“Serus’ intelligent operations management solution enables Avnet to collaborate with both contract manufacturers and the OEMs in coordinating inventory management in sync with the aggregated demand of the entire supply chain. Productivity improvement has been amazing."
Barbara Paulsen
Marketing Director of Global Business Management, Avnet Electronics
Solutions for Large Enterprise Semiconductor Companies
Get your arms around your global operations
Intelligent Operations Management helps semiconductor manufacturers gain visibility into far-flung outsourced operations for improved decision-making, product quality, and compliance.
Major semiconductor manufacturers know that outsourcing manufacturing can help them lower costs and more easily scale their operations. Indeed, faced with the need to compete in more markets around the world and meet aggressive growth targets, manufacturers have little choice but to leverage an increasing number of partners to get the job done. Hence, some major semiconductor firms have changed from captive fabs to a combination of in-house and external fabs, following what has become called the “fab-lite” model.
But driving new products through a global, distributed manufacturing operation creates numerous challenges, including maintaining accountability, ensuring compliance, ensuring appropriate inventory levels, tracking costs and cash flow, not to mention predicting revenue and profitability. Manufacturers struggle to gain adequate visibility into the varying information management systems its partners employ, making it difficult to access all the data they need to make good decisions and ensure timely order fulfillment. Information to be managed typically includes both WIP transactions and product manufacturing specifications. Intelligent Operations Management provides the answer.
Serus delivers a competitive and financial edge through technology and managed services for companies with distributed and outsourced manufacturing operations, utilizing our Serus Platform and Serus Ecosystem, which include connectors to subcontractors and trading partners. For global inventory visibility, accountability, and management at semiconductor firms, our Serus Enterprise solution is provides improved inventory visibility and complete transaction auditing, enabling you to accurately commit to delivery dates and improve customer service. Serus Enterprise gives you the information you need to make better decisions, including the ability to reduce inventory levels and financial exposure. In short, you’ll move more quickly from product design to profitability.
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