Optimas has been providing integrated supply chain management and engineering support services for over 30 years and the only thing that’s changed is the number of continents where its clients can be found. Optimas works with manufacturers and tier suppliers of all sizes with countless specialties. It prides itself on developing long lasting partnerships that evolve as its customer grows.
An example of one of its long-term partnerships began with Optimas supplying components to a single site, which has since developed into US fortune 500 company with operations in 197 countries and territories around the world making it a truly global service. Sourcing and supplying fasteners and c-class components to manufacturing sites around the world, Optimas Solutions also offers integrated engineering support to ensure the best possible performance across all divisions of the business.
As an integrated supply chain management provider, Optimas’ brief was to find the best components at competitive prices and keep the production line moving with reliable stock management. It was quickly apparent that Optimas could offer an exceptionally high service level and deliver quantifiable benefits in terms of cost savings, efficiency and reliability. Very soon the service rolled out to other sites in the US. 33 years later and Optimas supplies to more than 50 facilities across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
A representative of the customer explains: “Our reliance on the services that Optimas offers has grown from continual, proven success over the last three decades. Finding such a high level of consistent reliability and expertise isn’t common in todays’ market, so it makes good business sense to work with Optimas as partners across each of the divisions of our business – this isn’t something that many of our suppliers have the opportunity to do.”
The key to the consistency of Optimas’ relationship is the flexibility of its available services. The business is built on a foundation of expertise: engineering, logistics, procurement, quality testing, design and manufacturing. This allows it to offer a service that is customised not only to each individual customer, but to each of its customers’ individual sites.
Today Optimas supplies over 11,000 unique parts and 359,000,000 individual components to this one customer worldwide. In 2016 it achieved a quality level of 38 parts per million and maintained a 99% on-time delivery record.
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