Manufactured Products

by: JP Book

I love manufactured products. I like things that I can touch, hold, and use. Good, old fashioned, solid products. I used to work for a compact disc company and enjoyed walking through the manufacturing floor and watching the molding machines run. Robotic arms moving solid discs of plastic from one step to the next until you had a shinny cd loaded with music. Tangible, you can put it on the shelf, products. Manufactured products are great until you start to sell them for yourself. Then you find out everything entailed with the good ole manufactured product.

Manufactured Product

The problems I found in dealing with manufactured goods are:

• They take up space.
• The bigger the item the more space required.
• They take up money.
• You have to pay for them to put them in inventory.
• Inventory can go bad.
• Inventory disappears.
• You have to pay someone to deal with the inventory.
• They take up time.
• You have to move them around.
• You have to receive the product.
• You have to ship the product.
• You have to protect the product.

I sell a number of manufactured products in online stores so I definitely think there is merit in handling tangible goods. I just think it’s good to know about the potential pitfalls before getting into this type of business. If you are set on having a store that sells your products you may also want to look into reselling products for wholesalers that will handle the backend processes and storage.