How To Build Your Own Supply Chain
By Kasey Hall, Director of Marketing for MakeTime
This is the age of making things more efficiently. Consumers want customizable, high quality items on-demand. To do so one must have a lean, mean supply chain machine. In the globalized world of today, we have unbundled supply chains. They crisscross the globe taking advantage of cheap labor in one country and high-tech product development in another. However, a globe-trotting supply chain makes it difficult to react quickly to the ever changing consumer set who want highly customizable, high quality products. This leads to:
Vulnerability. One small hiccup in the supply chain halfway around the world takes time and money to fix.
Increased shipping and storage costs.
Lack of flexibility for product diversification and customization.
So, how do we avoid the shortcomings of our current supply chain system?
You build your own. Create a supply chain that allows you to quickly adapt to changes in the consumer environment by multi-sourcing production to eliminate supply chain hiccups all while taking advantage of the cheapest and fastest ways of making things. Here is how:
Eliminate the complexity and vulnerability of overseas supply chains by dividing your supply chain into smaller, more nimble ones. If one goes down, multi-sourcing allows you to make another supply chain to pick up where the other left off. Manage your risk.
Reduce shipping costs, increase your transparency, and better manage your production by locating your new, nimble supply chains closer to consumers, thus allowing you to adapt quickly and flexibly to consumer demand. Transparency means getting the quality you need. This saves you time, money and hair among other things.
Only buy what you need, when you need it. Using an online marketplace like MakeTime you can instantly but machine time, allowing you to quickly, cheaply and efficiently manufacture your new products at the desired level of customization. This reduces sourcing costs, storage costs, and manufacturing overhead.
Reducing the time, complexity, cost and sourcing of supply chains allows you to focus on what is most important - keeping your customers happy.
Kasey Hall is the Director of Marketing at MakeTime. She fell in love with her first CNC Machine in a basement on the campus of the University of Kentucky, where she was formally trained as an architect and marketer. Follow her tweets @maketimemarket.
For more information about MakeTime please visit our website www.maketime.io or e-mail [email protected].
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