Folks, Regardless of whether it’s in a LCC (Low Cost Country) or right at home, negotiating a manufacturing or supply agreement with a new vendor is always challenging and often painful. When we’re sitting across…
Negotiating Manufacturing Agreements: What Would Ovid Do?
Taking Cost Out Of Your Supply Chain
Folks, Based upon the strong response we received to last month’s blog regarding how to negotiate advantageous and fair manufacturing agreements, this month we’d like to share our thoughts on how best to reliably take…
It Can't Possibly Take That Long...
Folks, When we’re launching into a new manufacturing launch project, our customers will very reasonably ask “How long will it take to get products that we can ship”? We review the 2D and 3D drawings,…
Has Product Development Gotten Too Quirky?
Folks, Troubling news emerged from the new product development community in New York last week. A well known crowd funding platform (with an unconventional and offbeat name) that brought interesting consumer products to market filed…
There's Safety in (Audit) Numbers!
Folks, We recently re-audited a contract manufacturer located in eastern China for a design/build client. The CM was tapped to fabricate complex formed metal and molded plastic sub-assemblies that were to be shipped to the…