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In today’s world, the customer is not known for patience. The sooner you are able to deliver goods the happier they will be. If this means over stocking a hard-to-find part, and carrying the overhead, then often that is what a company has to do. Or do they?

One benefit to using a fulfillment assembly warehouse is that you could have quite a lot of kits made up and ready for shipment without losing any time from your own workers; wthout carrying any overhead in your own warehouse.

With our kitting services, Action Electronics can prepare kits and get them ready for shipment, cutting down time between when an order is placed and when it is fulfilled. This is a no-brainer for companies that have products that they will ship in large quantities, or if their shipment includes hard to find parts. 

Outsourcing assembly work through Action Electronics will help increase your efficiency and allow you to ship products when the order is received. To begin streamlining your kitting procedure Contact us.

We may be on our way to another recession, or we have just entered another one, or we are still in the last one; no matter how you say it, times are challenging for businesses. The economy is sluggish. Many companies need to effectively reduce their costs.

Managing costs means managing inventory and managing material overload. You want your inventory when you need to use it, not before, and you certainly don’t want to be searching for components when you have a deadline of tomorrow. The goal at Action Electronics is to procure the necessary materials and produce your product with minimum overhead and maximum efficiency.  With Action Electronics as your supplier your business can save money and time, and maintain quality control by effectively trimming your supplier base. You won’t just trim it; you will cut it down to ONE!

In order to control inventory and bring down the cost of operations, procurement outsourcing is imperative.  As a procurement service provider, Action Electronics works to get the job done with minimal cost and maximum efficiency.

Procurement outsourcing is the process to find and purchase materials and supplies and their contracts, at the best price available. To improve the economy within you business, whether big or small, companies need to work on improving spending, reducing cost for goods and services, and streamlining the source to pay process.

Eliminate the steps in the process that add no value to your product. Action Electronics is a leader in inventory and materials management. We are driven to seek secure, reliable suppliers for you. Contact us.

Action Electronics' dedication to the customer is paramount. This commitment to aligning our process with the needs of each specific customer has resulted in successful custom delivery systems for the most demanding customers.

Cocreative problem solving or "co-creating value" is a facilitated approach to complex problem solving where we the supplier, and you the client, come up with a collectively inspired solution to a logistics, warehousing, inventory or purchasing problem.

Action Electronics’ customer list includes many outstanding companies in the commercial and defense industries. We have developed faster, better, and more accurate delivery systems over the past 20 years supplying electronics commodities.

We look forward to working with your company to identify the unique challenges you face and demonstrate how Action Electronics can streamline your processes and promote your overall success.

Action Electronics can reduce your material acquisition overhead through cost-effective kitting, consolidation of your materials, and reducing your supplier base.

We offer customized delivery and presentation which includes the three steps of kitting: acquisition, grouping, and delivering. Each customer’s particular needs drive the grouping and delivery methods. Components may be presented in bags, hardware trays, large trays, carts, and racks.

KEY BENEFITS OF KITTING

• Reduce material overhead costs
• Reduce inventory and carrying costs
• Reduce procurement costs with competitive pricing
• Lower exposure to excess and obsolete inventory
• Reduce cycle times
• Better response to demand fluctuations
• Reduce supplier base
• Increase manufacturing utilization
• Material yield improvements and reduced material scrap costs

At Action Electronics our primary goal is to add more profit to your company’s bottom line. We accomplish this by implementing effective, value-added kitting and consolidation services that will assist in streamlining your business.

Our award-winning services are priced competitively and include kitting, material management, inventory control, distribution and more. We are proud of our excellent quality control and we work diligently to ensure that you receive the highest level of service. We are pleased to have ISO9001 certification and will continue to expand our global standardization and provide consistency of process to all of our customers. Action Electronics follows established rules and processes for quality control and we expect our suppliers to do the same. This ensures that the components we kit for our customers meet the highest possible standards.

Action Electronics understands that your company has unique requirements and we carefully analyze and respond with services designed to fit your specific needs. Our ability to seamlessly integrate and become part of your manufacturing process makes us your most valued partner.

Purchasing Managers and Operations Officers have an important goal: to procure material and produce their product with minimum overhead and maximum efficiency. It is crucial that they eliminate any steps in the process that do not add value to their product. And, it is equally important to partner with reliable suppliers that are aligned with their processes and mission goals. The impact of choosing the right partner can make or break your bottom line.

Action Electronics can reduce your material acquisition overhead through cost-effective kitting, consolidation of your materials, and reducing your supplier base. We speak your language and part numbering always includes your in-house references as required on all documents, labels, and specifications. Custom package and route labeling insures accurate delivery to the correct production cell, and deliveries are timed to minimize customer ownership of materials.

