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Consumer Electronics Supply Chain
As a partner to nine of the top 10 high-tech brands recognized by Gartner Research’s annual supply chain awards, ModusLink understands the challenges facing consumer electronics brands. Accelerated product lifecycles, channel differences, and regional and customer variations require a flexible infrastructure that can respond at a competitive cost point in the marketplace. By aligning a reliable consumer electronics supply and service chain with customer needs across multiple channels and geographies, our clients have a strategic advantage. We offer the expertise, experience, systems and infrastructure needed to ensure our clients' success.
Our services include:
Consumer Electronics Supply Chain Management
- Optimized Inbound Component Supply into Manufacturing. With operations located close to key EMS and ODM providers, we streamline sourcing and inbound supply of media, packaging and accessories.
- Supply Chain Optimization. Using network analysis and optimization tools and our global knowledge of labor, materials and logistics markets, we design, execute and improve consumer electronics supply chain operations.
- Warehousing and Multichannel Distribution Operations. We ensure reliable distribution from secure warehouse and fulfillment centers strategically located in 15 countries to distributor, retail, business-to-business and end-user channels.
- Configuration and Postponement. We drive total consumer electronics supply chain cost reductions, increased inventory velocity and improved service levels by postponing final product configuration in response to real-time customer demand.
Aftermarket
- Integrated Returns Management. We receive customer returns, manage exceptions and accelerate triage, repair and recovery processes to improve customer experience and value recovered from returns.
- Repair and Refurbishment Services. Decades of outsourced electronics repair expertise, refined workflow processes, and failure data analysis result in some of the highest repair yields in the industry.
- Spare and Replacement Parts Management. We manage accessories, spares and replacement parts inventory, sourcing parts new, or from authorized secondary markets and harvesting them from returned products.
- Value Recovery. We increase recovery from returned, excess and trade-in products with environmentally responsible solutions, across multiple channels while protecting brand and intellectual property assets.
e-Business and the Customer Experience
- Globally Integrated e-Commerce Infrastructure. We combine multichannel Web, financial services, customer care and fulfillment processes into a modular offering that integrates with existing commerce initiatives to meet channel and geographic expansion needs.
- Customer Contact and Loyalty Programs. Improve the customer experience with high-value customer contact interactions and reliable promotional programs.
- Entitlement Management. Enable more revenue streams by providing additional software and application options to customers.