Dell Recognizes Eight Suppliers in Annual Awards Program; Quality, Service, Cost Among Measures Used to Evaluate Thousands of Suppliers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2003 Eight companies have been recognized for helping Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) further improve its industry-leading supply-chain management and manufacturing capabilities. The eight stood out from among thousands of Dell production and general procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. suppliers evaluated on quality, technology, service, continuity of supply and cost. The Worldwide Procurement Supplier Awards, an annual program in its 10th year, were given in Dell's first quarter, which ended May 2. "Our suppliers play an essential role in helping us provide customers with the quality and value they've they've Contraction of they have. they've have come to expect from Dell," said Marty Garvin Garvin may refer to:
Revenue from a firm's regular activities less costs and expenses and before income deductions. operating profit See operating income. . "These eight set the standard for the thousands of suppliers we do business with every day worldwide." Dell recognized suppliers in eight categories.
-- Platinum Award--Best Overall Production Supplier: Foxconn, a
leading manufacturer of connectors, cable assemblies and
enclosures, primarily for standards-based servers and desktop
computers. Attention to quality and ability to react to Dell
volume fluctuations are among many reasons Foxconn took the
top production award.
-- Gold Award--Second Best Production Supplier: BENQ Corp., a
specialist in electronic multimedia and communications,
including display, storage, imaging wireless and broadband.
Quality, cost leadership and overall support, especially
during Dell's fourth quarter, earned BENQ high praise.
-- Diamond Award--Best Overall Nonproduction Supplier: Service
Zone, a leading provider of technical support, customer
service, add-on sales and customer retention. Service Zone
demonstrated outstanding performance in four key areas: cost,
globalization, flexibility and quality.
-- Emerald Award--Second Best Overall Nonproduction Suppler:
Airborne Express, which ships time-sensitive documents,
letters, small packages and freight for Dell. On a global
scale, Airborne Express continued to build out its
international operations, and effectively reduced unit costs
as Dell's volume continued to grow.
-- Silver Award--Best Overall Production Quality Performance:
Samsung AMLCD Division, which supplies Dell memory components,
liquid-crystal displays, monitors and optical disk drives.
Samsung provided outstanding support and drove for continuous
improvement in all regions.
-- Bronze Award--Most Improved Production Performance: Western
Digital, a storage pioneer that produces reliable,
high-performance hard drives. The company consistently
delivered cost savings and exemplified flexibility by
increasing factory capacity to help Dell meet customer demand.
-- Customer Experience Award--World Wide Technologies (WWT), a
provider of electronic procurement and logistics solutions to
the information technology industry. WWT exceeded Dell's
quality, service and support requirements, and continually
looked for ways to improve business processes and performance.
-- Supplier Diversity Award--Kingston Technology, the world's
largest independent manufacturer of memory products. The
company showed excellent team support in all regions, and
exceeded expectations for on-time delivery and best-in-class
pricing.
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