How Simplifying a Supply Chain Saved a Manufacturer Tens of Thousands Per Year

The Challenge

When new owners inherited a successful medical technology startup, they quickly found themselves tied up coordinating four entirely separate manufacturers.

Lead times were lengthy, product quality was inconsistent, and shipping costs gradually eroded their bottom line.

A disjointed supply chain wasn’t the end of their struggles: The designs for their medical adhesive product had countless SKUs totaling around 600 different product variations.

Validation and verification turned into an endless process that pinballed between multiple facilities. With so much confusion, project scaling was nearly impossible.

Here's how converting:

• Solved a disjointed process
• Improved the existing design
• Scaled production