How Fabricators and Finishers Can Finish the Job-Fast

摘要

Sheet metal fabricators and custom coaters-so alike in some ways, unlike in others- sometimes clash. Bothjuggle myriad orders of varying quantities and due dates, and both measure success on throughput: the more work they ship during a given period, the more revenue they can expect. But challenges in the business relationship often arise because of how a fabricator's customers now perceive inventory: they don'twanttocarryit. Instead of ordering large lot sizes of 1,000 items, a fabricator's customer now might order 50 at a time, want it delivered yesterday, and expect year-over-year price reductions, too.