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When potential clients first contact M-TEK, they soon discover that purchasing has a vital role to play. In fact, the M-TEK purchasing team is at the centre of all successful supply chain management.

They form a key component is new and existing client builds, providing a value-added service which encompasses identifying customer's materials needs, cost saving requirements, and choosing a mix of suppliers that can provide the best prices and terms. This process is key to securing competitive pricing while obtaining the best lead times, minimising minimum order quantities and lowering the customer's risk exposure.

The team's expertise is applied from the get-go. M-TEK believes the design stage is the optimum point at which the cost of making a product can be reduced while sill coming in on time and budget.

For this process to be successful requires a collaborative proactive between the design and purchasing teams. At M-TEK, these interdependent activities foster value engineering with a design for purchasing focus enabled by the purchasing team, which can provide a window on new component availability.

This collaborative process also allows the new product development team to set a target cost using information from the purchasing team on the cost, performance, market availability, quality and reliability of the components which may be used. With this in place, purchasing also works to indentify and qualify potential suppliers, who are the invited to participate at an early phase in the sourcing exercise.

An as projects progress, M-TEK's purchasing team can also apply its expertise to challenges further down the line, from managing extended lead times to resolving end of life or obsolete component scenarios. Through careful supply chain management and a belief in unimpeded two-way information flow, M-TEK has been able to build the strong supplier relationships on which its purchasing team depends.

Founded 24 years ago, M-TEK offers a competitive Full Turnkey Electronic Manufacturing Service to multiple industries. M-TEK prides itself on its longstanding relationships with its customer base. M-TEK is IPC-A-610 class 3+, IPC 7711/7721, WHMA-620, ISO 9001-2008 & 14001-2004 approved. M-TEK�s factory offers full manufacturing traceability, electronics design &
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