Morrow Suss comes with a wide industrial experience providing end-to-end contract manufacturing services with a promise to buyers ensuring reduced capital costs, high quality, fast turn-around times and protection of intellectual property. Morrow Suss combines functional knowledge, best practices, contract negotiation skills, global supply chain knowledge and relationships to achieve highly optimum results - often offering compelling value proposition with early ROI. Our specialists make all the difference in value proposition with domain expertise in Design Engineering, Product Lifecycle, Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Process Planning, Cost Estimation, Value Analysis/Value Engineering, Purchasing, Procurement, Sourcing, Logistics, Freight Forwarding, Program and Project Management, Quality Assurance, and IT Applications. Morrow Suss as a turn-key or a single window sourcing partner, under binding service level and confidentiality agreements, executes a variety of sourcing projects. We cover North-American, European and Asian markets for buyers in businesses including appliances, automobiles, aerospace, automation, healthcare, renewable energy, tools, hardware, construction, heavy engineering, and industrial equipments. We focus on delivering appropriate solutions with sustained value for involvement of buyers at all levels including outsourcing strategy consulting, feasibility (make-or-buy), cost benefit analysis; supplier development, risk assessment, factory audits, and supplier engagement; contract negotiations, contracting, project execution, supply chain liaison, and outsourcing benchmarking; full-lifecycle project management, quality audits and allied logistics support.

Key differentiators

• Unique global delivery capability model with ‘anytime anywhere’ flexibility

• Engagement of fully dedicated account managers and domain experts on signing contracts.

• IP protection and confidentiality with no conflict of interest with any entity.

• Open business models including activity based costing.

• Leverages established partnerships with major contract manufacturers providing first-hand understanding of industry practices and risks.

• Application of IT and best practices across key process areas.

• Low overheads for excellent value and high ROI on overall sourcing.

Manufacturing Services
We cover following manufacturing processes:

Contract Manufacturing Cost Model
Morrow Suss follows various models including, fixed price, unit price and activity-based costing incorporating virtually all production processes and infrastructure costs (including clean-room costs, if any) for low, mid or high volume production.

Delivery support
Morrow Suss delivers worldwide.

Morrow Suss’ extensive supply chain knowledge and network with large and smaller specialized manufacturers in Asia and Europe help address global delivery requirements, export compliances and logistics swiftly and adequately.

Requirement analysis and forward planning by working hand-in-glove with buyers against specific needs and constraints facilitate engagement of best-fit factories for production.

Morrow Suss team makes work plan and execution schedules with desired capacities against needs following a structured process involving experts with on-site factory audits across delivery cycle.

Expert tasks in depth address quality and optimization needs to determine specific equipment and process requirements, potential for material cost savings and value engineering, location preference, short and long-term sourcing strategy and likewise.

Outsourcing strategy and benefits
Outsourcing manufacturing of parts or components, with sub-assembly or assembly including bought-out items, or completely finished products can contribute significantly to buyers’ profitability and render early ROI with limited capital expenditure and product/project management challenges.

The strategic benefits typically start from lower product development costs, faster new product introductions, and desired quality with lower capital investments for infrastructure/assets against changing market demands/volumes. Benefits include overall cost and time savings across different stages of product development life cycle while enabling buyers move up the value chain with more focus and efforts on product sustainability, constant innovation and enhancement of brand equity.

Outsourcing scope
Outsourcing scope for contract manufacturing can ideally be aimed to cover complete product development life-cycle activities including product concept, industrial design, product engineering, tool making, sample testing, certification, mass production and spare part supplies.

A scope enabling turn-key manufacturing contract often enables seamless collaboration between the stakeholders across different processes and helps make swift decisions to execute projects on time and within budgets.

Simplifying Contract Manufacturing
Our teams work at various levels to simplify the process and perform seamlessly in requirements analysis, in-depth factory audits, financial analysis and other supplier risk assessment, long-term contract manufacturing agreement negotiations, favorable pricing, flexibility, product engineering support, excess inventory and counterfeit components risk mitigation, onsite and offshore resource support.

Vendor / Supplier / Outsourcing Due-Diligence
Extensive due diligence of suppliers is a key support from Morrow Suss to buyers’ outsourcing strategy, supplier evaluation and selection. As a standard practice ‘due-diligence’ is conducted with customers of contract manufacturers and their sub-tier suppliers to verify performance and understand improvement needs.

In-depth outsourcing due diligence can be reported with performance indicators and market parameters against suppliers as per buyers’ requirements. The report may include insolvency risk analysis, country/location conditions and end-to-end supply chain risk assessment.