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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 business.

   
 
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