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Ron Keith, Riverwood Solutions CEO, talks about this year's OEM survey
July 8, 2010
Findings from Riverwood's survey where significant year-over-year changes in response patterns suggest a shift in thinking by OEMs.
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Collins Stewart
Survey Says Positive for Tier 1 EMS
July 8, 2010
Supply chain consulting firm Riverwood Solutions draw three main conclusions from the 2010 OEM Survey.
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Evertiq
2010 Ushers in a New Decade in EMS – Part 2
February 23, 2010
Riverwood Solutions CEO Ron Keith completes his 2010 Top 10 predictions for the EMS industry.
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Evertiq
2010 Ushers in a New Decade in EMS
February 5, 2010
Based on his broad exposure to the issues, challenges and trends facing the EMS industry and its OEM customers, Riverwood Solutions CEO Ron Keith offers up thought provoking predictions on what the new decade holds for the EMS industry.
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Evertiq
5Q/5A: CEO of Riverwood Solutions Answers Our EMS Questions
January 26, 2010
Ron Keith comments on the European EMS industry, the value of being an EMS provider vs. an ODM company, the relationship between EMS and OEM companies, and Riverwood’s market opportunity in the industry.
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Sino-Manager
A New Effective Way to Manage Outsourcing
January 7, 2010
This article discusses how companies can take advantage of manufacturing outsourcing in China.
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Evertiq
Supply Chain Constraints - Real and Otherwise
September 24, 2009
Ron Keith, CEO of Riverwood, discusses how "over learning" and poor communications are creating the next major supply chain crisis.
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Evertiq
The Changing EMS Landscape – Part 3
July 13, 2009
Ron Keith, COO of Riverwood, writes that significant change is coming to the EMS landscape: “Some tier one EMS companies have seen their market values decline by more than $10B over time, while some poorly positioned smaller players have fared even worse.”
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Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Supply & Demand Chain Executive Announces Its 2009 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100
June 25, 2009
Riverwood Solutions has been selected for the 2009 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100. “Riverwood Solutions’ HOST model is leveling the playing field by enabling companies of all sizes to globally source product and manage remote supply chains as cost effectively as their giant competitors,” said Andrew K. Reese, editor, Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
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Evertiq
The Changing EMS Landscape – Part 2
June 18, 2009
Ron Keith, COO of Riverwood, writes about how the EMS landscape will change over the next five years: “Will this destruction within the EMS industry prove to be a natural part of Schumpeter’s ‘Creative Destruction’ within the framework of an EMS industry as we know it today, or will the future look completely and unrecognizably different?”
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Global Logistics Supply Chain Strategies
Recession, Other Forces Cause Everyone to Rethink Their Supply Chain Strategies
April 7, 2009
Just as there was a significant move of manufacturing to China after the last recession, there could be a similar, though much smaller, move in the other direction after this recession, says Ron Keith, COO for Riverwood Solutions. “After the last downturn, China was never the wrong answer, but a lot of those decisions were made without really looking at total delivered costs.”
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Electronics Sourcing
Time to Re-evaluate Supply Chain Partnerships
April 2009
Riverwood Solutions reveals its latest OEM survey reflects the impact of the economy on the strategic outsourcing of supply chain professionals around the globe.
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Evertiq
The Changing EMS Landscape
April 6, 2009
Many of the trends impacting EMS providers and OEMs over the past five years will continue, but some brand new trends will clearly emerge, writes Ron Keith, COO of Riverwood.
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Riverwood Solutions CEO selected as 2009 'Pro to know'
March 26, 2009
Riverwood Solutions, the innovator in managed supply chain services, today announced that CEO Matt Ryan has been selected by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine as a 2009 Provider Pro to Know.
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Evertiq
Riverwood Solutions: We Will See Forced Consolidations in the EMS Industry
March 23, 2009
The founders of Riverwood Solutions spend a great deal of time within the EMS-industry and found that there are a few issues in the industry, which are begging for solutions. Read more.
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Global Logistics Supply Chain Strategies
What Worries Electronics Supply Chain Managers
March 18, 2009
Most OEMs understand the potential competitive advantage of their supply chain but are concerned about the viability of key supply chain partners, including both EMS providers and component suppliers. So says a recent survey from Riverwood Solutions. Read more.
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A Decade of EMS - The Capital Markets' Perspective
March 18, 2009
Wow how times have changed for the EMS industry on Wall Street over the past decade. In 1999, Electronic Trends Publications estimated that the size of the global EMS industry was about $58B - by 2007 the industry hit $261B in sales. Read more.
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Evertiq
Riverwood Solutions Proprietary Survey of Global OEMs
March 10, 2009
The survey data show that the majority of OEMs understand the potential competitive advantage of their supply chain but are concerned about the viability of key supply chain partners, including both EMS providers and component suppliers. Read more.
