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    Archive for November 8th, 2007

    BOM Intelligence

    Thursday, November 8th, 2007

    One of the challenges that faces OEM buyers of manufacturing services (electronic, pharmaceutical, etc.) is getting the best price from their contract manufacturer (CM). The price from the CM is composed of many different elements including:

    Component or raw material cost (also know as Bill of Materials, BOM, or ingredients)
    Overhead
    Labor
    General & administrative costs
    Margin

    Each of these elements [...]