#18. Sourcing & manufacturing: how to build out (or improve) a supply chain for your business or start up

Season 2: 'Product development', Episode 6 A Supply Chain Is A Crucial Component Of Any Business. If You've Developed A Great Product Or Service, How Do You Create A Winning Supply Chain To Bring It To Market? In This Episode Product Experts and Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal How It's Done. Guest Bios: Sven Almenning (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sven-almenning-a8554b20/) is founder and CEO of the Speakeasy Group, a leading Australian hospitality group. (https://speakeasygroup.com.au/) Ross Gales (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossgales/) is Director of Design and Strategy at leading product design agency Pollen. (https://pollen.com.au). Carrie Peters (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriepeters/) is Product Design Principal at product design agency Us Two. (https://www.ustwo.com.au/) Dr Wei Shin Lei (https://www.linkedin.com/in/weishinlai/)and Jason Wolfe are the founders of Acoustic Sheep, the manufacturing company of Sleepphones (https://www.sleepphones.com/). Jessica Sepel (https://www.instagram.com/jshealth/?hl=en) is the founder of JS Health Vitamins (https://jshealthvitamins.com/) What to listen out for: 02:01 What happens when supply chain breaks down? Hershey’s Halloween Meltdown 10:30 Carrie Peters: Why it is important to bring your manufacturers early in the ideation stage? 14:04 How Speakeasy Group makes the supply chain sourcing more collaborative 22:47 “Customers go once for the novelty, they return for quality.” 29:15 Why Dr. Wei Shin Lai of SleepPhones talk to their manufacturers weekly 34:18 Tech startups should make the right decisions early on - Ross Gales 39:36 Entrepreneurs should carefully choose where they want to put their time and effort 40:42 Buy Now Pay Later Digital Marketing offer from our sponsor 44:43 NERD UNDER PRESSURE - regular segment Resources and links: Herhsey's supply chain fail https://www.cio.com/article/2440386/supply-chain---hershey-s-bittersweet-lesson.html ***** Enjoyed this podcast? >>>> Please SHARE via text or social media ((!)) Get in touch with us here: https://nerdsofbusiness.com/contact/ You can follow Nerds of Business on socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/business_nerds Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nerdsbusiness/ Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nerds-of-business/