Your Store Is Growing. Your Supplier Can’t Keep Up. Now What?

Your Store Is Growing. Your Supplier Can’t Keep Up. Now What?
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First month: 50 orders. Second month: 200. Third: 500.

And your supplier? “Sorry, we can’t do that much.”

I Know That Feeling

Scaling is a problem you want to have. Until you have it.

Then you realize that your small supplier, who made great products for you, simply can’t keep up.

Doesn’t have the capacity. Doesn’t have the material. Doesn’t have the time.

And you? You have customers. Who are ordering. Who are waiting.

This Happens Every Day

E-commerce grows fast. Suppliers don’t.

And when you start looking for a new one? You find out that:

• All the good ones are busy
• All the available ones are available for a reason
• Prices are different everywhere
• Quality is questionable

And you don’t have time. Because meanwhile orders keep coming.

What Most People Do (Wrong)

They stay with the same supplier.

And tell them: “Come on, just a bit more. Come on, just a bit more.”

Until they break. Until there are delays. Until customers start leaving negative reviews.

Or they find a new one - quickly, in panic - who turns out to be even worse.

And then? Quality drops. Customers leave. Store dies.

There’s A Better Way

There’s a solution, Without panic:

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