gembah

Scaling up your manufacturing supply chain is never easy. Finding the right suppliers, the best manufacturing partner can be a minefield. This is where Gembah steps in. Gembah matches companies with manufacturing partners and suppliers to help them scale up quickly.

To find out more, I invited Zack Leonard, one of the founders of Gembah to come on the podcast to talk all about it.

We talked about the genesis of Gembah, some successful use cases, and their future plans.

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• 1:41 - Adding revenue and cutting costs
• 2:49 - The first things to look at when cutting costs
• 4:45 - Finding the pertinent information in order to properly cut costs
• 6:44 - Gauging and negotiating profit margins with suppliers
• 8:17 - Creating a relationship with your suppliers that allows for product innovation
• 9:29 - Methods for figuring out how to innovate products that mesh well with manufacturing costs
• 11:13 - How to locate someone with a specialty for optimizing the manufacturing process
• 13:12 - Typical costs and timeframe to be expected when working with an industrial designer
• 14:16 - $2000 vs $50,000 new product
• 15:44 - Advice for finding and choosing the right suppliers
• 19:00 - How to verify a legitimate factory to work with remotely
• 20:14 - Recommended strategies to verify whether or not your innovation ideas are a good market fit
• 21:46 - Locating trending items on Etsy and Pinterest
• 23:16 - Where are common e-commerce businesses getting their foundational setup wrong?
• 25:44 - Recommended ways to monitor profitability on Amazon
• 28:20 - Hiring independent contractors that scale their pay with the needs of your business
• 31:57 - First thing to do to begin successfully monitoring profitability
• 32:36 - Where to find Zach online

Links/resources
Gembah - https://gembah.com/