Sanmina has emerged as one of the world’s leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) providers with a history of innovation and a proven track record as a high performance, cost-effective Information Technology (IT) and service partner to leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) around the world.

Today, our single IT system spans the entire globe—supporting regional customer requirements.

Our skilled engineers have created and deployed an architecture aligning people, processes, technologies and common standards that support integration and visibility on a global basis.

Sanmina’s IT capabilities provide:

  • World-class flexibility in designing and deploying innovative solutions such as global logistics centers and configure-to-order (CTO) services
  • Consistency and reliability in leveraging our advanced and customer-centric enterprise systems architecture
  • Rapid and robust integration and visibility across a complex global supply chain
Flexibility

Whether you request configure-to-order (CTO), build-to-order (BTO) or direct-ship services, our business-to-business (B2B) integration capabilities enable seamless supply chain integration on a global scale, translating to more cost-effective fulfillment. Our robust systems architecture ensures industry-leading performance, including a proven track record of meeting aggressive turnaround times for CTO and BTO requests.

Consistency and Reliability

Deployment of a single enterprise resource planning (ERP) system efficiently interconnects the global operations that Sanmina has established in our facilities around the world. This consistent platform enables us to manage complex system integrations with equal agility in North America, Asia, Eastern Europe, Brazil, Latin America and India.

Plus, our integrated supply chain and logistics systems allow for worldwide visibility. In fact, common systems facilitate a consistent approach to program deployment and product lifecycle transitions between any of our global manufacturing sites.

With Sanmina as your partner, you can feel confident that a powerful network operates around the clock, ensuring continuity of your global supply chain.

Integration

Sanmina has a powerful array of integration solutions from direct order fulfillment, CTO manufacturing, and vendor-managed inventory programs through to design, engineering and repair.

These complex B2B processes are supported by a full complement of integrated B2B services, including traditional EDI, custom XML, RosettaNet and web-based portal deployment. We support a full suite of international standard transactions, plus many custom transactions created with our supply chain partners. Our extensive experience ensures that Sanmina can quickly implement a comprehensive transaction infrastructure to support your entire supply chain.

Portal

Sanmina’s B2B transaction infrastructure is complemented by a suite of secure portal-based applications that facilitate collaboration on a broad array of critical customer interactions, including design specifications, engineering changes, bills of material (BOM) updates, quality reporting and order/shipping tracking. Our ability to deliver ubiquitous intelligence provides our partners with access to information when and where they need it, ensuring additional value-added solutions from Sanmina.

Visibility and Responsiveness

Our proven capability to deliver highly flexible, global supply chain management provides a key strategic advantage for our customers. Whether the business model is CTO, BTO or direct ship, we provide world-class supply chain management capabilities, including:

  • Global inventory management and optimization
  • Integrated planning and execution
  • Advanced planning and execution analysis
  • Rapid deployment of Clear-to-Release, Clear-to-Build and Planning-Interlock processes
  • A quickturn interlock capability with the supply base through EDI and web-based systems

These capabilities are supported by our ongoing investment in the evaluation and deployment of leading-edge partner solutions, as well as our continued internal development and innovation. With our discipline and expertise, Sanmina delivers a truly world-class supply chain solution.