When it comes to your products and manufacturing them abroad or away from your business, you may have found that these last few months have thrown shade on your usual processes. It has been difficult to carry on trading yet alone deal with other countries with various threat levels of COVID. So what can you do? It might be time to start thinking about bringing this in house. With that in mind, here are some of the things you might need to think about.
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Find the right place to do it
One of the first things that you might need to think about is finding the right place to ensure that you can manufacture your items. This means a place big enough to o house the tools and recursion line, as well as potentially thinking about keeping storage in the same place and also the logistics and packaging side of things. You may want to try and include the whole thing together so perhaps moving your current business location or finding something close by will allow you to operate the tow premises safely and effectively.
Ensure you have the right tools for the job
The next thing to think about would be to ensure that you have all of the right tools for the job. This means things such as the right machines for the jobs and the elements that support them such as knowing where you can get hold of a triple offset butterfly valve or other parts that are likely to be important. It is the small things that can make a big difference to how you understand and set up this arrangement so make sure that you cover all bases.
Will you need to hire staff and making sure it is covid safe
The likelihood is that you will need to think about hiring staff to help you with this next phase of your business, and the best thing about it is that you may find more people need the help because of recent job losses in light of covid. However, you will need to ensure that the health and safety aspects are covered. Things from social distancing to wearing a face mask as well as the usual risk assessing that will need to be done because of the use of machines etc.
Keeping the logistics and costs down
Finally, it is important for you to keep logistics and costs down. Even though in the one term this will be a cost and saving to your business you need to think about the initial set up fees and also the investment you need to make now. The truth is, in the future you will have ugh more control over this, and wont have your business stopped because of restrictions in other countries again. But initially your business may have also struggled during these last few months, so make sure you spend wisely and look out for where you can make savings now as well. The investment will be worth it.
Let’s hope these tips help you to start manufacturing your own products in the future.
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