Make and move
Consumer Tech
Demand swings, contract manufacturers and returns in one ledger.
Demand swings, contract manufacturers and returns, in one ledger. The hard part is that none of those three live in your building, and the system has to hold a number for each of them anyway.
What usually breaks
Four things, drafted and awaiting review
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A forecast the supply chain cannot follow
Demand moves faster than the plan, and the contract manufacturer is working from the version sent last month.
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Stock you do not hold
Inventory sitting at a CM or a 3PL that the ERP either cannot see or counts twice.
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Returns as a second business
Refurbished and returned units that need their own cost, their own stock state and their own margin, and usually get none of them.
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Channel margin that will not add up
Direct, retail and marketplace selling the same unit at different prices, with rebates settled long after the sale.
How we work
Discovery, design, build, run
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Discovery
We look at what you actually have, and what has to still be true afterwards. There is no meter running on discussion time here. You get as many sessions as it takes to understand what is being built and why.
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Design
Written down before anything is built. Scope, the shape of the solution, and the things we have agreed not to do.
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Build
In the open, against real data, in increments you can look at. Nothing arrives as a surprise at the end.
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Run
Live, then supported. Monitored, maintained, and extended as the business changes.
Engagement
How this gets bought
Four ways
Fixed price, time and materials, retainer, or managed service. There is no minimum engagement size, so a single integration is a real conversation and not a rounding error.
What you are paying for
Senior people on the actual work, not a pyramid with one architect and fifteen juniors. Large firms charge a premium that has more to do with their overhead than with the quality of the delivery. The same work can be done properly for less, and that is the reason this company exists.