India Has Added Itself In The List Of Assemblers of iPhones

Apple is all set to establish the Bengaluru assembly plant of the company. This gives clear indication that India has become a valuable asset for the company. India is the third destination for the final assembly of iPhones, which brings India in their chief list.

There is one assembly facility in Brazil and China has Apple’s assembly units for its bestselling products.

The tech giant, Apple has an intricate supply chain globally. Apart from this, the company outsources the manufacturing of the parts of its various products like iPad, iPhone, iPod and Mac in 28 countries. The company has 766 suppliers in total, out of which 126 are in Japan, 69 in the US and China is holding the major part with 346 suppliers. The company also has one from India in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu. A supplier is a unit of Flextronics, but what they exactly manufacture is out of knowledge.

The part constructed and engineered by these suppliers, gso through the sub-assembly in some locations. After then, in case of iPhone, all the sub-assembled parts are brought together for climax assembly at one of the chief destinations like Brazil and China. China centres take care of the end assemblage of the Apple’s Mac parts

Some parts made by these suppliers are sub-assembled in certain locations. All the sub-assembled units and other parts are brought together for final assembly in either China or Brazil in the case of iPhones. For the Apple Mac, the final assembly happens in China, US, and Ireland -the last of these is Apple’s own facility -and for the iPod, China is the only final assembly location. iOS application development is also becoming a booming market in India.

Taiwan Wistron, who is one of the major suppliers of Apple, mentioned, “An assembly unit does not require big investments,” said Jaipal Singh, market analyst at research firm IDC. He said this has been a strategy that all Chinese handset manufacturers have followed in India over the past couple of years. “Labour in India is cheaper than in China. It makes sense to grow the Indian market by establishing a domestic plant”.

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