Benchmark is committed to being an extension of your supply chain, while bringing the leverage of our global resources to ensure that your flexibility, service, and cost expectations are fulfilled.

The global Benchmark Electronics Supply Chain organization coordinates the material support functions for its 17 manufacturing sites globally. Through its company wide & global commodity teams, Global Procurement database, and strategic supplier relationships, Benchmark is able to offer in-depth commodity analysis, flexible supply chain strategies, personal service, and aggressive world class material cost.

Benchmark’s commodity teams are cross-divisional, cross functional teams that address all of the major material and service groups utilized within the company. These teams facilitate the instant feedback of global market conditions and trends that allow the type of rapid response & horizontal deployment necessary to ensure a world class cost structure, while still supporting dynamic production requirements. The commodity teams furthermore facilitate the selection of strategic suppliers, preferred suppliers and new supplier evaluation. It is by the selection of our commodity teams that preferred suppliers are chosen, and recommended to our design engineers, and our customers for new designs, sustaining or End of Life. These recommendations strengthen our supplier partnerships, which further help to improve our flexibility, service, and total cost during the life cycle of our customers’ products.

Benchmark’s Global Procurement database is a key enabler that provides the ability to leverage our total materials spend across all of our 17 locations worldwide. The database provides for the analysis of historical, current, and forecasted material commitments. This provides the ability to aggregate & leverage the total global usage by an individual manufacturer’s part number, by a given supplier, or by a specific commodity. This data also helps the commodity teams to monitor and track total spend within a commodity, and those key supplier partners that support the various product groups. The capture of our world wide material activities also allows Benchmark to level load or utilize excess inventories across our global sites, thus improving our flexibility while reducing the liability & costs to our customers.

Benchmark purchases from over 2,000 suppliers, world wide, and has material agreements with over 250 suppliers. Our strong supplier relationships & management of them also allow us to call on the expertise of our suppliers within their markets. These relationships allow us to work better with our preferred supply base in bringing the best total value to our customers.

• Strategic Value –v- Criticality of product to end offering
• Supply Chain Set Up / NPI & Supplier Selection
• Technology / NPI Roadmap

• Articulate intentions & goals
• Develop Partnership structure
• Measure Quality & Performance
• Drive improvements…

• Determine which plants & suppliers are best located to meet customer demands
• What is level of Service/Capacity required

• How best should production be organized & managed using new concepts, processes & technologies
• Optimize balance between customer satisfaction & efficiency

• Efficiencies of Supply Chain
• Opportunities in Cost Reduction / Lead-time Reduction / Flexibility / VMI

Success Factors	Deliverables
Supply Chain Strategy	Develop the Supply Chain Architecture Establish the Supply Chain (Plan/Buy/Make/Move) Manage Change, Risk & Responsiveness Assurance of Supply in Upturns Minimized Downturn Exposure Cycle Time Reduction / Flexibility New Product Introduction (NPI) & Time to Market (TTM)
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership	Competitive Cost Base & Add / Improve Value Lower Inventories (VMI, Hubbing,,)
Collaborative Strategic Sourcing	Product Quality (DPM, RCCA, BPR, FMEA, DFX) Global Relationship Mgt. / Matrix Mgt. / Leverage Supplier Consolidation & Development Best Practice / Most Competitively Advantaged & Use Supplier Expertise Technological Access, Advancements & R&D
Alignment & Integration	Service Level Agreement’s (SLA) Speed of information Flow Scorecard & Key Measurements Business Reviews (QBR’s: BEI, Cust. & Supp) Integrated Supply Chain Partnership (B2B, EDI..)