Connectors
EasIng ThE sTraIn of connEcTor buyIng
Connector buyers ask plenty of questions regarding the support available to them. Director of TTI, John Sandy, reveals which questions aremost often at the forefront of buyers’minds
From new product design, through end of life support, and particularly around procurement and materials management, TTI aims to maintain close relationships with its customers to ensure it understands their needs. Changing market conditions, shifting base material costs, lead time volatility and the constant challenge of forecasting all bring out the best in speciality, authorized distributors like TTI, which is committed to offering its expertise and support to purchasing professional partners.
premier connector suppliers. At TTI we like to say that all inventory is
TTI director suppliermarketing, North America, John Sandy
What is TTI’s commitment to inventory? First and foremost customers are interested in TTI's connector stock profile and how much of it is truly available to sell (ATS), as opposed to committed to customer orders or forecasts. TTI operates a low turn / high service inventory model. Put simply, it is committed to maintaining upward of 70 per cent of all components in stock available to sell. Added to this is an ethos of stocking product families broad and deep, which is why TTI claims to offer a leading inventory position, with a line card of
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not created equal; this describes the company's efforts to stock the slower moving, more customer specific components, as well as the A and B movers offered by everyone. Typically in the connector world C, D and E movers can be over half the part numbers on your BOM and having those components in stock is key to supporting customer needs, from the lowest possible total cost of ownership (TCO) to mitigating the risk of a customer going line down.
What are TTI's supply chain capabilities? When it comes to supply chain solutions, TTI maintains a flexible approach. From simple to sophisticated, it works closely with customers’ purchasing and materials planning departments to align its supply chain and logistics solutions with customers' business and manufacturing objectives. TTI's inventory composition and ability to monitor and adjust to changing demands is designed to provide industry leading supply chain and logistics support and on-time delivery metrics. In uncertain
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