We offer customized delivery and presentation which includes the three steps of kitting: acquisition, grouping, and delivering. Each customer’s particular needs drive the grouping and delivery methods. Components may be presented in bags, hardware trays, large trays, carts, and racks. Delivery can be common carrier, our truck, or freight carrier. Labeling and racking can be color coded, bar coded, etc.

As an award-winning supplier we have been recognized for our on-time delivery and accuracy. We are proud to be the recipient of high-level performance awards and citations from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. Like us, their requirements are stringent and supplier excellence is crucial to their organization.

Sourcing electronic components can be difficult because of the huge range of products available. As technology advances so does the type of circuitry.

There are many considerations in deciding upon a supplier and there are thousands of fake or copied components. These components may cost less than the originals but they can cause serious problems to the system.

As technology develops and evolves the circuitry used in many electronic systems can be harder to find or are “not a stocked item” and replacements become hard to source.

The importance of replacing damaged or worn circuitry with compatible components of high standards is paramount to the integrity of the product you are manufacturing. Tking shortcuts or buying low grade or copied components can lead to serious system failures.

We understand that bringing your project together requires fast, accurate, competitive sourcing and consolidation of electronics, components, sub-assemblies, mechanical parts and other related materials.

We'll take the heavy lifting out of sourcing the components and then supply material (complete kit) in whatever way is necessary to align with both your material receiving/handling and manufacturing/production processes.

The electronics business is more challenging than ever. Limited resources available to engineers in the form of manpower, tooling, equipment and shortened design time constraints are all contributing factors to this challenge.

Action Electronics has teamed up with ITW Pancon and now has the capacity to recreate an obsolete connector for customers. We are now extremely competitive against AMP and Molex.

In conjunction with our association with ITW Pancon, Action Electronics is positioned to provide you with interconnect products to meet your specific needs. By actively promoting teamwork with customers and suppliers, the men and women of ITW Pancon and Action Electronics are creating competitively superior products, solutions and work environments.

• ITW Pancon is an ISO 9001 supplier of electronic connectivity solutions. The products are manufactured in Bolingbrook, Illinois and Bad Homburg, Germany. The products of ITW Pancon include:
• MAS-CON® - Two-piece Insulation Displacement (IDC) Connectors and Headers
• LAT-CON™ - Lateral Entry Ribbon Cable Connectors and Headers
• HI-CON™ - DIN 41612 Connectors
• I/O Connectors - D-Subminiature Connectors
• Application Tooling
• Switch-con CSF Switch Connector
• Power Tap PCB Power Connector

ITW Pancon is dedicated to developing innovative connectivity solutions by partnering with key customers and distributors.

ITW PANCON can save you time and money by designing and manufacturing custom interconnect products to meet your specific needs. Contact Action Electronics to discuss your particular requirements.

Action Electronics’ signature service is Kitting. “Bringing it all together” means performing supply chain functions after design but before the build, in a more cost-effective manner, saving your company dollars directly to the bottom line.

Action saves their customers time and money. By the customer outsourcing purchasing, receiving, inventorying, kitting (pulling parts, labeling, modifying), bagging and racking, and accounting  the customer pays for only the materials they receive, and they receive them just in time for the build. So there is no materials overhead.

Action Electronics offers other process controlled functions. We can control the modification of component A into component B, rolling up the costs along the way, and saving the customer even more time and money. This works well in conjunction with Kitting where the customer wants the modified component put into the kit.

As far as quality control, Action Electronics is registered to ISO9001-2008, and in the past two audits there have been no findings. We take the quality of our work and our product quite seriously. Check the Quality Assurance page for our certificate and our manual.

Action Electronics will mold ourselves to fit the demands of our manufacturing customer as long as we have the technical capability. Our customers create our menu. We say “How can we line up our process to meet yours so that it becomes seamless?” Our total focus is on completing the job correctly and on time. This is our business philosophy.

Most of our customers lament that they have too many suppliers. A good way to procure your incoming material and reduce overhead, floor space, and cash outlays is to consolidate using Action as your partner.

There are many reasons for your business to explore options. Cutting costs with parts sourcing and materials management is just one of the smart moves you could make in today’s global economy.  Through kitting services, man hours are reduced and quality and service are increased. With materials management programs in place, inventory and warehousing costs are reduced while creating a higher degree of manageability over your supply chain.

So why wouldn’t you choose kitting services and materials management to manage some of your logistics? You need a reliable company with proven services and reputable clients. Action Electronics is that company.  The following are just some of the reasons our clients have chosen us.

• You create the menu- Kitting, Perpetual Supply, Custom Distribution and logistics “We will mold ourselves to fit your needs”
• Award-Winning
• Align our Process to Yours
• Value-Added Process Control
• Effectively trim your supplier base to ONE
• Quality Control ISO9001-2008 Registered
• Deliver Quality, On Time
• Competitive pricing, excellent service
• Reduce Your Costs

Contact Action Electronics today to see how we work with you to develop a system to suit your needs and help you reach your sales goals.