Supply Chain

The full chain of people and steps that gets your product from raw materials to your customer's door, manufacturers, suppliers, shipping, warehousing and delivery.

A weak link anywhere in your supply chain, a late factory, a delayed shipment, a customs hold up, becomes your problem the moment a customer is waiting on an order. Understanding it lets you plan around its weak points.

A founder's supply chain is: cotton grower, fabric mill, garment factory, freight forwarder, a warehouse, courier. A two-week delay at the factory pushes every later step back by two weeks too.