The Beginning of of Supplier Management Services. Manufacturing outsourcing and international procurement over-drive began with the early setup of International Procurement Offices in Asia in the later 1970s and early 1980s. IBM established its early international procurement offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines to begin with. The IBM IPOs objectives were to identify new suppliers, qualify them, and engage these suppliers their contract manufacturers. The PC technology evolution led to the procurement of many parts, components; sub-assemblies or final assemblies through cheaper sources in overseas locations. Since industrialization in every country goes through phases, new suppliers in Asia presented problems in quality management, production quality, quality standards, process controls, material control, engineering support, quality assurance, quality improvement, production and management improvement. Many newly emerging outsource suppliers required better supplier management. AMREP was selected by IBM to be the primary Supplier Management Service Company in Asia. We enhanced our experiences through IBM and then working for other companies such as SIEMENS, SONY, Bosch, AT&T, and Lucent Technologies in bringing outsourced suppliers into a state of self control in source inspection, process audits, production control, quality audits, and quality systems improvement. Since then suppliers’ skills have improved, quality and production methods changed, technology has changed, and AMREP has moved from simple final inspection to getting to the root causes of suppliers’ manufacturing problems and problems resolution.
To gain more information on AMREP and its involvement with Supplier Management Programs contact Derrick Go at 1 954 4430046 or email questions at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
