Uplink focuses its energies on penetrating every area critical to growing business at the OEMs in its territory. The following outlines Uplink's primary sales objectives.
Purchasing and Commodity Management
- Update key personnel on engineering development work
- Present quotations and product pricing proposals in a timely manner
- Respond to delivery expedites
- Request target pricing for new products and cost reduction programs
- Actively pursue second source opportunities
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
- Secure component design-in positions through product sampling, technical product presentations, and quick response
- Gain thorough understanding of the customers mechanical packaging requirements and recommend design solutions based on product and application knowledge
- Obtain thorough understanding of customers electrical performance requirements and recommend design solutions based on product and application knowledge
- Identify competitive design-in wins and determine strategies for unseating competition
- Consistently present new products
Component Engineering
- Gain a thorough understanding of customers' product approval requirements
- Coordinate product approvals by fulfilling mechanical, electrical, and environmental requirements
- Identify new business opportunities
Manufacturing Engineering
- Identify customer cost reduction opportunities on existing programs and create strategies for capturing new business
- Recommend product and process solutions to solve manufacturing issues
- Coordinate new designs with key personnel to insure seamless transition to production
Quality Engineering
- Coordinate corrective action and root cause analysis requests between customer and manufacturer
- Rectify all outstanding quality issues