Supply Chain

At SFO technologies, we have a dynamic supply chain management group that focus on timely procurement and manufacturing of products. Through our continuous interaction and open communications, we define custom solutions to cater to the specific needs of our customers.

Our global customers get benefited by improved visibility into demand fluctuations and materials. Our SCM helps to reduces inventory costs providing significant cost savings to our customers while faster cycle times ensures timely delivery. We provide significant value to customers by     savings in time and money in procurement and manufacturing.

At SFO technologies, we have strong processes in Planning, Sourcing and Logistics that enable us to deliver optimum performance.

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Here are some of our major suppliers:

Agilent AMD AMP ARROW Avnet Eurofarad FE Global Electronics Fisher Electronics Future Electronics Hitachi ITT Cannon Kester Components Kyocera Lambda Electronics Le Champ (Sea) Maxim Nu Horizons Panasonic Siemens Sumitron Texas Instruments   Tyco Vectra International

Planning

Planning is one of the very critical and closely monitored processes at SFO Technologies. The real time information provided by systems help SFO technologies to react to supply demand conditions.

A closely monitored supply chain using effective metrics enable us to be highly efficient, less costly and deliver high value and quality to our customers.

Source the right quantity of materials when it is required from the right suppliers enable SFO Technologies to reduce inventory without compromising supply. The pricing, payment and delivery arrangements with local, regional and global suppliers help us sourcing at the right time thereby reducing risks of high inventory and price escalations.

We continuously improve our relationships with our suppliers and have metrics in place to monitor and improve the relationships. Continuous benchmarking of our services on the basis of the metrics helps us to provide best prices, lead times, inventory and availability to our customers

Long term relationship with carriers and forwarding agencies provide us with the capability of timely movements both in and out. The strategic advantage of the Special Economic Zone provides us the added advantage of timely movements. Relationships with international agencies help us get better prices as well as provide better visibility to our customers about shipments.

In order to achieve effective supply chain partnership with our customers, we focus integration with our customers through B2B solutions. We have complete information about our customers through customer information system that provides information online about customer needs. The in-house IT team has developed customised solutions and tools like Financial Supply Chain, Forward module etc. to provide real time access to information and to identify bottlenecks immediately.

The seamless integration with supplier systems enables us online procurement, visibility to sourcing etc.

An extensive supply chain management process exists to continuously benchmark the performance of suppliers. Through the supplier rating on the basis of performance and supplier selection processes, and with complete visibility into supplier’s processes, we ensure quality and timelines of supplies

At SFO technologies, focussed SCM activities and review provide an accurate assessment of the situation. Customer focussed SCM status meetings, Business performance and assets review meetings ensure that appropriate proactive actions are initiated.