Rush Orders in the Just-In-Time Supply-Chain, the telCade Solution

With just-in-time (pdf) supply chains, time and space translates into reduced working capital, improved gross margins, and competitive products. 

How does telCade support emerging products that require rush orders?

What's the Problem

For mature products, the rigid process of JIT supply chains produces reliable, profitable streams. 

For emerging products that compete based on innovation and change, but share the production line with mature products - the cost of change orders, pull-in's, pull-out's, and reworks can be 25% of sales; and drain the resources of the company.

How telCade Addresses the Problem

In the rush to market, mistakes happen. telCade maintains relationships with dozens of PacRim sources. Our relationships are personal. When problems occur, telCade has the local resources to find available labor to solve the problem, without breaking the bank.

For example:

• 30,000 cables needed to be changed following an engineering change. telCade found the affordable outsource with available capacity to solve the problem.
• An engineering change resulted in a rush order for parts to meet the scheduled production slot. telCade found the manufacturing capacity, reduced ship time from six weeks to two, and met the schedule.
• Market changes antiquated millions in a manufacturer's finished goods inventory. telCade supplied the resources to rework the products cost effectively - saving the inventory write-down.

telCade Philosophy

Our customers have depended on telCade for dozens of years. Rather than profiting from our clients' short-term problems, we work as part of the team to solve problems.

Contact us. Add us to your AVL (approved vendor list) and see how telCade solves problems.

telCade's MBE Certification in California

telCade is MBE certified by the California Public Utilities Commission. 

The purpose of the Women- and/or Minority-owned Business Enterprises (WMBE, WBE, & MBE) certification is to encourage, recruit, and utilize businesses owned and operated by women and/or minorities.  Qualified suppliers demonstrate their majority ownership of the company, significant involvement in executive management activities including the primary business operations and control of executive policies and decisions (Eligibility Guidelines).  

The program began in 1989, when the California Public Utilities Commission drafted General Order (GO) 156, calling for the establishment of the Women Minority Business Enterprise Clearinghouse, in order to diversify businesses with contracts with California utilities.  All investor-owned electric, gas, water and telecommunication utility companies with gross annual revenues in excess of $25,000,000, as well as their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, are required to participate in the program, and to develop and implement programs designed to increase the utilization of WMBEs in their procurement activities.

Procurement goals of 5% for women and 15% for minorities were initially established, and later augmented to include a 1.5% goal for disabled veterans. In December 2003 the program was renamed the Utility Supplier Diversity Program, and the Clearinghouse was changed to the Supplier Clearinghouse, and continues to operate as such today.

(telCade's MBE pdf file)

Are you targeting the businesses below? Work with telCade to win the bid.

List of Participating Enterprises for MBE

AT&T Inc (Formarly SBC Communications)	sbcsd@sbc.com
California Water Service Company	(408) 367-8200
California American Water	(626) 614-2536
Citizens Communications/Frontier	(585) 777-8201
Comcast	supplierinfo@cable.comcast.com
Pacific Gas & Electric Company	(800) 776-3677
PacificCorp	(503) 813-7057
Pac-West Telecomm	(209) 926-3615
Park Water Company	(562) 923-0711 EXT.200
Qwest Communications	(303) 707-5572
San Gabriel Water Co.	(626) 448-6183
San Jose Water Company (SJ Water Co.)	(408) 279-7942
Sempra Energy  San Diego Gas & Electric Co. Southern California Gas Co.	(800) 325-5966
Sierra Pacific Power Company	(775) 834-4885
Southern California Edison Company	(800) ASK-4WMB
Golden State Water, a subsidiary of AWR	(909) 394-3600
Southwest Gas Corporation	(702) 876-7348
Sprint Communications Company	(800) 877-5872
Suburban Water Systems (Southwest Water Co)	(626) 543-2590
Surewest Company	(916) 786-1504
Verizon(GTE)/Verizon Wireless	(800) 832-9964
Wild Goose Storage	(530) 846-7350

Jobs at telCade

telCade offers exciting opportunities to people interested in working in a self-paced environment. Our multi-cultural group is entrepreneurial and your innovations and results are encouraged and rewarded.

telCade is an equal opportunities employer.

