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Jabil, based in St. Petersburg, Fla., also urged them to stop clustering their factories around their headquarters, says John Caltabiano , vice president of global sourcing.
Reinforcing the Supply Chain Maxwell Murphy 2012
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Caltabiano says during the past year, Solectron has had a lot of discussions with suppliers on how the EMS provider could be a better customer.
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Caltabiano says that 250 suppliers make up about 80% of Solectron's spend.
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"Teams develop the strategy and are responsible for getting all the regions and sites to agree to it," says Caltabiano.
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"With some standard product commodities, price is the biggest weighted factor because the technology is very standard," says Caltabiano.
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"We had commodity teams four years ago, but they were guys who did corporate contracts," says Caltabiano.
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As Solectron develops its supplier management expertise, more OEMs are turning toward Solectron to manage their approved vendor lists, says Caltabiano.
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Caltabiano adds that customers are going to expect Solectron to have more procurement capability in Asia.
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"We had to get more sophisticated," says Caltabiano.
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"Many in the industry are fearful because the people at the end of the supply chain get abused the most during a buyers 'market," says Caltabiano.
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