Get Your Product Supply Right
We help you manage component and material supply. Together, we can evaluate your detailed needs, do forecasting, supplier qualification, help with importing. There are a thousand details. We are there to make it work.
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.