 | Allying our company with suppliers who have vast inventories of
thousands of items in stock which are available for immediate delivery.
They have
locations in the Los Angeles and Phoenix areas with redundant supplies. |
| By allying our company with raw material suppliers who manufacture
corrugated sheet stock for us in as little as two hour lead time. |
| We have created programs with accounts who desire it, in which our sales
representatives automatically visit customers at regular intervals. They
will do this weekly or
even daily if desired, taking an on-site inventory at the customer's location
and making order recommendations to the purchasing agent. For the least amount of effort on the part of the purchasing agent, some of our customers
even provide us with open purchase orders. This enables us to ship products
automatically based on their inventory levels and consumption rates. It
also serves to keep customer inventory levels constant and ensures they
will not run out of product. |
| We have continued to invest in new technologies and develop new methods in
our factory. This allows us to complete more orders per day and allows us to
shorten lead times. We can then produce smaller orders for the same cost
which
reduces minimum order quantities for custom manufactured items. Very
often, we are able to produce new custom items for customers on the day their order is placed. |
| By owning and operating our own fleet of delivery trucks, rather than
using an outside freight carrier, we maintain control over the timing of
customer deliveries. |
| Accounts meeting certain criteria are eligible for a program whereby we
make and hold custom products on our floor for immediate delivery when
required. (This program requires minimum use agreements between us and
the customer, agreed upon by both parties before the program is initiated).
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