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Outsourcing lets you focus on your core business and outsource specific elements of your production to established alliances that you KNOW are right for your organization. This gives you lower costs and reduced primary expenses while still maintaining the superior quality you demand and your customers have come to expect.
Seasoned experts have been working together at Ashley Ward, Inc. over a 97 year span. We’ll help you achieve seamless integration with sound business partners that are customized solutions for YOU. This will ensure the highest level of performance using state-of-the-art technology within a structured approach.
Steps to a Sound Outsource Partnership
We’ll take several steps to get you the best custom outsource solution whether it’s Global or Domestic:
• Evaluate history of potential suppliers
• Determine capacity and hold reins of production control
• Develop strong quality control on manufacturing
• Set strict delivery schedules
• Map out shipping arrangements and all logistics
• Deal with customs, insurance, and tariffs/taxes
We at Ashley Ward, Inc. have worked diligently to locate, qualify, and develop outsource partnerships with the most appropriate and reputable Asian suppliers. Working closely with our suppliers, we allow you to take advantage of low-cost labor rates, mitigate the risks of moving work offshore, and secure the highest benefits our value-added business partners can provide. Our goal is to ensure the highest levels of performance.
We will source quality parts for you offshore, but we can also have your parts tooled up in one of our seven machining facilities here in the USA… just in case! We truly take advantage of the global marketplace– here and abroad.
There are opportunities abroad for lower costs on labor-intensive parts and you could probably find that easily, but can you manage the risks? What if you place your order for that big fish you landed and the shipment doesn’t arrive on time or it gets to you, but it’s not to their exacting specifications?
Ashley Ward has partnerships with several high-quality Asian manufacturers. Through these outsource partnerships, we can help our customers navigate these waters and take advantage of low-cost foreign labor. Seamless integration is key so we work closely with the chosen partner in their factory to train them in YOUR processes and technology to achieve excellent quality. We transfer our 97 years of machining knowledge into their operation according to your specifications!
While we run a portion of our customers’ parts in our Asian partner facilities, we also have the same parts tooled up in one or more of our seven U.S. plants to serve as a back-up. So, you have the benefit of low cost and high quality with ZERO risk – we’ve got you covered at home and abroad!
Domestic Outsourcing is an integral part of Ashley Ward’s growth strategy. We are one of the nation’s largest and most experienced producers of precision machined parts and we have successfully integrated work into our facilities previously performed in our customer’s captive machine shops. This home soil outsourcing has always resulted in lower overall costs to our customers. Precision machining not a core competency of yours? Consider partnering with us to take advantage of our strategic vertical integration and see what it can do for your bottom line!
We have been successfully integrating machining and assembly work from our customer’s shops for years. Our large-volume production capacity, expansive vertical integration, and our own cold drawn steel mill make it possible for us to be a domestic outsource partner and produce parts at a lower overall cost than our customer can achieve internally. With everything that goes into the cost of producing precision-machined parts, if machining isn’t your core competency, you may be paying more in total cost.
As an outsource partner we offer full assembly, sub-assembly, logistics, and warehousing services north and south of the border (Reynosa, Mexico). So, your company can enjoy the same benefits that other companies have achieved such as lower inventory levels, lower overhead costs, lower cost of quality, lower equipment and maintenance costs, additional floor space, and increased efficiencies gained by focusing on just your core competencies and letting Ashley Ward handle the rest!
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