Terms and Conditions for Built-to-Print Jobs

Hi Greg,

You sound like a buyer or procurement professional.

Everything you listed is OK, and more or less. Quite often Engineering Design or Product Management in the OEM establishes what they feel are some of the basic T&Cs.

I guess I would ask each PCB supplier for the kinds of Terms and Conditions that they work towards for their customers and see where it fits with your needs.

YiEng, MA/NY DDave

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I want to be clear. You are talking about buying fully populated cards? And not just bare boards. Approach different CM's and compare contracts. You can pretty much get anything from "build from kit" where all the CM does is assembly, to complete sourcing, box build, and drop ship, where you would just say what to build and where to ship it. Supply chain management is an onerous beastie, so if you have not already slain that beast I would recommend you look for a full service CM. AS for things like ECN's I worked for a CM where at first we didnt' charge but later had like a $50.00 fee, and cost impact of an ECN was studied and the customer signed off before implementation. One fight we had with a customer was over a certain component. After replacing lots under warrenty, we started argueing the fault was not the comps we bought but rather that they were over-specing the part. You won't be able to cover everything under a contract, in the end you will want to find a CM you feel comfortable dealing with.

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