Asia America Corporation
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Transcript of Asia America Corporation
1. High domestic cost structures
2. Unreliable global suppliers, inferior quality
3. High fully-loaded labor costs
4. Seasonal or erratic customer demand
5. High purchasing, sourcing and supplier
management costs
6. Static productivity gains
7. Fear that overseas suppliers won‟t meet your
quality and time requirements
8. Sourcing that isn‟t flexible with demand,
creating higher warehouse, inventory and
personnel costs
As a leading OEM manufacturer services company, Asia America lowers OEM‟s costs for international
sourcing, quality control testing, engineering, kitting, subassembly, supplier management, warehousing
and JIT inventory management.
Asia America:
1. Reduces your cost structure
2. Improves your business efficiencies
3. Offers quality solutions for your manufacturing challenges
4. Uses ISO and TS certified factories
Asia America solves your manufacturing challenges by lowering your costs and improving your
productivity. As a result, you’re more globally competitive. Asia America gives you both the
peace of mind and confidence that you will continue to lower manufacturing costs while
improving productivity and quality.
“I tried overseas
sourcing before and
it didn‟t work.”
Let‟s face it, global sourcing
isn‟t for the naïve or
inexperienced. The best way
to excel in global sourcing is
having 25 years of experience
with a broad cross section of
manufacturing relationships. Asia America‟s team on the
ground in Asia assures you of
high quality sourcing.
“I can‟t afford to make
a mistake. What if it
doesn‟t work?”
Asia America puts its money
where its mouth is. Unlike
brokers, AAC owns your
component inventory until it’s
delivered JIT. They are fully
responsible for its quality and
on-time delivery. With
decades of global sourcing
experience, AAC knows how to
get your high quality parts here
when you need them.
“I don‟t have large
parts volume.”
Most high volume OEM
suppliers set up their own
plants overseas and
frankly, that is the most cost
effective solution for large part
volumes. AAC built its business
sourcing lower volume, highly
engineered industrial
components with varied
demand patterns.
All five major components of this starter are sourced and subassembled by Asia
America for a Fortune 100 domestic manufacturer. Asia America saved this
customer approximately 30% over its former supplier for this assembly.
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To provide their customers with a reliable
source of parts, Asia America owns and
maintains inventory in their facilities, and in
some cases, even consigns inventory at their
customer‟s facility. Shipments are made at
customer defined intervals while meeting
their „just in time‟ needs. Asia America is
accustomed to working with customer
inventory programs – like Kanban.
To ensure all parts meet your stringent
specifications, Asia America built a
complete Quality Control lab. In
addition to the inspections done at
the manufacturing facilities
worldwide, an additional „receiving
inspection procedure‟ is developed
for each incoming part by you and
Asia America. Your detailed
procedures are performed before
any components are stocked for
shipment.
Asia America provides solutions that
improve production line efficiencies
by providing components and
subassemblies to point of use in your
manufacturing facility.
Your kits arrive with parts sequenced
and preassembled for the most
efficient and least complex build.
This reduces material handling
costs, supplier management costs
and improves quality before you
even start production.
A tier-one supplier to a Fortune 500 heavy equipment manufacturer sought a one-stop solution to reduce inventory,
get more product out the door with less labor, decrease material handling and reduce the complexity of their
manufacturing process.
Asia America‟s solution involved the reduction of 70+ parts
into three kits for a model build. The parts were delivered
daily from the Asia America owned inventories. The
customer took title to the inventory when it was consumed.
The kits were built in advance, allowing the assembly facility
to manage spikes in production requirements.
The benefits to the customer were substantial:
1. With Asia America‟s kitting capabilities, the customer
managed just three kits instead of 70+ components.
This increased end of line production by 40%.
2. Material handling was reduced by 85%.
3. The customer‟s inventory ownership decreased by 90%.
The results were amazing - zero defects. The savings to the customer were significant:
1. Production line efficiency improved by over 40% due to the reduced labor needed to build a finished starter.
2. The production cell was consolidated into a smaller area. (The customer no longer needed a tear-down area
for rejects.)
3. The net cost of a starter was reduced by the amount of all the scrapped parts they would have to pay for due
to their less efficient assembly. For remanufactured starters, this helped the customer reduce the amount of
seeding in a starter. The reduction resulted in savings of $110,000 a month on seeding.
4. Asia America now provides 2- and 3-piece kits to the production line and this component has become one of
the most profitable lines for the customer.
The components of this housing assembly were already sourced by Asia
America. During an onsite customer visit, Asia America noticed the customer
had hundreds of rejected starter motors and learned that for years, the
customer had a 40% failure rate on final testing due to air leaks around a
piston and O-ring assembly.
Asia America built a press tool for the piston/O-ring process and offered to
subassemble the components, pressure test, kit and then send to customer.
They are more than a supplier.
They are an innovative, problem-
solver bringing real solutions and
cost savings to the table.
Purchasing Manager
process by providing a seamless
transition for acquiring product
offshore. For any company requiring
an efficient inventory management
solution, Asia America is excellent at
acquiring inventory and shipping on
demand.
Purchasing Manager
In our business, we find Asia
America is a top-shelf resource.A
sia America removes the
complexity of the sourcing
President
Asia America - 21 Years
Former Pres./Co-Founder
Fab-Tech Industries
Former Pres./Co-Founder
JL Fabricators LLC
Leads:
- Asian vendor relations
- Vendor qualification
- Client cost reductions
COO
Asia America - 1 Year
BS, Elec. Eng., MBA
Leads:
- Sales & Marketing
- Engineering
- Operations
- Finance & Accounting
- IT
Operations Manager
Asia America - 8 Years
BS, MS, Accounting
Leads:
- Day-to-day operations
- HR & Management
- Quoting
- Vendor contracting
- Inside sales
- Customer service
Engineering Manager
Asia America - 9 Years
BS, Mech. Engineering
Army 4 years
Leads:
- Quality & Inspections
- RFQ processing
- Product engineering
- Customer vendor
communications
Board Member
Asia America - 1 year
- Former Plant GM,
Ingersoll Rand
- Former President, Crosby
Valve
- Former President, Dover
Industrial Products
Board Member
Asia America - 1 Year
- Former Division President
& 30-year
Executive, Ingersoll Rand
- Former President, CEO
North American Van Lines
- Former President, COO
American Commercial
Barge
Sales Manager
Asia America - 1 Year
Ingersoll Rand, 22 years
Leads:
- Sales initiatives
- Client cost savings
analysis
- Client profit
improvement
Warehouse Manager
Asia America - 12 Years
Leads:
- WH management
- WH direct labor
- Production scheduling
- Shipping scheduling
- Customer logistics
- Inventory management
Founded in 1982, Asia America is a portfolio company of Argosy Private Equity, which invested inover 80 companies, primarily in manufacturing and industrial services industries, over the last 21 years.
Jim Johnson
President
704.641.9098
John HornbergerOperations Manager
John EberlingEngineering Manager
Chris DicksonCOO
Nelson IrvineSales Manager
Jason GoodwinPurchasing Manager
