Fabless Semiconductor Challenge – Internal Stakeholder Alignment Improvements

The current global situation has caused semiconductor fabless business organizations to be constantly under multiple constraints, such as forecasted customer demand changes, business flexibility needs, cash preservation and uncertain global macro-economic conditions are leading to a laser sharp focus within supporting operations groups to manage the stakeholder expectations within a defined program. Focusing on supporting organization, this paper aims to demonstrate how to integrate the supporting operations organization to manage, address, align and prioritize urgencies across all internal stakeholders. This paper discusses key mechanisms to improve stakeholder alignment within the organization, and specifically addressing alignment, governance of Business Lines (BL) to support the group's strategies, and interfacing with external supplier partners. The application of these mechanisms have shown practical improvements in stakeholder expectations management, thereby resulting in speedier escalation resolutions with reference to wafer capacity, supply continuity and pricing.