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R.I.P. The Death of Value as a Concept
March 2, 2009
Riverwood Solutions COO Ron Keith discusses how the word “Value” seems to be a dead or dying concept, at least in terms of supply chain management and manufacturing services. So what ever happened to the concept of "Value"? The answer, at least in our world, is deceptively simple: certainty and the power of the almighty purchase order. Read more.
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Manufacturing Market Insider
News, Industry SURVEYS (Article Excerpt)
March 2009
A March survey of senior operations and supply chain professionals found that 50% of their companies plan to move some production to another EMS provider in the next two quarters. Riverwood Solutions, conducted the survey, which covered 75 OEMs ranging from $1 million in annual sales to over $100 billion. Read more.
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Manufacturing Market Insider
A Low-Cost Location Offered by Europe-Based Providers
March 2009
History tells us that it is the largest EMS providers whose presence puts a low-cost manufacturing center on the map. But there is a low-cost location - Tunisia - whose development to date has progressed without any help from the biggest EMS layers. Read more.
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Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Touch Screen Technology Company RPO Taps Supply Chain Design Services
February 10, 2009
Technology company RPO, Inc. has tapped Riverwood Solutions for supply chain design services and to leverage Riverwood's Hybrid Outsourced Services Team (HOST) model, aimed at enabling OEMs to drive a lower total supply chain cost while reducing internal overhead. Read more.
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The Top 10 Reason Why OEM/EMS Relationships Fail - Part 2
February 5, 2009
In part one of this article we discussed the historical development of the EMS industry and how that has contributed to some fairly broad discontentment on the part of both OEMs and EMS providers. All too often the promise of a synergistic, low cost model based on each partner
focusing like a laser on its core competencies has failed to materialize. Read more.
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Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Global Companies Select Riverwood Solutions for Supply Chain Implementation, Management
January 29, 2009
Solutions provider's Hybrid Outsourced Services Team (HOST) model aims to deliver flexible, cost-effective supply chain services and operations optimization. Read more.
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Industry Week
Supply Chain Tips for Weathering the Financial Meltdown
January 26, 2009
As Ron Keith writes in this article for the Industry Week Value-Chain newsletter, in this broadly deflationary environment, inventory is a poison and responsiveness its only antidote. Read more.
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Manufacturing Market Insider
News for Q4 2008 (Article Excerpt)
January 2009
In Q4 2008, three multibillion-dollar global enterprises, all of which are number one in their respective markets, selected Riverwood Solutions for supply chain implementation and management. Riverwood offers the Hybrid Outsourced Services Team model. Read more.
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Global Market Leaders Select Riverwood for Supply Chain Implementation and Management
January 23, 2009
Riverwood Solutions, the innovator in managed supply chain services, announced that three multi-billion dollar global enterprises, all of which are number one in their select markets, engaged Riverwood in the fourth quarter of 2008. In the same quarter, global companies in more than a dozen industries turned to Riverwood for its Hybrid Outsourced Services Team (HOST) model, which enables EMs to drive a lower total supply chain cost while reducing internal overhead. Read more.
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The Top 10 Reason Why OEM/EMS Relationships Fail - Part 1
December 16, 2008
The EMS industry has undergone numerous evolutions and transformations in its more than three decade history. From its roots as an outsourced labor and shared capital equipment model, the industry has undergone various changes. But the real and predictable maturation of the industry truly began with the explosive growth and rampant consolidation of the industry that
occurred in the mid 1990s.Read more.
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The Outsource Group
Interview with Michael Marks
October 23, 2008
In
your personal experience running a massive global enterprise
with a highly responsive supply chain, what would you say
the top two
or three issues to consider are when building a global
supply chain?
Marks: Well the first is obviously what is happening from a cost
perspective, but this changes regularly so clearly you have to
have flexibility in the supply chain. So for example, China,
which has been the simple answer for hardware manufacturing for
at least the last ten years is no longer necessarily the right
answer in every case.
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Interview with Michael Marks
October
20, 2008
Q: EMS Now - With the tremendous inflation in wages, facilities and even the
RMB in China, what impact will this have on the general flow
of manufacturing outsourcing over the next 5 years or so? What
are your thoughts on Vietnam vs. China 5 years out??
Marks: I’m not sure that it’s really going to have that much of an
impact on China. Sure you are starting
to see some product moving back on-shore, or more likely to Mexico
or Malaysia, but really it’s not that much. China still has 300
million people that are underemployed – compare that to Vietnam
with a total population of around 90M and much less developed
infrastructure and supply chains.
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Venture Outsource
Michael Marks in EMS with outsourcing firm Riverwood Solutions
July
17,
2008
Michael Marks,
former CEO with global EMS provider Flextronics, is an advisor
to Riverwood Solutions, a managed services firm started
by three former Flextronics executives.
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