Please mail to telHR at telCade.com for further information.

Current Openings

Software Developer

The Software Developer will: 

• Analyze requirements and design applications 
  
• Provide accurate estimates and timings to project managers 
  
• Deliver applications using standard web methodologies
• Write accurate documentation and process to meet QA standards. 
  

Skills/Experience: 

• 3+ years commercial development experience in ASP.Net and Javascript
  
• Development experience with Web 2.0 standards
  
• Knowledge of Web Services, ADO.NET, custom control development 
  
• Solid Microsoft SQL Server experience including stored procedures 
• Solid analysis & design skills with Microsoft n-tier solutions
  
• Excellent written and verbal English skills 
  

Client Director

Purpose: Develop partnerships with clients

Key Responsibilities 

• Manage the client experience 
  
• Maintain profitability 
• Communicate client requirements to the team, and the team’s requirements to the client 
• Escalate and prioritize client issues and complaints 
  
• Generate new business – with new and existing clients 
  
• Execute sales strategy 
  
• Provide updates on all pricing and contract agreements
  

Required Skills 

• Communication 
  
• Negotiation 
  
• Financial management/pricing 
  
• Networking 
  
• Problem solving 
  
• Project management
  
• Presentation skills 
  
• Business development 
  
• Product knowledge 
  
• Knowledge of web-based tools 

TelCade's China Manufacturing Partners

Here is a sample of the ISO-standard, service pledge from one of the manufacturing partners for Telcade.

  

We believe “Quality products create brand; sincerity wins customers”. Our products have CCC, CE, UL, and PSE safety approvals. All products pass burn-in tests before exporting.

“Our customer’s concerns are our top priority.” We provide high quality products, timely delivery, competitive prices, and personalized services. 

telCade, Your Partner for Responding to Bids

It's a competitive environment. Our partners need quality, price, and experienced delivery to win competitive bidding requirements.

telCade is the savvy, agile, and experienced partner. We realize the advantages and minimize the disadvantages of sourcing from Asia. 

Share your RFP challenges with us. Together, we win.

Contact Us

It's a personal business. Send email to telinfo@telcade.com

Second Source, telCade Duplicates Exactly and On Time

telCade is a minority-owned (MBE certified), Pacific Rim, supply chain management company focused on the consumer electronics (CE), personal computers (PC), medical devices, network, and telecommunications (telco) industries. 

Our factories duplicate products to precise specifications. ;^) You gain a reliable second-source to add capacity when short-term demand grows. 

WHAT CAN WE BUILD FOR YOU?

Contact us.

About telCade

telCade is a minority-owned (MBE certified), Pacific Rim, supply chain management company focused on the consumer electronics (CE SIC 5731), personal computers (PC SIC 3571), medical devices (SIC 3845), network (SIC 3669), and telecommunications (telco SIC 3661) industries.

We maintain long term relationships with dozens of Pacific Rim manufacturers. Our personal services offer time-tested delivery of products through integrated or ala carte services. These services can include:

• product design
  
• one-off component sourcing
  
• kitting
  
• OEM delivery
  
• fulfillment of mission-critical parts
  
• support services for end customers over the Internet
  

We source mission-critical products: cables & wires such as audio-video (e.g. optical, component, HDMI, DVI,) custom coaxial, data networking (e.g. RJ45 CAT5e, CAT6, CAT7,) USB, 1394 Fire Wire, RJ11 phone cables, duplex optical; custom harnesses; electronic components (SIC 3675) such as coils, chokes, inductors, capacitors, resistors, transformers power cables, adapters, supplies, filters; from our offices in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, and Silicon Valley. Our dedicated staff personally monitors every shipment for quality and timeliness.

Trust us with your supply chain sourcing and management problems.

Contact Us

It's a personal business. Send email to telinfo@telcade.com

- Hsiu-Fei Yang, Chairwoman of the Board