Manufacturing & Pricing

Thomas Dinges
For the footwear and apparel industry, the moment of reckoning came in the 1990s, when companies including Nike faced damaging revelations over their use of sweatshop manufacturing—an event that led to the creation of the Fair Labor Association (FLA). For the electronics industry, the moment has arrived in the 2010s, as an FLA investigation has revealed serious workers’ issues at contract manufacturer Foxconn, famous for its relationship with Apple Inc.
Market Watch
April 4, 2012
Mobile handsets will continue to be produced in-house for the most part in the future, with no rapid acceleration of outsourcing likely to take place, because manufacturers will...
Market Watch
January 27, 2012
In 2011 the global supply chain was beset by not one, but two, significant natural disasters, altering buying behavior in the critical semiconductor component space during the...
Market Watch
January 26, 2012
Global router shipments are poised to continue robust growth in 2012 after principal buyers of the equipment re-entered the market last year and further left behind the troubled days of...
Press Release
January 26, 2012
Following a year of expansion in 2011, the global electronics contract manufacturing business is expected to decline slightly in 2012, as continuing economic uncertainty in Europe and the United States...
Market Watch
January 25, 2012
The combination of a very strong first half last year together with the continuing economic uncertainty in Europe and the United States will serve to severely constrict growth prospects...
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iSuppli’s manufacturing and pricing research is crucial to contract manufacturers as well as those involved in procurement outsourcing, electronic contract manufacturing,  component pricing, and electronics outsourcing,.

Component Health Watch

  • Collaborative effort by iSuppli application analysts who research component end use and by iSuppli component analysts who focus their investigation on component and raw material supply.
  • Provides analysis on the overall supply environment, considering: supplier health, emerging technologies, raw material issues, component maturities, available and planned capacity,  and current and projected demand.
  • Reports the supplier ability or willingness to accept un-forecasted upsides
  • Affords overall manufacturer lead times for each component reported, with current month lead time given in weeks and the next quarter lead time is presented in graphical format with colored arrows depicting the status of lead time

Component Price Tracker
Component Price Tracker (CPT)™ is an annual service that provides current component pricing and price forecasts across the three major global regions for high-volume, multi-sourced electronic components. The iSuppli Component Price Tracker examines the most representative part descriptions per component group on a monthly basis. It uniquely affords consistent and accurate pricing information by analyzing thousands of global pricing data points.

  • Annual price tracking service for the most-popular, high-volume, multi-sourced electronic components
    • Over 400 components that are representative of over 20,000
    • Most common component package types are represented
  • Current market electronic component prices provided
  • Forecasted electronic component prices afforded
  • Contract and spot pricing analyzed

Are my component costs in line with current and forecasted market pricing?
Can I improve my regional sourcing of components from electronic components manufacturers to take advantage of tactical price swings?
Is there any way suppliers can improve the industry's product mix issues?
What procurement sourcing/supply strategies should vendors and buyers pursue?

Electronic Contract Manufacturing (EMS & ODM)

  • What are the key industrial and business trends shaping this industry? 
  • Which EMS/ODMs are winning and losing? Why? 
  • How is supply chain power shifting among OEMs, EMS providers, ODMs and component manufacturing suppliers?
  • Which product segments are growing? Which segments are contracting?
  • What can financial analysis tell us about the contract manufacturing industry? Are any suppliers at risk of bankruptcy?
  • How is mergers and acquisitions activity impacting the competitive landscape?
  • How is the regional manufacturing footprint changing?