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TenHz's advantage lies in the benefits
that you can get from TenHz Outsourcing service.
Many entrepreneurs seem thoroughly
understand the benefits of outsourcing. It's true that
outsourcing can save money, but that's not the only (or
even the most important) reason to do it. Now We will
help you to learn how many benefits TenHz wise
outsourcing can provide you.
Control capital costs.
Cost-cutting may not be the only reason to outsource,
but it's certainly a major factor. Outsourcing converts
fixed costs into variable costs, releases capital for
investment elsewhere in your business, and allows you to
avoid large expenditures in the early stages of your
business. TenHz outsourcing service can also make your firm more
attractive to investors, since you're able to pump more
capital directly into revenue-producing activities.
Increase efficiency. Companies
that do everything themselves have much higher research,
development, marketing and distribution expenses, all of
which must be passed on to customers. TenHz's cost structure and economy of scale can give
your firm an important competitive advantage.
Reduce labor costs. Hiring and
training staff for short-term or peripheral projects can
be very expensive, and temporary employees don't always
live up to your expectations. Outsourcing lets you focus
your human resources where you need them most.
Start new projects quickly.
As a
good outsourcing firm, TenHz has the resources to start a
project right away. Handling the same project in house
might involve taking weeks or months to hire the right
people, train them and provide the support they need.
Focus on your core business.
Every business has limited resources, and every manager
has limited time and attention. Outsourcing can help
your business to shift its focus from peripheral
activities toward work that serves the customer, and it
can help managers set their priorities more clearly.
Reduce risk.
Every business
investment carries a certain amount of risk. Markets,
competition, government regulations, financial
conditions and technologies all change very quickly.
TenHz assumes and manages this risk for
you, and we generally are much better at deciding how
to avoid risk in our areas of expertise.
Time-to-Market.
Time is
perhaps the most important factor in the make vs. buy
decision since time-to-market is the ultimate measure of
success. While an in-house component could take months
or years to develop, most suppliers need only a modest
amount of time to customize their products and meet the
customers' requirements. Overall, this means a quicker
turnaround from prototype through production, increasing
productivity and shorter time-to-market. With
standards-based technology and experienced support, the
benefits continue through subsequent product
generations.
Service
Cost.
Another strong argument
for outsourcing is cost. Hardware manufacturers invest a
significant amount of time and money to develop,
implement, test, and support their products. If an OEM
were to expend similar resources to specify, design,
implement, test and maintain each hardware component,
the price of the final application could be too
expensive for its intended market.
Non-proprietary technologies provide
end users with a greater variety of options from a wide
array of suppliers. And third-party support from
software and hardware vendors enables designers to
easily integrate multiple outsourced components into
their applications. Hardware manufacturers also devote a
significant portion of budget to ongoing research and
development. Expertise in their core products, together
with a sense of the direction in which a particular
technology is likely to evolve, put alert manufacturers
on the leading edge.
Because technology changes daily,
keeping products state of the art can mean maintaining
an in-house support group or redirecting key engineers
away from their primary responsibilities so they can
redesign in-house hardware - a potentially costly,
defocusing, and time-consuming venture. Furthermore, if
the individual(s) responsible for all the programming
and integration leave unexpectedly, training new
technical people on in-house designs consumes additional
productivity, time, and money. On the other hand,
manufacturers are fully prepared, experienced, and
motivated to provide upgrades, enhancements, and
on-going support to their clients.
Hardware Cost Reductions.
TenHz has significant experience with hardware product
cost reduction projects. Our design teams will try to
find at least 25% board cost reduction. Our strategy is
to find more cost effective parts, cheaper
semiconductors, better packaging on the board to reduce
layers thereby saving money. We know that in todays fast
paced environment, designers have to stay focused on
developing the next generation products and seldom have
time to cost reduce an existing product. Cost reductions
are not exciting for the designers, all of the fun has
already been had. Cost reductions are seen as boring and
not interesting. However, for the business manager, or
owners of the company cost reductions are very exciting
because the savings flow directly to the bottom line.
Here is an example that shows the importance of cost
reducing a product. A company has a hardware product
that costs $500 and they market this product for $1000.
The current gross margin is 50%. TenHz will find at
least a 25% cost reduction, or a minimum of $125 dollars
in reduced cost. After our team does the cost reduction
the product now costs $375 and the gross margin is
62.5%! The extra $125 dollars flows directly to the
bottom line on every card sale. Cost reductions are
always put on the back burner by the designers.
Designers prefer to develop new cards, not re-design old
ones. TenHz will quickly turn around a cost reduction
and deliver you improved margins on your existing
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