigens says. “This information has to then be communicated to every single component of the supply networks on a regular basis, because transparency is one key factor of a well working network,” he stresses. Furthermore it has to be considered that in a global network different cultures come together. “Human beings as additional key factor have to be considered. It is also indispensable to analyze already existing structures on the partner side in order to reorganize in a simple and practical way in order to work together. It is important that the common processes are being lived,” Mr. Willigens concluded.
How Elcoteq is living these kinds of networks already today was shown by Hannu Hautala, Vice President Elcoteq System Solutions, in his presentation. Concepts for cost and complexity reductions have been implemented together with big Chinese and European customers, by moving production to other continents close to the customers and to qualified, first class suppliers. Benefits were that stock was cut in half, several weeks of lead time was saved and flexibility was increased.
The Elcoteq Forum is a platform for decision makers in related industries. The event offered participants a good possibility to learn and discuss about the current topics in the industry and to network with other industry leaders.
Mr. Hannu Hautala, Vice President, Elcoteq System Solutions
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Elcoteq Bangalore won the prestigious ELCINA - D & B award for Excellence in Quality
Elcoteq’s Plant in Bangalore, India has received the prestigious 2008-2009 ELCINA –DUN & BRADSTREET first place award for Excellence in Quality.
The Awards were presented by the Chief Guest Shri R Chandrashekhar, Secretary Department of IT and the Guest Honour Shri Rakesh Singh who is the Additional Secretary, at a ceremony in New Delhi, India on September 18, 2009.
Elcoteq Juarez Celebrated its First Anniversary
Elcoteq’s plant in Juarez, Mexico celebrated its first anniversary as part of the Elcoteq on September 1, 2009. Elcoteq announced the acquisition of Philips´ flat panel TV (FTV) assembly operations in Juarez in September 2008. The personnel in Juarez plant joined the worldwide Elcoteq family.
The deal includes a long term cooperation agreement with Philips to provide manufacturing services to Philips for its Latin American FTV business and its PBS (Philips Business Services) business in the Americas and a long term cooperation agreement with Funai Electric Co., Ltd to provide manufacturing services to Funai’s FTV business in North America.
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