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Enterprise Labeling: An Imperative for the Electronics Industry
January 7, 2015 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
The electronics industry is characterized by an ever-sprawling set of global supply chains, causing an increase in disparate labeling systems spread across the enterprise with an ever-increasing volume of duplicated label and redundant master data. This begs the question: How effective is labeling in the electronics industry today? Can labeling be more optimized for large corporations with thousands of printers around the world?
The challenges facing organizations dealing with global supply chains include the need to accomplish the following:
- Increase supply chain transparency for speedy product development;
- Centralize and consolidate label printing from one location to thousands of remote printers worldwide;
- Integrate labeling with business applications;
- Reduce the number of label templates with automation;
- Rapidly change labels as customer, geographical, and regulatory requirements evolve;
- Build “configure-to-order” solutions in high volumes;
- Attain higher yields through fewer defects in labels;
- Defend against higher costs by safeguarding against counterfeiting; and
- Reduce manufacturing costs and sustain or improve margins.
That’s more easily said than done. Why? Because among other things, and most obviously, the success of a collaborative and coordinated global supply chain depends upon operating reliably across borders, over distances, in many languages--and all must be in sync with different time zones in compliance with a variety of different local, regional, and national regulatory requirements.
This discussion is targeted toward electronics industry supply chain and logistics professionals tasked with optimizing their company’s partnerships to get more done, in more places, in less time, for the achievement of greater profitability and market share. It speaks to the many components that contribute to partnership optimization and solutions at hand through product labeling and data standards that can lead to supply chain transparency.Read the full article here.Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the December 2014 issue of SMT Magazine.