Dell bucks the notebook-outsourcing trend
In a year that has seen a lot of changes at Dell, tradition is holding in one key area of the company’s manufacturing strategy: building notebook computers. Dell, of course, rose to prominence by emphasizing a direct sales model and building computers based on actual customer orders, rather than on the expectation of orders and doesn’t plan on changing.
The company does all the final assembly of its laptops at its own facilities in Malaysia and Ireland, said Glenn Neland, senior vice president for procurement at the PC maker. It takes partially assembled systems from its manufacturing partners–the “carcass,” as Neland puts it–and sends them to its own facilities to add the finishing touches, such as the installation of the processor, hard drive, memory and other system components.
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