A Research To The Strategies To Improve JUC Corporation On Time Delivery Based On Supply Chain Lead Time Compression

Since entering the 21st century, the global communication equipment manufacturers have been facing more and more intense and unpredictable change of macro and micro environment than what they had faced in the past. In today's increasing and heating competition in this industry, whether or not customers' requests could be responded in a timely and effective manner is the key element to retain customers. On Time Delivery performance sometimes plays a key role when JUC Corporation works out her marketing strategies,or it even might impact strategic customers' intension to place purchase orders to JUC Corporation.The majority of JUC Corporation strategic and leading customers are well-known communication network operating organizations located in the Americas, Asia-Pacifics and the Europe. What the communication network operating organizations are fulfilling are systematic engineering projects, such as the construction of equipment stations, computing facilities or the maintenance and technical support activities of an important communication construction project...etc. If JUC Corporation was unable to deliver the devices on time, then the small effects could be delays to customers' R&D or Production or Marketing schedules.However the big impact would be that JUC Corporation will be forced to accept unconditional purchase order cancellations from customers because customers purchasing budgets expired.This would be too much loss for JUC Corporation.This essay is a research to the "High Mix,Low Volume" manufacturing characteristics of JUC Corporation,which is a leading American communication equipment manufacturers in the world. This essay analyses the issues which JUC Corporation and her contract manufacturer encountered on working procedures for sales orders booking and execution, demand forecast execution,and commodity purchases. This essay also lists out various key factors which greatly impact JUC Corporation OTD performance.and proposes practical solutions to those issues.Moreover it is also recommended to launch "Just In Time Purchasing" program for the most headache project in this essay. All these corrective actions aim to maintain and lessen the supply chain lead times so as to improve JUC Corporation OTD performance.The majority of communication equipment manufacturers also has "High Mix,Low Volume" production characteristics and they are suffering from similar issues as well.Therefore this essay could be of any help for other communication equipment manufacturers in the industry.