Supply Chain for Startups: Building Your Business from Zero to Scale

by Jonathan Biddle

Build and scale your supply chain the right way!Creating, launching, and scaling a product is one of the hardest things a person can do. As many entrepreneurs know all too well, creating a great product is only half the battle. You can engineer a brilliant product, design it for manufacturing, and engage millions of interested customers, but if you don’t design your supply chain well, they will never receive it. A great supply chain is as essential to a startup as good design, engineering, and marketing.In this book, you’ll learn how your product's supply chain from the ground upfind and manage suppliersforecast and managed demandplan and manage productionoptimize your transportation costs and networkscale your supply chain efficiently and effectively...and much more!Unlike many books on supply chain, you’ll find targeted supply chain advice for entrepreneurs, not a jargon-filled textbook. You’ll discover the threads that run through the supply chain of every successful startup and how to apply them to your company. This book is your essential guide to building and launching your product and supply chain right the first time.

299 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 30, 2021

Reviews

[Emma Van Sant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely useful and practical resource. well written and researched - recommending it to anyone trying to understand supply chain fundamentals for their startup.