Dell and computer monitor suppliers

Founded in 1984, Dell is an electronic computer manufacturer in the United States that distributes personal computers by direct sales, and its business scale has rapidly developed to the current sales level of more than1200 million US dollars. Dell is an enterprise operating in the form of network organization, which is linked with many manufacturers who provide computer hardware and software for it. Some suppliers have good computer screens. First of all, Dell has made great efforts and investment, so that the supplier has only 65,438+0,000 defective products per million products, and after confirming that the supplier has reached the required level through performance evaluation, Dell fully guarantees that their products are directly branded with "Dell" and cancels the acceptance and inventory of the supply. Similar practices also occur in the supply of other outsourced parts from Dell.

Usually, the supplier will deliver the supplied parts to the buyer, and the product assembler will store them in the warehouse for later use after unpacking, touching, repackaging and acceptance. In order to ensure that the supply will not be out of touch, companies often need to reserve various parts that may be needed in the future. This is a general business practice. Therefore, when Dell said to the computer monitor supplier, "We will buy about 4 million to 5 million such monitors in the future, why not just let our people pick them up when needed?" Business people were surprised and even thought Dell was crazy. Dell's management believes that unpacking inspection and spare parts counting are only traditional practices, not necessary steps for modern enterprise operation, so these "redundant" links are cancelled.

Dell's practice is that when the logistics department learns from the electronic database that the company will propose a certain type of computer from its own assembly plant one day, it will send instructions to the supplier on how many display screens to allocate in the morning, so that groups of computers can be packaged and distributed to customers that evening. This can not only save inspection and inventory costs, but also speed up delivery and improve service quality.