Case Study #2: An industrial equipment manufacturer required 1000 assembled circuit boards/month. BOM consisted of 187 parts from 34 different vendors. Components International: • Purchased all parts to the BOM    - Active and passive components    - Bare PC board to customer specification    - LCD display modules • Verified Asian components on site • Assembled all parts to the PC board • Shipped completed boards to customer for test and final assembly • Maintained inventory to meet 1000 boards/month schedule Results of Case Study #2: • Customer compressed procurement activities with 34 vendors into one vendor, one point of control    - Many purchasing and stockroom man-hours saved by consolidation • 23% savings on BOM costs more than covered cost of assembly • Customer expertise required was at the level of one Buyer, one discipline • No burden of receiving parts and correctly re-shipping to different vendors    - No manpower expended expediting multiple deliveries • Reduced possibility of foul-ups • Errors, if any, were transparent • No inventory burden • No cost to customer until boards were delivered Contact CI and see how easy it is to start a pilot program 718-782-2733