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Managing your daily operations while also maintaining a large inventory of on-site class “C” components can be a taxing exercise. In addition to the typical duties that come with managing your site, you’re stuck with what is, essentially, a second full-time job: tracking inventory, reordering and restocking. While these tasks can be delegated to your staff, they still place an undue burden on both your personnel’s time and your company’s bottom line.

Vendor managed inventory can help contract manufacturers streamline their production lines. But how does VMI benefit OEMs? In what ways can vendor managed inventory be advantageous to original equipment manufacturers? In this post, we’d like to look at a number of ways that VMI helps OEMs run more efficiently while simultaneously increasing their profit margins.

Whether you’re a major manufacturer or a new startup, it’s worthwhile to investigate all of your inventory management and stocking options. While it may seem simple and straightforward to manage your own inventory, there are a number of key benefits to be gained by utilizing ASF Components’ vendor managed inventory solutions. From reducing costs to hastening delivery, we’re going to take a closer look at five of the major benefits that you can gain from our warehouse logistics and vendor managed inventory services.

When you’re looking for a class “C” components supplier, there are a lot of variables to consider. Stock levels, product options, customer service and shipping times can all affect your decision. While it may not be a priority for your business that your supplier offer cable ties or bushings, there are certain constant requirements, things that influence every company’s decision-making process. By and large, all of those factors are represented by a single standard: ISO 9001 certification.

At ASF Components, we go to great lengths to ensure that our clients’ class “C” components inventory stays current and stocked. Whether we’re researching the latest in warehouse technologies or we’re investing in new, returnable container programs, we stay on top of industry developments and aim to be ahead of the curve when it comes to providing our clients with vendor managed inventory services.

A dependable supply chain for fasteners and components has to mean more than parts arriving just in time. Without out top-rated quality control from suppliers, a just-in-time delivery that includes defective parts would bring your production to a screeching halt.

ASF Components makes sure that quality failures don’t cause such supply-chain disasters for our customers. The ASF engineering  department and our determination of the quality control capabilities of suppliers assures you that your components not only arrive just in time, but are just right.

Why should you choose ASF components to manage your inventory of low-cost parts that are nevertheless vital to your production schedule?

If a ready supply of these parts is vital, and what part wouldn’t be vital, you need the company that manages the supply chain for these parts to be dependable. Here’s why you can depend on ASF Components as your fastener supplier:

ASF Logistics, LLC, changed its name as of Oct. 1 to ASF Components to broaden the identity of the company’s business activities beyond the traditional logistics segment of wholesale distribution.

Company officials said ASF Components will continue to specialize in developing, implementing, and managing customized supply-chain plans that make companies at the end of that supply chain more productive and lowers their cost of doing business. Despite the name change, the company will continue to operate under its current structure, and existing contracts remain unchanged.