Focus on Quality, Cost, and Schedule for success with PCBs
Is your PCB Supply Chain working smoothly and effectively?
Are there some shortcomings?
Worker frustrations? Communication gaps with customers, fabricators, or carriers? Delays and rework?
Does everyone involved in the process see and use the same factual data? Or do some have their own spreadsheets and notes?
All of those hurt Quality, Cost and Schedule. Sometimes immensely.
To help trigger your own thinking about potential improvement areas, here is a simplified outline of the links in the PCB supply chain.
Receive RFQ from a customer or prospect. Record the facts.
Issue an RFQ to fabricators
Fabricators respond with their quotes. You choose one.
Generate a Quote to customer (end user department if you're the OEM).
Customer issues PO (accepts the quote). Any changes from quote need to be handled.
Create a Job and issue PO to the fabricator. Verifiy it is accepted.
Wait while the fabricator builds the boards, with their own 8-10 step process.
Accept fabricator's testing and quality assurance. Or conduct your own QA
Carry out the logistics, carrier selection, packing, and shipping to deliver boards to the customer.
Issue an invoice to the customer.
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