SDI solar feeder - case study
... the problem is not resolved. The booking of solar feeder was good, but the production could not deliver the product to customers on time. Delivery of products to customers was slow. In the past six months, delinquent orders were accumulating and SDI had been unable to fulfilled the increasing orders. Some parts of the Solar Feeder were contracted out to other suppliers. SDI was only responsible to assemble the parts. But control on its sub-contractor was bad. A lot of the parts received from these suppliers had quality problems. The parts could not be easily assembled due to a lot of the parts were dimensionally out of tolerance. It took a long time to adjust these out of tolera . . . „X SDI does not have a good purchasing and quality control procedure to control quality of incoming raw materials. SDI needs additional outside investors. The ABA members had grown 300% in the 1990s. The company was unable to sell its products to retailers at a lower...