are you serious about making cost reductions in your supply chain?   Use Colmworth's calculator to quantify potential savings with production line ready component kits.   A Quick Calculator for Potential Savings So, let's see how much procuring and kitting your electronic components "in house" is costing you. Calculator Instructions: Move the slider to the amount of lines on your Bill of Materials. You will see how much time and money procuring and kitting your electronic components "in house"…

[Case Study] How a Contract Electronic Manufacturer Increases Sales & Profits   Executive Summary Our client asked Colmworth Electronics to source, procure and kit, production line ready component kits, for a potential new customer. Challenges Our client's reputation had lead to a huge opportunity with a potential new customer placing large orders in a condensed time frame.  Not wanting to increase their head count while growing their revenue, our client instructed Colmworth to provide quotations…

"MAKE YOUR ELECTRONICS COMPANY LEANER"   The Huge Amount of Waste In Your Electronics Company Is Mostly Hidden, This Guide Will Help You See Opportunities For Increasing Profitability. Business is Fun and Profitable, When it's Kept Simple. Find out more about simplifying your electronic component supply and maximise your profitability. "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius.       Enter your name & email in the box below for your free guide. (QR Code…

 SIMPLIFY OUTSOURCING   A beautifully elegant way to simplify your entire operation, removing huge amounts of wasted time and effort in transacting, sourcing, managing, and admin processing, all within a single line order.           

 Vendor managed inventory (VMI) drives businesses forward Learn how with our vmi infographic Colmworth can bring vendor managed inventory to your business to shorten lead times, reduce stock holdings, increase inventory turns and increase cash flow velocity.    

A Simple Overview of What Kitting Is and How Kitting Works   Kitting is the process of preparing components and parts for manufacture. The kit should be kitted in time for the production line to immediately start loading the machines and thereby minimising machine downtime.   The procuring and kitting process is something like this:   Purchasing starts to procure parts and components which the company doesn't have enough stock to complete the order.These parts are booked in and placed on a…

[Outsourced kitting] The Fastest way to streamline   If you are truly working towards being a lean manufacturing company, then why would you be wasting time and resources on sourcing, procuring and kitting electronic components in house? By reading this you are at least moving in the right direction.  Focus more on serving your customers, improving you products and services, while reducing lead times and costs with outsourced component kitting.  Your company and its staff should be concentrating…