European Committee for Standardization (CEN)

This global technology provider helped a customer comply with conflict-mineral regulations related to 548 electronic components from 60 companies in the supply chain -- securing a £1 million contract renewal, avoiding a roadblock to future orders and preventing the loss of 2 months’ work by a key employee.

As a leader in electronic manufacturing services, this US-based company streamlined work processes across six departments, reduced turnaround on RFP deliverables from as much as two weeks to 72 hours, enabled customers to plan for product end-of-life issues and achieved strong ROI by enabling one staffer to do the work of five employees.

This provider of location-based technologies ensures compliance with complex EHS regulations as well as avoiding disruptions to its supply chain. Managers instantly find data on thousands of parts each quarter versus manually looking up each one, reducing delivery time of RoHS and REACH documentation from weeks to under 2 days – an 86% increase in efficiency.

One of the world’s premier semiconductor companies increased the number of cross references in its parts database from 100,000 to nearly 2 million. In doing so, the company boosted results of its parts with the lowest searches by 52 percent and helped its customers find alternatives for obsolete parts so they can avoid the need to redesign products.