Supply Chain & Logistics Services

Flexible, Integrated Supply Chain for Cost-Competitive Advantage

In today’s competitive global marketplace, OEMs must have the right product available at the right time to avoid losing market share to more agile competitors. Factors such as higher inventory turns, shorter product life cycles, and increased expectations for agility make a flexible and scalable integrated supply chain essential for success. Federal Electronics’ supply chain and logistics services provide the necessary flexibility and scalability to meet these demands, ensuring that your products are delivered efficiently and cost-effectively.

Design for Supply Chain

Strategic Supplier Selection: Our supplier network includes rigorously vetted and qualified suppliers of custom fabricated components (such as sheet metal and precision machined parts) located both domestically and in a low-cost region.
Supplier Business Process Alignment: Suppliers are adept at supporting the unique challenges associated with highly complex, highly engineered, highly regulated products.
Component Lifecycle Management: Rapid response to component end-of-life notifications maintains a viable pipeline aligned with your demand signals. Updating component profiles in our ERP system with the latest lead-time data ensures that ordering policies remain accurate.

Logistics

Direct Shipping: Stock and ship products directly to your sites as part of a forecast-driven Kanban program.
Staging Options: Stage products at our Cranston facility as finished products or subassemblies for integration.
Global Logistics: Experienced in shipping to customer locations worldwide.

Strategic Optimization

Material Requirement Planning

For forecast-driven engagements, periodic ERP system updates based upon your demand and inventory position, coupled with scaling factors (if applicable) optimizes supply without creating excess, or risking shortages.
Resetting supply and demand on a daily basis with dampening controls to eliminate order stream maintenance signal noise, produces greater reliability and responsiveness within the supply chain.
Decisions based on fresh information, processed within 24 hours, and communicated through an automated supplier portal, shortens the communication cycle between receipt of demand signals and rightsizing the supply chain.

Resource and Constraint Management

Finite scheduling algorithms, driven by material availability and executed on a nightly basis, ensures that labor and machine time allocation aligns with customer priorities.
Our ERP Throughput module communicates material and resource constraints that pose a risk to production schedules within 24 hours of identification, ensuring that projects remain on time.
Capacity utilization analysis, conducted bi-weekly, promotes the proper staffing and allocation of both direct and indirect resources.

Risk Mitigation

Protecting Your Information: We use the latest cybersecurity protocols to securely disseminate technical information throughout the supply chain.
Active Monitoring: Demonstrated expertise monitoring supply chain risks and opportunities for higher complexity, highly engineered products.
High-Risk Supplier Focus: Increased monitoring and management of directed, sole-source suppliers of critical parts.