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Riportare la produzione in casa o restare sul terzista · Operations · Beginner
For eight years your flagship product has been made by a foreign contract manufacturer: low costs, acceptable quality, but ten-week lead times, growing minimum orders and two supply interruptions in the past eighteen months. Bringing production in-house requires 1.8 million in line and people, a 14-month transition, and at steady state a unit cost 8% higher: in exchange, two-week lead times, direct quality control and the small-batch flexibility the market is starting to demand. The board is split: half sees the investment as a step backward, half as the only path to differentiation. The contractor, suspecting something, has offered a 5% discount for a three-year renewal. How do you build the decision?
Da otto anni il tuo prodotto di punta è fabbricato da un terzista estero: costi bassi, qualità accettabile, ma lead time di dieci settimane, minimi d'ordine crescenti e due interruzioni di fornitura negli ultimi diciotto mesi. Riportare la produzione in casa richiede 1,8 milioni di investimento in linea e persone, 14 mesi di transizione, e a regime un costo unitario superiore dell'8%: in cambio, lead time di due settimane, controllo qualità diretto e la flessibilità sui lotti piccoli che il mercato inizia a chiedere. Il CdA è spaccato: metà vede l'investimento come un ritorno al passato, metà come l'unica via per differenziarsi. Il terzista, che sospetta qualcosa, ha offerto uno sconto del 5% per un rinnovo triennale. Come costruisci la decisione?
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