Supplier risk map
26 places
Suppliers by tier, lead time and risk across 4 continents: where we assemble, what we buy and which ports it moves through. Sample data. Invented suppliers.
- Pearl River Assembly Works
Guanlan High-tech Park, Longhua District, Shenzhen, China
Medium · Lead time (days) 21
Main final assembly for phones and tablets: 6 SMT lines and 3 test halls. Handles 40% of unit volume, so a shutdown here is felt in every region within three weeks.
- Songshan Lake Module Works
Songshan Lake High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Dongguan, China
Medium · Lead time (days) 24
Camera and display module assembly feeding Longhua by truck in 90 minutes. Two shifts, with room to add a third.
- Bayan Lepas Assembly
Bayan Lepas Free Industrial Zone, 11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang, Malaysia
Low · Lead time (days) 28
Backup assembly line for the home appliance range, qualified to take 30% of Longhua volume within 8 weeks.
- Binh Duong Appliance Plant
VSIP 1, Thuan An, Binh Duong, Vietnam
Medium · Lead time (days) 30
Small-appliance assembly 30 km from Ho Chi Minh City: kettles, blenders and air fryers. Labor costs are 20% below Shenzhen.
- Sriperumbudur Assembly
Sipcot Industrial Park, Tamil Nadu 631604, India
High · Lead time (days) 35
Serves the India market. High risk: the site sits in a flood-prone basin and lost two weeks of output in the last monsoon, with no second plant for that market.
- Apodaca Nearshore Assembly
PIIT, Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico
Low · Lead time (days) 12
Nearshore assembly for North American orders: 12 days to a US distribution center instead of 45 from Asia. Costs 9% more per unit.
- Alliance Final Assembly
Alliance Texas, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Low · Lead time (days) 5
US final assembly and configure-to-order: packaging, firmware flash and kitting. Ships to US customers in 2 to 5 days.
- Hsinchu Silicon Partners
No. 2, Hsin Ann Rd, East District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan 300
High · Lead time (days) 98
Sole source of the main system chip. High risk: one fab, no qualified second source, and allocation pushes lead time from 14 to 26 weeks when demand spikes.
- Southern Display Systems
No. 22號, Nanke 3rd Rd, Fenghua Village, Xinshi District, Tainan City, Taiwan 744
Medium · Lead time (days) 56
LCD and OLED panels in 5 sizes. A second panel supplier in Korea covers about 60% of demand.
- Godeok Cell Technologies
Godeok Industrial Complex, Pyeongtaek, South Korea
Low · Lead time (days) 42
Lithium-ion cells and battery packs. Dual-sourced with a plant in Poland, so a Korea outage doesn't stop the line.
- Kyoto Capacitor Works
Kyoto Research Park, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Medium · Lead time (days) 63
Ceramic capacitors in tight tolerances. Single source for the high-voltage series, with 10 weeks of safety stock held at Penang.
- Rhein-Main Motor Systems
Industriepark Höchst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Low · Lead time (days) 28
Precision motors and gearboxes for the premium appliance line. Ships by rail and sea; 28 days to Rotterdam-routed customers.
- Kobierzyce Wiring Systems
Kobierzyce Special Economic Zone, Wrocław, Poland
Low · Lead time (days) 18
Cable harnesses and connectors for EU assembly. A European second source that cut freight cost by 14%.
- Shajing Circuit Boards
Shajing Industrial Zone, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, China
Medium · Lead time (days) 20
Multilayer printed circuit boards, 15 minutes from Longhua. Concentrated: with Longhua, Dongguan and Yantian, 4 critical sites sit within 80 km.
- El Salto Electronics Services
El Salto Industrial Corridor, Jalisco, Mexico
Low · Lead time (days) 10
Board assembly and wire harness for the Monterrey plant, 10 days door to door.
- Baotou Magnet Materials
Baotou Rare Earth High-tech Zone, Inner Mongolia, China
High · Lead time (days) 70
Neodymium for every speaker and motor magnet we buy. High risk: single source, one province, and export licences that can change with a month of notice.
- Ganzhou Metals
Ganzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, Jiangxi, China
Medium · Lead time (days) 45
Tungsten and dysprosium for magnets and vibration motors. Shares a rare earth supply chain with Baotou.
- Atacama Copper Cathode
Chuquicamata, Calama, Antofagasta, Chile
Medium · Lead time (days) 50
Copper cathode for wiring and motor windings, priced against the LME. Ships from San Antonio, a 9-week journey to Shenzhen.
- Jurong Island Resins
Jurong Island, Singapore
Low · Lead time (days) 25
ABS and polycarbonate resin for housings. Two other resin plants are qualified, so switching takes about 3 weeks.
- Morowali Nickel Supply
Jl. Rompio, Fatufia, Kec. Bahodopi, Kabupaten Morowali, Sulawesi Tengah 94974, Indonesia
Medium · Lead time (days) 60
Nickel sulfate for the battery cells at Godeok. Power and port capacity here are limited, so delays are common.
- Yantian Port, Shenzhen
Yantian International Container Terminals, Shenzhen, China
High · Lead time (days) 7
About 70% of finished goods leave through this one terminal. High risk: a typhoon or a labor stoppage here stalls every transpacific order, and Hong Kong is the only backup.
- Tuas Port, Singapore
Tuas S Blvd, Singapore
Low · Lead time (days) 5
Transshipment hub for Penang, Binh Duong and Jurong Island cargo heading to Europe. Space is tight in peak season.
- Busan New Port
Busan New Port, Busan, South Korea
Low · Lead time (days) 6
Consolidates Korean and Japanese components. Rail links to the Seoul area take 5 hours.
- Yokohama Daikoku Pier
Daikokufuto, Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0054, Japan
Low · Lead time (days) 6
Capacitors from Kyoto arrive by rail then leave from here. Typhoon season runs August to October.
- Port of Rotterdam, Maasvlakte
Maasvlakte Rotterdam, Netherlands
Medium · Lead time (days) 14
Europe's entry point: 60% of EU stock lands here. Low water on the Rhine slows onward barges in dry summers.
- Port of Long Beach
Pier J, Port of Long Beach, California, USA
Medium · Lead time (days) 10
Main US West Coast entry point. Truck and rail congestion adds 3 to 9 days in peak season. Nearshore Monterrey volume bypasses it.