Whistler Technology
Best-in-class sourcing practitioners
Optimum vendor reduction savings supports the cost reduction, supplier risk and sustainability agenda by providing clients with best-in-class sourcing practitioners, who have deep category expertise across the direct and indirect portfolio of expenditure.
Intense competition in electronics
Due to Intense competition in electronics, the marketplace is leading to price and margin erosion, which means that organisations must continually look at new and innovative ways to meet these challenges. Our procurement services help our clients to address these requirements.
Embedding outsourcing of components
In such a challenging economic climate, procurement outsourcing is coming of age. Organisations are validating and embedding outsourcing as the key driver to enhancing their profit and cash flow position.
Professionally managed sourcing program
With corporations typically spending up to 50% of sales revenues with external suppliers, a professionally managed sourcing program is an essential component of survival in today’s business environment. Reductions in procurement costs flow directly to the bottom line.
Global parts sourcing and delivery solutions
Whistler provides a global parts sourcing and delivery service for hard to find and obsolete components. Our team of experts are proud of their collective ability to source parts that have eluded others.
When an item is identified as obsolete our specialist team at Whistler will:
- Investigate open markets, prioritising Approved Vendor databases.
- Stock validation using advanced counterfeit avoidance strategies.
- Liaise to see if continued production can be secured.
- Establish if a one-off Life Time Buy is possible.
- Investigate alternative items.
- Help avoid any costly re-designs and re-qualifications.
- Investigate possible After Market sources and component adaptions.
- Talk to our customer and secure manufacturing data enabling reverse engineering.
Whistler Assured Program is free to join
It doesn’t matter whether you are using us Ad-Hoc basis by RFQ, Co-sourced operating as an extension of your internal team or 100% Outsourced as your fully managed procurement solution.
- Customer Portal to keep track of:
- Upload RFQ’s & BoM’s
- View pending RFQ’s and responses
- View open orders
- View invoices
- View shipped orders
- Manage returns
- Free shipping on all orders above £100
- 24 month warranty
- Guaranteed RFQ response time within 24 hours
- Customer flow down management. (Contract Review)
- COMP. (Access to the Component Obsolescence Management Program)
- Pre-agreed sourcing routes
- Fully Traceable only
- Direct Manufacturer, Franchise or Agent only
- Whistler approved vendors and ‘Assured’ Inspection process
- Laboratory testing to enhanced standards
- AS5553/AS6081 - Bespoke e.g. SPOC419
N.B. Chargeable at cost – failed test costs covered by our Assured Program.
Based upon a commitment to place additional orders per annum, the calculated cost for the value added services received as a member of ‘Assured’ has been estimated to be in excess of £15,000 per annum.