Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM)

You create unique products that integrate PC technology - appliances, industrial control systems, kiosks, typesetting systems, printing presses, and more. Success requires collaboration with a flexible, reliable, and trusted manufacturing partner. Advantec's customized configuration and quality control systems ensure you receive your integral computer componentry exactly as you need it, when you need it.

The Advantec Advantage:

Cost-effective, turnkey solutions
- Save time and cost by leveraging Advantec's contract manufacturing and custom design services.
Custom Configurations
- Integrating custom configured systems has always been Advantec's core business. Leverage our expertise and relationships and focus on what you do best. By outsourcing manufacturing process, you reduce overhead in inventory, floor space, and engineering.
Platform Stability
- We lock down your build documents and ensure that every system you receive is identical and fully meets your specifications.
- Advantec proactively monitors manufacturer's roadmaps and manages lead times and inventories to reduce or eliminate your requalification efforts.
- Our close relationships with leading manufacturers allow us to predict end of life, and help you manage successful new technology transition.
- We can take advantage of last buys, and help you smoothly phase in new components.
Custom Packaging
- Advantec can create and deliver common carrier approved packaging specific to your products.
- Design, test, load, and ship in your packaging.
- Branding design and printing.
- Prepackaged literature.
- We can even work with you to custom design an out-of-the-box experience for your customers.

OEM Value Added Case Study

Advantec and U-Haul
International

Advantec creates a data integration solution that allows U-Haul to manage a nation-wide upgrade of more than 5,000 computers in thousands of locations.

Nearly $10m of computers, are designed, built and shipped by Advantec to thousands of stores throughout America, with joint logistics managed with U-Haul through a custom web portal.

OEM Highlights

End-to-end engineering designs

Flexbuilt^TM manufacturing process

Logistics & Supply-chain management services

Advantec Profile

Customized Desktops, Notebooks, Tablets and Servers

Online configurator and e-commerce

Extensive service capabilities and options

20+ years of computer distribution experience

Consistency, Reliable lead times, Web-based configurator, Lots of product options, Ability to integrate customer supplied products, Supply-chain management programs, Expertise in Microsoft products: These are hallmarks of suppliers committed to supporting OEMs with their computing requirements. These are the basis for Proteon's. value in the OEM market space.

It takes more than a desire to sell products to these customers to be successful -- it takes a commitment to meet their needs for longer than the time it takes to write the order. Advantec supports OEM customers with programs and services that outline a long-term commitment:

Consignment inventory
Bonding
Build-to-order (BTO) and Build-to-stock (BTS)
Revision Control
Custom Image Loads

We understand the results our customers expect from us when they outsource their computer manufacturing to us. And we share the same objective to make our engineering and manufacturing capabilities an excellent virtual extension of our customers' operations.

With the Proteon. line of desktops, notebooks, tablets and servers Advantec offers a complete set of customizable computer systems. No need to go to two or three different suppliers for all your computing needs. No need to juggle multiple RMA policies, supplier relationships, concerns about interoperability or look-and-feel. As a Microsoft Gold OEM System Builder we have a proven track record of configuration excellence. Advantec and Proteon. meet your demands, so you can focus on creating solutions for your market.

Overview

U-Haul International wanted to replace more than 5,000 computers installed throughout its North American truck rental shop locations, repair facilities and public storage buildings.

Challenge

U-Haul had needs for several different hardware configurations, as well as eight different software image loads. Each hardware and software version needed to be identifiable externally for ease of installation. U-Haul had concerns about managing the logistics of so many variations in configuration, given its thousands of stores and three distinctly different user groups.

Solution

Advantec crafted a solution that met U-Haul's hardware, software and logistical requirements:

A series of SKUs were established to accommodate the three specific hardware configurations and eight images
Each time U-Haul updated a software image or revised a hardware configuration a new SKU was established, thus allowing tracking of each configuration for service purposes
Advantec created an asset tag program so that installation technicians could identify specific hardware/software configs by reading a label on the outside of the computer chassis
A custom web site was established to allow for administration of all orders, Bills of Material, ship dates, Proofs-of-Delivery, installation schedules, and payments for A/R reconciliation
As many as 80 computers per day shipped to locations throughout America

Benefits

By utilizing the easy-to-use custom web portal Advantec provided, U-Haul International was able to efficiently manage its computer upgrade project. Thousands of locations received custom built PCs from Advantec, on-site installations were simplified through the asset tagging program Advantec created, and all information related to open and shipped orders was shared between Advantec and U-Haul. By choosing Advantec U-Haul was able to focus on its core truck and space rental business and rely on Advantec as their outsourced partner for their IT infrastructure upgrade.