St. Onge Company’s Brian Guistwhite was quoted in a recent article for MHI Solutions about scaling supply chains. Brian discussed various methods of distribution in differing supply chain sizes.
As pointed out by Brian Guistwhite, director at MHI member St. Onge Company, “Many recreational vehicles (RVs, boats, motorcycles, quads) are manufactured on a standard base that can be delivered to many sites where final assembly is completed locally and they have considerable sets of options that can be added, removed or exchanged to provide the local consumer with the options that they want.” The magic is in finding a large enough cluster of customers and understanding their preferences to determine whether building a local production facility meets a breakeven point to justify the investment in more local capacity.
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