SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY
ROSS VIDEO
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SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY
Ross Video started life in Montreal back in 1974 and soon after established a manufacturing base in Iroquois , Ontario , Canada . As the televisual and media landscape changed , Ross and its procurement space moved with it . “ It ’ s an interesting market . I think part of the reason we ’ re successful and have been able to have this dynamic manufacturing setup here is that we service a quite specific market ,” says Pulcine . “ It ’ s not consumer goods . Scale is a very popular term these days but it is not always the biggest concern when you are making very high-value , application-specific products . We ’ re not selling a billion units , and what we do make is highly variable . Approximately 45 % of our business is essentially driven by printed circuit board assembly ( PCBA ), and we manufacture roughly 300 different PCBAs . There ’ s also a large amount of mechanical assembly and server-based products where melting solder isn ’ t a significant element . In a recent 12-month period we shipped over 2,000 different products on over 7,400 different orders to over 3,500 different end users in 98 different countries . To put
DECEMBER 2018