Frequently Asked Questions

Your job is to reduce product costs year after year.  By categorizing parts and analyzing spending and cost patterns in a systemic way it becomes easier to identify where you have leverage and which suppliers can help your company achieve its overall strategic goals while achieving your goals of delivering cost savings projects.

To help you build a framework that takes you from sourcing to 'strategic' sourcing.  

Drawings notoriously have unwritten requirements, aren't always updated to match current production, and suppliers regularly ask for deviations that can derail cost savings well after they are booked.  Quotes come back with wildly varying piece and tooling prices and it's not always clear if the lowest bid can or cannot make the parts correctly.  Engineers are too busy to respond in a timely manner to re-sourcing questions.

A consultant can help you reduce the risk of over-promising and under-delivering, especially when starting a new sourcing strategy.

Your company has positioned itself strategically in the market to serve a certain customer base.  It may even be changing its positioning.  Components must meet those expectations at the lowest reasonable total cost of ownership whether they are made, outsourced, or off-shored (direct or through a contract manufacturer).  By working with DV consultants you can ensure your sourcing strategy is aligned with the company's overall strategy for quality, delivery, and price.