Business-driven digitisation of external manufacturing supply chains

Abstract

In an increasingly complex world of manufacturing where core internal manufacturing and strategic external manufacturing are tightly intertwined on product roadmaps, it is imperative to have a vision around transforming supply network collaboration to be digitised, core transactional systems automated to achieve reliable, fast decision making at all levels. Increasing product complexity with the need to optimise capacity and cost results in a much more complex manufacturing network as compared to the past. Intel business strategy of IDM 2.0 (Integrated Device Manufacturer) is utilising both internal and external manufacturing to optimally serve the surging global demand of semiconductors. In this paper we show how digitisation and automation drive solutions to the challenges which today’s and expected future semiconductor market poses to the external manufacturing supply chain.