Subcontracting and Partnership Exchanges (SPX), special programs launched by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), are technical information and promotion mechanisms for industrial subcontracting between main contractors and subcontractors aiming at integrating the supply and the demand of both parties to set up a more effective industrial chain.
Since its 20 years practice, the SPX network has covered over 30 countries worldwide. The overall amount for industrial subcontracting and investment developed through a Global Outsourcing Network for Industrial Business Alliances (SPX Club) totaled over $150 billion. According to the statistics from UNIDO, the mainstream demands for international main contractors and buyers are concentrated on the following 6 industrial sectors: machinery, electrical and electronic industries, chemical industries, metal and nonmetal-working industries, plastic and rubber industries as well as textile industries, all of which are included in the SPX services.
The core objective of SPX is to assist international large enterprises in finding competent subcontractors worldwide to complete the equipment and spare parts processing and manufacturing; to help the main contractors lower the costs of production for developing their core competition; to give assistance to those subcontractors to get more international business opportunities and orders and to upgrade their productivity.
Subsequently, the international practice rules and advanced international industrial chain management system are introduced to facilitate their adjustment in techniques and quality control progress, and for their improvement in management.
Thus, the subcontractors can have the access to the related UN network database, which supplies worldwide information especially on industrial subcontracting and partnership for subcontractors, creating more business opportunities in a global market conducive to standardisation and internationalisation of the enterprises to upgrade their productivity and competition.
