Boucher will also lead the EMS company's Lean Manufacturing initiatives.
Boucher was head of manufacturing for Celestica in North and South America.
Prior to joining Celestica in March, Boucher was corporate vice president of global supply chain management for MSL, which Celestica acquired. He also worked for Circuit Test Inc. and Digital Equipment Corp.
Revenue from so-called volume high-end servers grew 18.2% and continues to drive the server market. Midrange enterprise server sales declined 10.2%, the third straight quarterly decline. High-end enterprise servers grew 1.9%, the forth consecutive quarter of growth.
"IT spending remained strong overall in the third quarter as customers continued to refresh and expand their IT infrastructures," said Matt Eastwood, program director of global enterprise server solutions at IDC. "Although customers continue to target data center simplification initiatives, investment in strategic IT initiatives - including new workloads - are also growing significantly once again."
IBM retained the top spot worldwide with 31.7% market share, up 6.3%. HP, the shipments leader, was second in revenues (26.8% share), up 2.9%. Sun and Dell were third at 10.2% and 10.1%, respectively. Dell grew 14.1% year-over-year while Sun was flat at 0.1%.
Top 5 OEMs, Worldwide Server Systems Factory Revenue (millions)
McKinsey & Co. said today that although contract assemblers can leverage economies-of-scale and have generated tremendous value for their customers, "they have proved less adept at capturing value for themselves" and further restructuring awaits unless the sector adopts better habits.
In the McKinsey Quarterly, published today, the firm asserted, "Fierce competition, the economic downturn and an outdated pricing model have combined to produce razor-thin or nonexistent margins for most of the industry's top-tier players. The takeaway EMS players must learn to stand up to their powerful OEM customers, just as suppliers in the automotive industry have done. They can no longer afford to offer generous terms simply to fill up their factories.
"A bright future awaits these companies only if
they adopt a small-business mind-set by charging for every service they
provide on the OEMs' behalf and by closely monitoring their pricing and
collection processes," McKinsey wrote.