Supply Chain Management

Jabil creates customer and supplier value through innovative supply chain solutions, global support of regional and local commodity needs, meticulous advanced planning and lowest landed cost solutions.

Tangible Customer Benefits

• Individualized customization for each customer’s unique requirements
• Global Price Management and Risk Mitigation
• Leverage Global Materials Spend and Financial Strength
• Supplier Performance Management
• Standardized global supply chain management systems and process with associated IT infrastructure     
• Optimized vertical and virtual supply chain via strategic global supply base
• Continuous Focus on Cost Management

International Procurement Office

Jabil manages commodities, market intelligence and sourcing through a centralized procurement office, which is strategically located in Asia. This provides the advantage of maximum leverage at the optimum point of control, while perpetually driving for efficiency in organizational cost in an ever-evolving complex supply chain. This strategy allows Jabil to continue to manage growth without adding complexity and cost to the overall supply chain, ensuring competitiveness through efficiency and overall ease-of-doing-business with our supply chain partners.

 

 

Electronics Sourcing

Global Commodity Management

Jabil manages its electronics commodity portfolio at the global level. This aggregated global consolidated spend leverage optimizes total cost consideration, supply chain flexibility and drives maximum efficiencies in strategic sourcing decisions.

Industry Knowledge and Expertise

Jabil's technical experts possess strong industry knowledge and commodity management skills. This highly trained team brings value to internal and external customers by staying abreast of current and forecasted market trends. Jabil's impressive suite of E-Commerce tools also allow real time decisions to be made in reaction to any given market dynamics.

Cost Management

Jabil conducts regular and consistent contract reviews to ensure competitive market tension forces are always in play. Jabil also tailors specific commodity approaches and strategies based on market intelligence, customer dynamics and industry served. Jabil's continued commitment to developing deeper more meaningful relationships with suppliers to drive the best cost, coupled with the most efficient supply chain is paramount in the overall strategy for Jabil's Electronics Sourcing team.

Virtual / Vertical Mechanics

Commodity Management & Supplier Development

Jabil provides worldwide commodity management and supplier development for a comprehensive list of targeted commodities, including:

• Metals
• Plastics
• Packaging
• Machining
• Die castings
• Die cut
• Hardware Commodities

Capabilities in this area include quarterly cost reduction negotiations, global contracts and risk mitigation, supplier performance improvement and new supplier identification, qualification and development for the targeted commodities.

Localization / LLC Sourcing

Jabil provides technical and commercial resources in local and low cost markets to source and qualify custom mechanical components and assemblies to meet unique customer requirements and Jabil requirements. A comprehensive offering includes program management, tooling engineering, mechanical engineering and supplier quality engineering.

Jabil Advanced Mechanical Solutions

Jabil’s vertical metal manufacturing capabilities include:

• Large Custom Racks
• Enclosures
• Weldments
• Large Form Factor Machining
• Mechatronic Assembly

Jabil’s industry specialties include Enterprise Racks, Medical Weldments and Mechatronics and Industrial Indoor/ Outdoor Enclosures.

Materials Technology

Jabil's Material Technology Group expands the company's offering significantly by providing industry leading vertical decorative plastics and decorative metal enclosures and peripherals.

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Logistics

Global Transportation Sourcing and Management

Jabil manages a strategic carrier and transportation program to achieve targeted services levels at the lowest costs.   This includes both inbound shipments of materials to our factories and outbound shipments of our customers’ products.  Jabil leverages its knowledgeable in-region logistics teams along with state of the art IT systems to source and manage the performance of its logistics operations.

Trade Compliance

A dedicated team of global and in-region trade compliance experts manage Jabil's globally integrated trade compliance program. This includes the use of IT Trade Compliance tools to automatically screen all business partners, shipments and transactions for imported and exported raw materials, sub-assemblies and finished products. Jabil's trade compliance program includes the management of military technology and dual-use items.

