Getting started right with your supply
Start with the right decisions. From protecting your IP, finding suppliers and partners you can trust, to figuring out how to import and ship to customers, there is a lot for you to think about. We can help, we are here to make it work. If you are starting up and need support on finding a supplier, defining your requirements or targets. please reach out to us below.
Product Supply in 3 Steps
Setup - What you need
- Product prototype
- Cost & volume targets
- Supplier requirements
- Retail / B2B / Consumer
- Customer experience
Start - What you need
- Final prototype
- Quality requirements
- Supplier choice, terms, costs
- Inventory plan
- Warehouse choice, terms, costs, import registrations
- Total product costs & lead-times
Operate - What you need
- Demand forecast
- Purchase orders
- Production tracking
- Inventory & cash forecast
- Import management
- Warehouse operations
- Customer invoices
Our service - What we do for you, so
you don't have to
Setup
- Find a prototype or engineering development partner, get your prototype created
- Establish volume & cost targets
- Determine key requirements for suppliers
- Find trustworthy suppliers, determine sourcing overseas or local
- Create Requests for Quotation, get costs
- Set up fulfillment model (Retail / B2B / Consumer)
- Identify customer experience needs and supply features like special packaging or ethical/sustainable supply
Start
- Negotiate prices, terms & conditions, and make supplier choices for product, components and tooling
- Get production prototypes made from suppliers, issue sample orders
- Calculate needed inventory and ordering rate, project cash requirements
- Set up import HTS or other classifications, set up import documentation
- Identify warehouse needs, quote and negotiate with warehouse partner
- Set up customer shipment and product marking requirements, especially retailers
- Determine final landed product cost
Operate
- Develop demand forecast and purchase order planning schedule
- Issue purchase orders and verify acknowledgments
- Manage leadtime changes
- Track production & resolve production issues
- Forecast inventory & predict cash flow
- Track & manage imports
- Track warehouse on time pick and pack for customer deliveries
- Issue customer invoices & authorise supplier payments
- Implement desired design changes, identify cost down opportunities
Choose Your Service
Pick a service that best fits your needs. All services will be tailored to your specific project and goals.