Manufacturing partners

You may have the skills and resources to establish your own manufacturing facilities, however you may need to establish links with a 3rd party manufacturing contractors.

You will need to consider the economies of manufacturing scale depending on your target manufacturing cost and market price pressures. Some areas which you will have to consider when choosing a manufacturing partner are :

• Physical logistics of dealing with a manufacturer and where they are located. This will        affect the likely development costs if extensive travel is required.
• Potential language barriers and cultural differences
• Skills employed by manufacturer
• Capacity available at factory (engineers, production staff and resources)
• Quality controls maintained by factory
• Labour costs and margin expectations of factory
• Shipping costs and logistic times
• Import duty liability (some products have excessive import duties which will affect landed    cost)
• Environmental impact, ethical policy and fair trade

ideasmatrix can assist with establishing a manufacturing partner in most areas of the world. UK, Europe, Eastern block, Asia and India and other prominent manufacturing areas are known.