It is essential to consider the location of a facility when looking for a manufacturer. While many businesses are choosing to manufacture overseas due to cheaper production and labour costs, more often than not it pays to keep your company based right here in Australia.
Overall, there are many benefits to choosing a manufacturer based in Australia over those found abroad. Below, we discuss six of the main advantages.
1. More Jobs for Australians
Choosing Australia-based manufacturing means creating jobs here at home for Australians. By choosing to manufacture your product in Australia, you are supporting the local and national economy and helping Australian families thrive financially, furthermore stimulating the economy at all levels.
2. Reduced Delivery Costs
In recent years, manufacturing products overseas as a means of saving labour and production costs has become a common practice. However, the costs associated with shipping product and materials around the world have significantly grown, especially in Australia. Choosing to manufacture in Australia will mean saving on inbound and outbound delivery costs. You will also receive a broader range of transportation modes to consider and save further costs. Furthermore, by choosing to work alongside Australian shipping companies, you are eliminating the risk of error, whether it be in the form of language barriers or currency conversion.
Using an Australian delivery service will also reduce unnecessary costs such as shipping insurance, import charges and foreign taxes. Overall, utilising Australian services will lead to less overhead and allow you to maintain lower product prices.
3. Shorter Lead Times
Manufacturing in Australia not only saves you delivery costs but will also save you time during the production of your product. Your product will have less distance to travel to get to your intended distributor and into your consumer’s hands. In today’s fast-paced market environment, consumers expect products to be available instantaneously. By decreasing lead times, you will be providing consumers with your product sooner and cater to their need for instant gratification.
To meet consumer demands many companies that choose to manufacture overseas find themselves needing to keep a large inventory stored in Australia anyway. This method can be both costly and risky. Meanwhile, manufacturing within Australia allows companies to more efficiently manage their product’s supply and demand in the market.
4. Environmental Impact
Manufacturing in Australia is much eco-friendlier than choosing to manufacture overseas. Many forms of shipping, particularly ocean transit, produce large amounts of greenhouse gases which in turn creates a large carbon footprint. By choosing to boycott harmful and unnecessary forms of international transport for environmental reasons, you can sell the idea of environmental consciousness as part of your company’s image.
Many customers have a hard time trusting the ethical and environmental practices of companies located overseas. Choosing to manufacture internationally may tarnish your brand image and make consumers less likely to buy from you. Environmentally sustainability is a trend that is continuously growing and associating your company alongside it may have significant benefits.
5. Standards of Safety & Quality Control
Being close to your manufacturing facility will ensure that you have better control over the production process and the quality of your product. If any problems should arise then having your manufacturing facility nearby allows you to immediately contact and correct the issue, which will save you valuable time and money in the overall production process.
Australian manufacturing also allows you to be confident within the onsite safety practices of your chosen facility. Australia has enforced safety regulations that many manufacturing facilities overseas don’t adhere to. These help to protect all Australian workers of any risk or injury while working on your production.
6. Our Customer Support
When you choose to use a manufacturing facility overseas, you will often experience a disconnect between your business and theirs. This disconnect may occur in the form of a language barrier or simply, the ability to understand and accommodate the needs of your business.
Here at Dienamics we are incredibly passionate about manufacturing products and ensuring your business succeeds. Our team is highly qualified and enthusiastic about working alongside your company to bring your idea to life, we offer the solutions to meet all your requirements. The personalised services and support that we offer simply cannot be replicated by any company overseas.
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