| dc.description.abstract | Computers, communications and consumer electronics (the
so-called 3C industry) has rapidly become one of the fasted
growing in the world. In recent years，aided by governmental and
industrial promotion，Taiwan’s information electronics industry
has assumed world wide importance as a producer and supplier,
another economic miracle. This has helped to spur on the
development of second tier electronic component producers as
well upper tier raw and unfinished material suppliers. Printed
circuit boards are the most indispensable and important
components within the 3C industry. Their production and
marketing, supply and demand are a good representation of the
flourishing and withering, ups and downs, and technological
standards of the 3C industry.
Printed circuit boards are essential electronic component
and replacement parts. In recent years，to keep up with the
ever-changing manufacturing environment and fierce global
market competition, enterprises have had to improve their
competitiveness, and lower basic production costs as well as
operational risks. They have to continue to progress, to improve,
and learn to utilize different production strategies. Among
these, outsourcing is one of the most common. The current trend
is to take advantage of systematic contract worker management
to stimulate competitiveness. More and more reputable
businesses utilize outside contract workers. A well-considered
organizational structure can strengthen the company’s own
existing professional strength by means of desirable
outsourcing and can even offer it a new lease on life. A
successful model can at the same time improve client
relationships. An enterprise’s limited resources can be
preserved and skills focused on core superiorities，while
outsourcing less important parts of the process to reduce net
costs and risks, bring about more effective management. In future
outsourcing, which has already become an important trend in the
industry, will play an even more major role in the business world.
In this research we focus on a case analysis of one printed
circuit board manufacturer, Company A. We enquire in depth about
this company’s long term cooperation with high standard outside
contract factories, as well analyze and arrange other related
documentation, to find out what are the more significant
indicators for selecting outside contractors. We first, from
macroscopic factors, formulate five important theoretical basic
constructs. These are utilized to inquire into and evaluate the
structural features of a business. These include large economies
of scale, risk management, personnel relations, work type, and
effective structure. Then we use four important microscopic
elements: product quality, production price, service and time
constraints, and tech support and logistic capability, to
evaluate the degree of success at which printed circuit board
producers utilize outsourcing to meet their goals. We hope this
research can give directions for improvement in how such
manufacturers design suitable outsourcing strategies as well
as serve as an example for the Taiwan printed circuit board
manufacturing community, to enter into contracting out
structures, manifest their practicality and effectiveness, and
to act as a reference channel for outsourcing enterprises，or
to strengthen already existing effective management channels.
Although Company A has found outsourcing quite effective,
there are some areas that sill need improvement. For example
contract outsourcing operations can become a mere formality,
established outsourcing strategies can become fossilized and
unresponsive. There have been uncertainties about contract and
net costs. Insufficient importance has been attached to skilled
contract workers, maintaining confidentiality agreements, the
evaluation of effects and strategies, and new product
outsourcing. Worker authentication and quality standards for
outsource concessionaires need to be strengthened (in Eastern
and Southern China areas）whether or not they are already
participating in this plan. These are serious issues which this
company must face up to and ponder over.
We offer five practical and concrete suggestions related to
Company A’s outside contract worker policy: to thoroughly
distinguish and discuss outsourcing policies, to strengthen
the product quality recognition standard of the labor suppliers,
to im a timely manner evaluate and select important technological
skill suppliers, to establish long-term stable collaborative
partnership strategies, to speed up the authentication of
integrated circuit board processes ,so as to promote the economic
scale of contract and labor outsourcing. | en_US |