Case Study - Agritech

When the leadership at this Agri tech company looked at the company’s growing delivery issues it became apparent that although redesigning the supply chain would yield some benefits, one of the most significant issues was their material supply issues, production and delivery costs. This company was outsourcing the manufacture of their devices to the original product design company who in turn were outsourcing the assembly of some parts of the product to another company neither of which had expertise in modern day supply chain management.
This lack of expertise proved not only to hamper effective production and stock availability, but the knock-on effect was an inability to deliver product to customers within guaranteed timeframes. The fact that the product was being shipped from the UK to customers throughout Europe also added to their product delivery challenges.

The integrated services of PCB manufacture, box build assembly, test and logistics support offered by EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC SOLUTIONS was a perfect solution for this company. European Electronic Solutions services enabled this company to supply product to their customers without the complexity of multiple suppliers, materials sourcing, people management and out of control shipping costs. EES supported the tactical aspects of getting their products to customers.

European Electronic Solutions is as a single source vendor could assemble PCB’s and manufacture their electronic device product in a smart way to speed time to production, eliminate sourcing hassles, and communicate lead times and shipping costs.

European Electronic Solutions offered them an online portal that provided production quotes, lead times and shipping costs to their customers based anywhere in the world in minutes as opposed to the back-and-forth, email -and -wait experience that traditional manufacturers usually provide. The cloud-based portal provided them with complete visibility into the status of their orders or inventory whenever they want it.

Working with European Electronic Solutions gave them a partner that supports the entire product lifecycle and freed them from the headache of inventory storage, product manufacturing and shipping and streamlined their go to market approach. Not only does this relationship free them up to work on more creative and strategic endeavours such as market expansion and new product development but it reduced their overall costs by leveraging the overhead and supplier discounts that European Electronic Solutions has in place.

There were some unique manufacturing & pre-shipping requirements associated with the project which required bespoke solutions. Additionally, some members of the European Electronic Solutions team undertook specific technical training to enhance their knowledge of the product and its functionality. The variable cost end to end manufacturing and supply chain model European Electronic Solutions has in place enabled the company to respond to increase demand for their products quickly and cost effectively unburdened by customs fomalities or fixed costs.