Routine audits are critical to ensure quality and compliance on products or systems across a network of suppliers and partners. No matter the audit type, it is important to understand the roles within the manufacturing supply chain and to drill down on processes used, especially in the use of contract manufacturing. Every audit is different, but the broader goal is to verify and evaluate what is in place and used by your contract manufacturer. Your audit should identify the strengths and weaknesses of your contract manufacturer. Below you’ll find basic guidance for performing a contract manufacturing audit that will help you achieve quality and compliant manufacturing outcomes. 

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Imagine a world where your business can effectively scale its manufacturing. A world that doesn’t include heavy investment in developing your own infrastructure. Or, inconveniencing functional operations with time-driven activities such as document management. This is, in fact, a reality for businesses that outsource their manufacturing. In fact, since the early 1990s, businesses identified outsourcing as a form of business strategy with an aim to reduce costs. Businesses today still use outsourcing manufacturing to scale quickly and innovate smarter. Businesses outsource many components of manufacturing. Specifically, the areas of their business that cause unnecessary delays or encounter disorganized processes. One of these areas is outsourcing manufacturing document management. Outsourcing manufacturing document management streamlines business processes and results in cost reduction.

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As a contract manufacturing company, we help many robotics startups who are struggling to scale their manufacturing. There is usually not one single reason why these startups fail but there are similar shared factors preventing scale and survival. Luckily, failure for robotics startups is not inevitable and is preventable. In this blog, we discuss three common reasons for robotics startups failing to scale.

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From toilet paper to baby formula shortages, the importance of supply chain management is deeply felt following the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyday non-specialty items simply aren’t built to handle demand fluctuations. Generally speaking, supplies like these are restocked continuously and usually handled in the most cost-effective way. Therefore, an effective and efficient supply chain management system was not on the radar for most businesses during this time. Pandemics, epidemics, and even times of war reveal how fragile supply chains are. But it shouldn’t take serious events to trigger prioritizing effective and cost reduction strategies for your supply chain management of finished goods. The manufacturing of specialty supplies for energy, medical devices, robotics, semiconductor, and aerospace industries presents an opportunity now more than ever for more resilient supply chain solutions that generate profits and increase efficiency.

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