Why AOS Industries?
AOS Industries, LLC is a professional sourcing company and we specialize in providing traditional manufacturing companies with low cost country sourcing solutions so they can focus on their core competency. We have the experience and knowledge to be successful and we understand customer expectation as well as challenges that companies will encounter in global sourcing as shown below:
Challenge: Low cost country sourcing compromised quality
Solution: We do NOT just give you a part and hope it will work. We understand quality must be designed in the sourcing process and we use onsite quality inspector to validate. We follow strict 1st article inspection process, such as full dimensional report and chemical & mechanical analysis, CPK analysis on critical dimensions, process control map, PPAP as well as other common quality control methods or as specified by customers to ensure parts are delivered to meet customer requirements. We work closely with clients to understand their specific quality needs for the application and we use only those offshore companies who have been doing the same or similar parts and have been exporting to oversea market for years to ensure there is no "guess work" in the parts we provided.
Challenge: Low cost country sourcing hurt my inventory turn
Solution: Due to the lead time on the water, offshore sourcing will increase lead time and add more inventories in the pipeline. Our goal is to provide enough cost saving for companies to compensate financial impact on lower inventory turn. We also provide hybrid logistic solutions with combination of ocean and air shipment with some local warehoused inventories to improve inventory turn as needed.
Challenge: We have paid too much air freight cost in the past for low cost country sourcing parts due to fluctuation in demand and ends up with no saving...Why should I consider offshore sourcing again?
Solution: We understand in many circumstances companies are facing fluctuation of demands and we address that by using local warehousing as a solution.
Challenge: Offshore vendors are slow in response and they don't understand the requirements or speak the language.
Solution: We have years of experience in low cost country sourcing and we provide local support from Chicago and China.
Challenge: We don't know what types of commodities are good "low cost country sourcing" targets and our volume is not high enough.
Solution: We have extensive commodity and manufacturing process knowledge, which enables us to make good sourcing recommendations to customers on which to go overseas and which to stay local. Our relationship with oversea suppliers and our leveraging power also allow us to buy certain commodities at lower volume with competitive price from time to time.
AOS Industries, LLC is a professional sourcing company and we specialize in providing traditional manufacturing companies with low cost country sourcing solutions so they can focus on their core competency. We have the experience and knowledge to be successful and we understand customer expectation as well as challenges that companies will encounter in global sourcing as shown below:
Challenge: Low cost country sourcing compromised quality
Solution: We do NOT just give you a part and hope it will work. We understand quality must be designed in the sourcing process and we use onsite quality inspector to validate. We follow strict 1st article inspection process, such as full dimensional report and chemical & mechanical analysis, CPK analysis on critical dimensions, process control map, PPAP as well as other common quality control methods or as specified by customers to ensure parts are delivered to meet customer requirements. We work closely with clients to understand their specific quality needs for the application and we use only those offshore companies who have been doing the same or similar parts and have been exporting to oversea market for years to ensure there is no "guess work" in the parts we provided.
Challenge: Low cost country sourcing hurt my inventory turn
Solution: Due to the lead time on the water, offshore sourcing will increase lead time and add more inventories in the pipeline. Our goal is to provide enough cost saving for companies to compensate financial impact on lower inventory turn. We also provide hybrid logistic solutions with combination of ocean and air shipment with some local warehoused inventories to improve inventory turn as needed.
Challenge: We have paid too much air freight cost in the past for low cost country sourcing parts due to fluctuation in demand and ends up with no saving...Why should I consider offshore sourcing again?
Solution: We understand in many circumstances companies are facing fluctuation of demands and we address that by using local warehousing as a solution.
Challenge: Offshore vendors are slow in response and they don't understand the requirements or speak the language.
Solution: We have years of experience in low cost country sourcing and we provide local support from Chicago and China.
Challenge: We don't know what types of commodities are good "low cost country sourcing" targets and our volume is not high enough.
Solution: We have extensive commodity and manufacturing process knowledge, which enables us to make good sourcing recommendations to customers on which to go overseas and which to stay local. Our relationship with oversea suppliers and our leveraging power also allow us to buy certain commodities at lower volume with competitive price from time to time.