For the third consecutive year, CalcuQuote, a provider of software solutions, business process enablement tools, and professional services to the Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry, is exhibiting at the 2018 SMTA Dallas Expo and Tech Forum.With a suite of software for quoting and component pricing for electronic contract manufacturers (ECMs) Read more…
Since we started CalcuQuote, we’ve been doing at least monthly releases packed with new features. Here’s a peek at how our product team continues to “wow” with the speed and efficiency of incorporating customer feedback into new releases: It’s a Sprint, not a marathon CalcuQuote releases are not an abstract Read more…
One of our greatest strengths as a company is our ability to delight customers. On a daily basis, customers go out of their way to pay us a compliment on how pleasantly surprised they are by our customer service. Here’s a peek at the strategy which has enabled our customer support success. Read more…
CalcuQuote, a software company serving the EMS industry, announces today their partnership with Sager Electronics to automate the bill of material (BOM) costing process. This integration with CalcuQuote’s flagship request for quote (RFQ) management system will help contract manufacturers estimate material costs quickly, with accurate pricing and availability information from Read more…
When most people think of increasing profits, they immediately think of either increasing sales volume (“Sell more PCBAs!”) or cutting expenses (“Cancel the company barbecue!”). A far more efficient way of increasing profits is to improve your pricing strategy. Most electronics contract manufacturers (ECM) use a cost-plus pricing strategy to Read more…
It happens to Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) companies all the time. A new customer you’ve chased for a year finally gives you the chance to bid on a job, but the documents they send you with the request for quote (RFQ) look like a flashback from the 1980’s: A bill Read more…
We meet EMS companies every day who tell us about the creative ways they’ve used Excel to organize their business processes. One of the most common ways that EMS companies currently do labor calculations is “through a spreadsheet that has evolved over many, many years.” At CalcuQuote, we believe Excel is one Read more…
The Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) industry is a cost-plus industry. So it is very important that you have an accurate understanding of your cost model to start with. But if you already have an accurate cost model to approximate the cost of making a Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), then the next logical question is, Read more…
In a classic episode of Frasier titled The Innkeepers, Frasier and Niles open a gourmet restaurant. Following a series of catastrophes, each brother unknowingly adds more and more liqueur to the cherries jubilee, which dramatically explodes as the dish is lit. What does this have to do with the Electronics Read more…