Aaron Alpeter is the Founder and CEO of Izba Consulting. Izba Consulting brings proven startup operator and fortune 500 level expertise to startups on a fractional basis so that founders can be more equity and cash efficient while focusing on other parts of their business. Izba Consulting augments its clients’ teams in both short and long term engagements, providing thought partnership and day-to-day management while building out their internal full-time team as their businesses grow.

Join us as Aaron shares about how you should build your supply chain with 18 month plans, how you should build your supply chain around its bottlenecks to optimize it, and why you should find out the de minimis value for shipping goods in each country when planning your shipments.

Resources:

https://www.izba.co/ - Work with Izba Consulting! 

Actionable Take-aways:

1. Build your supply chain by planning it out in 18 months blocks and design it so that it can provide for what you need in the foreseeable future. Set out a sales and operations plan as well for the same time frame so you know whether you are on track in your sales and production pipeline and this will allow you to plan ahead with your manufacturers, warehouses and logistics companies for the support that you need.

2. Look at the bottleneck in the suppler chain and design your supply chain to make sure that it is built to make sure that the bottleneck does not stop and become a problem. 

3. Find out the de minimis value of each country which is the amount that you can ship without paying any taxes. It may be cheaper to ship your goods in batches below the de minis value as compared to shipping it via containers.