Build-To-Order / Configure-To-Order

Jabil provides shipment distribution services configured to support BTO and CTO manufacturing programs.  Jabil leverages its supply chain design, transportation system and trade compliance programs to provide its customers with an integrated end-to-end offering.

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management Architecture

Supply chain management is no longer a series of buy-sell events between customers and suppliers. Today’s complex global marketplace requires technical capabilities covering all facets of supply chain, administered by experienced, innovative problem solvers. Jabil’s experts deploy utilize these skills and capabilities to develop end-to-end supply chains, allowing optimum velocity while delivering the lowest total cost. By working closely with customers, Jabil deliver industry leading results.  Jabil has been a leader in the development and utilization of automation and the use of this automation allow dynamic, real-time answers to today’s complex supply chain challenges.

Alternate Approved Vendor List (AVL)

Jabil is able to compete in both expanding and contracting markets by perpetually scouting new localized suppliers and staying abreast of the constant changes in global supply chain technology.  It is this activity – combined with the embedded component engineers and commercially savvy commodity managers – that create opportunities for our customers to lower cost, increase flexibility and reduce risk.  In combination, this activity creates value for our leading-edge suppliers.  And Jabil’s market-specific approach and cooperative design and supply chain expertise results in value engineering that creates additional major improvements in both overall product quality and manufacturability.

Value Add / Value Engineering

Jabil has differentiated itself from the rest of the manufacturing service providers by increasing its capabilities in the value added engineering services. Ranging from Joint Research & Design development services on product customization and validation to turn-key solutions, Jabil has become a "one stop shop" with vertical integration capabilities. Together with strategic technology supply partners, creative solutions in both design and supply chain have consistently produced winning product offerings for valued customers.

Systemic Excess and Obsolete Management

Jabil’s single Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution significantly reduces customers’ exposure to the unforeseen costs of excesses and obsolescence.  From quote through the end of product life, each change in demand and corresponding excess and obsolete exposure is identified.  Jabil’s unique business model and centralized toolset allow real time, “What If,” analysis and our systemic approach is focused on rapid exchange of information, focused on elimination rather than reporting. 

Advanced Planning

Jabil's Advanced Planning group is tasked with planning Supply Chain Architecture models tailored to each customer's on-time delivery and working capital goals.

Supply Chain Architecture Models for Planning

Jabil understands that the same planning process won't fit all customers. The Advanced Planning Team listens to customer goals, maps existing processes and uses planning and analytical tools to design a supply chain capable of meeting customer-specific requirements for reliability, responsiveness, agility and cost. Customized solutions are based on three primary Supply Chain Architecture models that Advanced Planning supports:

• Demand-Driven Supply Chain
• Build-to-Forecast
• Build/Configure-to-Order

On-Time Delivery Achievement

Jabil is dedicated to modeling supply chains and planning processes based on each customer's on-time delivery goals to their customer. By applying advanced statistical demand planning models to historical requirements, the Advanced Planning team focuses on engaging in a collaborative Sales and Operational Planning process that uses Jabil proprietary tools to ensure each customer's metric achievement.

Strategic Inventory Placement and Pull System Implementation

The Advanced Planning team within Jabil works with customers on developing strategic inventory plans that place the right inventory, at the right place in the supply chain, at the right moment in time. This is done with an eye to supporting on-time delivery while maximizing working capital and inventory investments. Tailored solutions are developed with suppliers to reduce effective lead times within the supply base, improve flexibility and responsiveness, and focus on total cost of inventory ownership.

Quality

Jabil’s focus on quality encompasses continuous improvement of supplier performance through six sigma methodology, comprehensive supplier assessments and qualifications and stewardship within the supply chain in social and environmental responsibility.

Supplier Performance

Jabil’s assessment of suppliers’ performance focuses on continuous improvement through deployment of Six Sigma methodologies.

