So you have raised a bit of capital and want to move beyond prototype to production level. You use ur BoM(Bill of Materials) which lists all components and quantities that go into building your product and these are usually from different suppliers which can create a HUGE headache as you try to manage it. Selling price of products is usuall 2.5-3*BOM. For easier management this is handed out to a contract manufcturer or your original product development co if you had outsourced the prototype development. The initial costs especially of tooling and machinig can be immorally high and its always best to make sure that you do not make any changes when production begins especially any that requires re-tooling as you will be slapped with those costs so get your design right.
Work on developing a relationship with your developers and manufacturers as a lot is dependent on your working rltnshp with them including advancing credit facilities to you and ensuring your product is done on time, within budget and to quality. You will have a ton of conversations with them and a lot of back and forth. Usually takes a factory two months to set up and be ready to run your product but product development can take upto 10months as you try to figure out what your product is, components, costing, designing for manufacturing among a host of othet things that will pop up including testing where some of the components will fail and a replacement will have to be found. If you are running custom firmware in your product the cost of it also needs to be taken into account and a provision for future updates as you iterate and tweak so choose your MCU keenly.
We are far from making our supply chain work predictably and run like clock work so we are also a WIP, because something as simple as a nuts and bolts can mess you up big time.
Stick with cooking mblo
hehe mbona?
Why do you need a supplier if you have a contract manufacturer…is he not supposed to source for the materials on your behalf according to your brief???
He does, but not all of them meet your check list, especially those tooled and machined specifically for you
Good insights. what are you working on mblo
Hio swali huwa inakuwa skipped. Going forward naona kam the resident chef ana fertile imagination.
Have said I run an Eng company, do I ask the specifics of your web ventures @Web Dev
Hiyo detail imetosha. @Web Dev, ionic or reactjs?
kama hawa watu wa Mobius wange hire @Gio ni kusema sasa kenya tungekuwa na Mercedes yetu??
Retired from dev, front end left at angular and scriptaculous. Backend same old LAMP stack. Sasa mambo ni CTR and conversions.
hehe thank.you.for the vote of confidence…One thing I made clear early on, we will never do me too products, if we can’t build better we will not do it
do you want to mentor someone to be independent as well?
Who is the end user of your product???
The customers of the institutions we sell to they use the product for free
mijengo na mahoteli,huwa anatengeneza jiko,wheelbarrows,biogas cookers etc,ndio huwa anateta workers wanakula mikate kama biscuits
si nilikwambia utengeneze quotation ya thufuu na matumbo.watu wangu angalau waone kanyama once a week
:D:D:D:D…wakanyake,niaje??..tiga ngoma!!!
What problem does your product solve/address and how does it fair compared to what your competitor’s???
poa, si umujenge na kumupatia order ya wheelbarrows kadhaa?