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In Warehousing and Fulfillment, Cost is King
Read More: In Warehousing and Fulfillment, Cost is KingWhat do warehousing and fulfillment suppliers fundamentally do for their customers? If you explore the web searching for an answer to this question, you’ll find plenty of fancy descriptions, and plenty of confusing verbiage. Terms like 3PL, EDI, Kitting and Packaging services, etc. abound. But what does all that mean? It simply means that warehousing…
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Fulfillment and Warehousing Advantages in the Midwest
Read More: Fulfillment and Warehousing Advantages in the MidwestFour Fulfillment and Warehousing Advantages of the Midwest Fulfillment services and warehousing make more sense in the heartland. The Midwest offers some exceptional service advantages for companies with a national scope that are searching for fulfillment solutions or warehouse operations to serve their customers better. Our firm, located in the Omaha, Nebraska metro area, has experienced…
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Taking Advantage of Contract Manufacturing Resources – Part 2
Read More: Taking Advantage of Contract Manufacturing Resources – Part 2Fixed Costs versus Variable Costs Defining factory costs as fixed or variable (meaning they vary in proportion with production volume) is a useful convention for modeling your cost structure or budgeting. But when examining individual product lines, or, in the extreme, individual products, the model breaks down. At that grainy level, it is important to…
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Wiring Harnesses – What Could Go Wrong?
Read More: Wiring Harnesses – What Could Go Wrong?If you are connecting two points with more than a single wire, you’re constructing a wiring harness. Development of a high quality wiring harness isn’t rocket science, so why do so many harnesses have problems? TEK Services has made a business out of designing and manufacturing professional wire harnesses for our customers. In our experience,…
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Contract Manufacturing – The Big Picture
Read More: Contract Manufacturing – The Big PictureTaking Advantage of Custom and Contract Manufacturing Resources – Part 1, the Big Picture Add value where your firm has unique capabilities, and outsource where you don’t. Most companies have heard this advice. Some have, to a degree, adopted a portion of it. Few, however, have gone far enough to reap the benefits available to…