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Comprehensive Supplier Audits and Development

Jabil audits suppliers’ capabilities to continuously satisfy requirements and is dedicated to developing suppliers for future challenges and needs.

A number of tools including initial assessments, surveillance assessments, supplier annual business reviews, performance measurement / monitoring / reviews, new product introduction and process audits are employed in this effort.  Outputs are used to identify opportunities for development and continuous improvement.

Qualification

Jabil supports the qualification and development efforts of suppliers in support of Jabil strategies.
Qualification and development activities are focused on:

• Quality System and Policies
• Facilities Management
• Demand Management – Production and Capacity Planning
• Advanced Quality Planning
• Corrective and Preventive Action
• Process Control
• Training
• Purchasing
• Gauge, Test Equipment and Tooling Control
• Non Conforming Material Control
• Document Control
• Environmental Awareness / Management
• Ethics, Social Responsibility

Electronic Industry Code of Conduct (EICC)

Jabil is dedicated to social, environmental and ethical Stewardship within the industry's supply chain utilizing the EICC as a foundation.

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Standardized Global Supply Chain Systems

Jabil's globally integrated supply chain processes, systems and infrastructure enable end-to-end solutions that drive optimal cost and complete supply chain visibility.

Demand & Procurement Management

Jabil has a dedicated team of Customer focused staff that work collaboratively to develop the demand management process and provide rapid demand change analysis for constraints and liability. Jabil also has a trained team of professional buyers that are dedicated to the management of the company's highest value components to ensure we micro manage the most valuable assets appropriately.

Flexibility, SMI, Consignment

Jabil works collaboratively with customers supply chain and procurement teams to ensure maximimum flexibility of the supply chain with procurement contracts that support lean / pull based replenishment. Jabil has a highly developed suite of web and e-commerce tools , allowing suppliers to have rapid visibility to demand fluctuations and respond appropriately.

Contract Alignment

Jabil works with customers to ensure the supply chain design meets customer expectations in contractual terms. This involves analysis of liability through the supply chain to minimize the impact of demand volatility. Jabil has a team of specialists who partner with customers to identify the contract gaps and drive change in the supply chain minimizing the liability to our customers while balancing their flexibility requirements.

Material Pipeline Management

Jabil utilizes a sophisticated suite of analytic tools to identify material and capacity constraints in the supply chain. These tools rapidly analyze multiple schedule or priority changes and provide commitment to customer requested delivery dates and quantities. These tools peg supply chain constraints from individual SKU's or product families to individual resources or components for proactive constraint management and escalation.

Supply Chain Solutions and Business Analytics

Jabil’s Supply Chain Solutions team supports all Supply Chain team functions in architecting, building and supporting processes and tool sets that enable and improve capabilities and efficiencies.  The Business Analytics team provides total landed cost analyses to support footprint and business placement decisions.

Solutions Development

The team is accountable for developing toolsets to identify trends, perform what-if analysis, highlight and prioritize opportunities in planning, sourcing & procurement, logistics, and quality.
The team utilizes two primary processes: a) solutions architecture to identify, prototype and manage supply chain toolsets and b) incubation of the solutions for quick development and deployment of toolsets followed by continuous improvement.  Jabil’s globally integrated supply chain processes, systems and infrastructure enable end-to-end solutions that drive lowest-landed cost and complete supply chain visibility.

Supply Chain Network Design and Optimization

Jabil provides customers with world class supply chain network design and optimization solutions through its proprietary, predictive activity-based simulation and optimization tools and processes.  The solutions comprise total landed costs within desired and real-world operating constraints, inclusive of lead times, service levels and inventory policies.  Solutions include deterministic and stochastic sensitivity analysis of macroeconomic indicators, such as changes in energy costs, currency exchange rates, inflation, transportation and labor rates.

Tool Development

Jabil strives to continuously improve planning and purchasing execution by developing next generation processes and systems, as well as enhancing existing infrastructure tools.