Anybody from supply chain here? How many folks are we gonna lose? Has anyone heard of the layoff numbers in supply chain?
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Supply chain at the fabs will be fine. They’re needed to keep things running. The bloat is commodity managers who lock in terrible pricing & contracts & let suppliers run rings around them. Complete omnishambles of a relationship between TD & supply chain. Engineering in the most expensive or no longer used materials in the rest of industry into the process.
Foisting massive logistics costs for international sites despite being told for 20 years to work on local suppliers. Doing it now, too little too late.
Shipping materials from east Asia with most of the usable time window of it on the sea.
Some clusterf*ck with them trying to design cost project tracking system by adding stupid features to fit their dysfunctional org structures.
Claiming credit for implementing savings…. Making calls to suppliers is a lot less work than writing up the WPs, qual plans, tool time, capacity lock out, pilot silicon material, engineering, yield analysis etc.
All the cheapest solutions should be engineered in at source between TD & SC for the HVM sites to focus on pumping it out ASAP.
Don’t get me started on hope they assign ROI on the savings they bring the VF. Complete fantasy based on bs MOR values.
50%. Zinser working with Accenture on modernizing supply chain. we are F'd.
@bg this is interesting because just the other day my manager shared an org chart he said was from 4 years ago, has RThakur on it as chief SC Officer (Sturm still in as well). He noted that everyone on it was gone except for Bloss and one other manager.
Huge empire…. and bringing back some of the old hacks I see lol
It is all up to Zinsner because they formally and informally report up to him. In the past he has said supply chain should be 50% less HC than it is today. He has historically talked about benchmarks like Cisco, Broadcom and TSMC being way more efficient than Intel. The thing about supply chain is that they have about 40% of there employees who have been therefor more than 15 years, so there is a lot of human glue to their processes. It will be a tough cut, but they will cut it this year. Sturm built a huge empire that was good for a 70-100 billion company…….not for what it is today.
Like other support groups they are preparing for outsourcing.
They did this a few years ago then hired people back due to fab complaints, but this time it is going to stick.
I'd say that any group which is getting hit by more than 20% is being set up for outsourcing. They need to keep the business running during the transition, and a few people will be kept on to work with and monitor the outsource firms.
30%
20-30%